Someone on mn recommended this book for my dd1, who is a real worrier, gets very anxious about all sorts of things and it all takes over sometimes. She's 7, and lately I pick her up from school each day in tears because she gets convinced that something awful will have happened to me during the day, or I've forgotten her, died, been kidnapped etc etc.
What to do when you worry too much
I just want to say thanks to whoever had suggested it, and pass on the recommendation because it's really good. Dd has been going through it and it's so clear and easy to understand, she's completely gobsmacked that someone KNOWS how she's feeling.
She came in to me and explained how her worries were like tomatoes and she'd been growing them, but she was going to stop feeding them and thinking about them and instead only think about them in 'worry time' and could I spend 15 minutes each day talking to her about them and she'd try not to think about them all the time the rest of the day.
She went on to tell me, all glassy eyed, that her worry was like a bully and it was being mean and ugly and lying to make her scared but now she was going to tell it to go away and get lost!
I was really lost for words! Going to work through the rest of the book with her, but just wanted to pass it on in case there are other worriers out there who might relate to it too.