Worry worms in me- self-help exercises for anxiety in children and adolescents

Abstract

Anxiety is a mental response to cope with unknown situations and people. Often, we notice that anxiety results even when a person is in a known environment which could feel threatening to the person feeling the stress. Anxiety provokes various reactions and one of the many is worry, which is the topic for this paper. We will be discussing how stress in children and adolescents results in anxious thoughts which preoccupies their thoughts, and they worry for about everything from their looks to their grades. As this worrisome behavior continues to absorb them into a vicious circle of self-doubt; they start to perceive themselves small and insignificant when compared with others. This paper will discuss self-management, easy to follow techniques with self and with peers to calm oneself when anxious.