As well as these emotional feelings, people with anxiety might also experience physical (body) sensations such as a racing heart, breathing fast, sweaty hands, dry mouth and feeling shaky. It's better to recognise their anxiety and suggest solutions to help them, so they can go to the sleepover with a plan in place. Personally I feel Anxiety UK offers a fantastic service which fills that much needed gap between being referred to NHS and your actual appointment time which nowadays due to Covid can be up to a year in waiting time. This is not an exhaustive list; young people will experience other types of worry and symptoms which may not be included on this guide.

Jain and Tsabary suggest the 'best case-worst case' scenario exercise to help a child more accurately assess risk and helps prevent them from "over-worrying. Jain says this also helps children get back a sense of wholeness, another superpower they are born with.

Instead of beating yourself down you say, 'I'm such a creative person, that's why I have so many ideas, I'm not over thinking, I'm over creative. This book provides a lot of useful information about why we experience anxiety as well as several different types of techniques to help manage and lessen anxiety. It’s simple, has practical activities that you can easily implement and above all make you feel like there is something you can do to help your child at home while you wait in that long queue for professional support.

Jain says exploring different outcomes helps a child better assess the real probability of something happening.If you are reading this review and are at breaking point, like we were, I totally sympathise with you, anxiety is hard, really hard. They suggest parents look at the elements that put that child in flow and see if they can recreate some of those aspects in other parts of their life. It is common for children and young people to experience worry as they develop through childhood and adolescence.

Obviously cannot cover everything with regards to helping parents, carers or guardians manage their own worries/anxiety, particularly if they may benefit from their own support. Tsabary says adults often think terms of dualities: positive or negative, success or failure, good or bad. I have already seen a change in my daughter, she still has plenty of anxiety driven moments but I’m better able to guide her through them. If your child has worry, stress, or anxiety that seems too hard for them to handle, talk with your child's doctor or a mental health doctor.I'm about a third the way through a 16-week program and the benefits and rewards are already coming through. Our helpful video below shares some top tips to help you stay calm and matter of fact and help them deal with fear.

The Anxiety UK team is very professional and helpful and I was actually recommended by a friend who also had a positive experience with their CBT. Although anxiety feels horrible, remember these feelings will pass and the physical sensations cannot harm you. Significant impact on health and wellbeing such as not sleeping or eating for a sustained period of time.

She says lots of teachers and adults already say things to children like "Don't say, 'I can't do it right. Children often find change difficult and may become anxious following a house move or when starting a new school. And because we are illiterate to our emotions, we don't understand how to feel and how to be," Tsabary says. Tell someone how you are feeling no matter what your worries are, even if you are worried about doing so.