Excess responsibilities is the common cause that children are under pressure. It is a cause that gets to collect technical data where under a study it was valued that 10% of the child and adolescent population of our country suffered from anxiety and stress.
Other factors that can influence are the fast pace of our society, Some problem that occurred at home such as a death, a separation or the arrival of a new sibling, and even the abuse of new technologies can bring about this problem, but not all children are influenced in the same way, that is why we must be thoughtful and understand that These elements can be characteristic of psychological pressure.
How are your symptoms
All people when we are subjected to a level of stress makes our body respond varying our cognitive and reasoning skills producing in many cases a blockage that makes us diminish our capacities or in other words information is blocked in our brain.
A continued level of stress it will make children like anyone else start to suffer symptoms such as early psychosis or psychiatric disorders. Some begin to experience these symptoms for no apparent reason overnightRather, they have always had adequate and correct aptitude and suddenly collapse for no apparent reason. In other cases, parents begin to perceive these signals little by little.
The most recurrent symptoms are sleep disturbances, very tired, nightmares, irritability in everything that surrounds them with the sum tantrums, decreased school performance and of course notice that they feel sadness.
They can add many traumas that can affect these moments of pressure, parents should evaluate the child's psychology to see where the symptoms remit. If in any of the cases we do not find a feasible solution, we can go to a specialist.
Most important factors by which a child feels pressured:
It seems unfeasible for a child to never feel stress, but many times the reality is different and the fact of talking to them or taking them to a specialist shows these types of comments:
- They feel fear, anxiety and stress, these are the most recurrent words that children express. Exams and school pressure to achieve high marks on your grades is one of the most recurring problems.
- Another problem is when parents do not share their way of acting, in adolescents it is something very demanding when parents normally oppose the way they dress or comb their hair, in this case they feel they are not understood or loved.
- Have parents compare them with other classmates or with his older brother it is something that they cannot bear either.
- Cases of separation between parents can also create trauma because they believe they feel in the background and that they are not important.
Outside of these statements put into their mouths, they include many others that for personal reasons the children will not reveal and are some kind of neglect, sexual abuse or bullying.
How to regain calm
- The first task that you should provide children with is the possibility of participate to express your emotions.
- Act quickly. create an atmosphere of tranquility and dedicate a lot of love to them.
- Act quickly. be less demanding in some tasks but without lowering the guard that they have to maintain a discipline, you always have to look at the capabilities of the child and to monitor how far your limits go.
- Technology must be put aside as much as possible as leisure time and wait for them to have periods of rest and even boredom, They may be allowed to choose other activities that are preferred.
- Play creative games and relaxation techniques it is also part of good therapy.