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How to Support Your Anxious Child 101

Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry

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What Does It Mean to Support Anxiety?

Anxiety is a part of your child's brain that is very bossy and demanding. Do the patterns that anxiety wants you to do, doing the behaviors that anxiety want you to do,. They decrease symptoms in the short term, but they strengthen anxiety in the long term. You're either supporting your child or you're supporting the disorder. When it comes to anxiety, your prefrontal cortex is the smoke detector. Your amygdala is another part of your brain, small, primitive, size and shape of an almond.

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