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01/04/2013
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Anxiety disorder is more common in children, and is twice as common for the disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism, both alone or together. And is appearing increasingly early age, according to the psychiatrist Fabio Barbirato, coordinator of Child Psychiatry departments of Santa Casa de Misericordia and the Psychiatric Association of Rio de Janeiro.
According to him, the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, at a symposium for professionals, this month, concluded based on studies of 20 years that cognitive behavioral therapy is as effective as drugs to treat anxiety tables, taking a little longer to give result, but without the side effect of relapse.
- Autism and ADHD are well cataloged and annoy parents and people who live with the child, she is internalizing and anxiety can be mistaken for ADHD, depression and tantrums - explains Barbirato, which starts on Tuesday in the House of Knowledge the course "Mothers and fathers Tigers - Stiffness and discipline in parenting."
- Anxiety in childhood can predict with depression, bipolar and panic in adults. The cause is genetic, but stress factors anticipate the symptoms, which appear only at 15 years of age for pre-school - he says.
Space to play
The accumulation of small tasks can be a warning sign that something is wrong. School, physical activity, music and English in preschool is too much, according to the psychiatrist, and generate unnecessary anxiety and competitiveness.
- Children have to play - says.
In the USA a 2010 study shows 13% of anxious between 6 and 16 years, and in the 1980s this ratio was 7.4%. In Brazil, data from 2004 identifies 4.6% of children between 6 and 12 years with signs of anxiety and 6.6% of adolescents between 12 and 17 years with the disorder, no previous comparative data.
Physical Symptoms
In general anxiety symptoms in children are physical, such as headache, fever, vomiting, tachycardia, nightmare. But vary according to age, and adolescents may appear as irritability. In pre-school fears are identified measurable, not like sleeping in the dark or not wanting to get away from their parents. The big difference between normal and pathological is the injury that the child has.
- This child, aged 3 years, afraid to cross the hallway to the bathroom, at 4, 5 years old pees in his pants rather than face the runner - exemplifies the doctor. - The advantage is that now we can diagnose and treat it very early, from the age of 3.
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