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The anxiety epidemic:
In 2020 the UK charity Mental Health Foundation surveyed more than 2,000 children and found 50 per cent of teenagers aged 13-19 were experiencing anxiety they found hard to control. 聽
Suggested books:
路聽 聽 聽 聽 The Anxiety Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help You Deal with Anxiety and Worry
路聽 聽 聽 聽Breaking free from Childhood Anxiety and OCD, Eli Lebowitz.
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/
Key points taken from UNWINDING ANXIETY: by Judson Brewer聽
Mindfulness is a key tool:
'If you feel anxious it鈥檚 an uncomfortable feeling so you start worrying about it. Worrying is seductive because it makes you feel like you鈥檙e doing something to get to a solution. All it does is to distract you from the negative emotion. It temporarily numbs the difficult feelings and feels more rewarding to your brain than the original emotion.'
'If your brain learns that worrying provides temporary relief, then whenever you鈥檙e anxious your brain will trigger worry. It becomes a compulsive habit over which you have no control, but the worrying makes you feel more anxious.'
路聽 聽 聽 聽The first step to understanding your own anxiety is simply mapping your own habit loops/ What kind of situations trigger anxiety or other difficult feelings?聽
路聽 聽 聽 聽Which behaviours has your brain learned to respond as a way to soothe or distract you?
路聽 聽 聽 聽What is the result of those behaviours?'
When you get into an anxiety loop use:
RAIN:
Resources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/23/health/mental-health-crisis-teens.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2021/08/25/depression-and-anxiety-double-in-youth-compared-to-pre-pandemic/?sh=22e0bfb2139f
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/feeling-anxious-dont-worry-its-good-for-you-s70jvtdbx
https://childmind.org/article/signs-of-anxiety-in-teenagers/
RULES FROM:
https://www.verywellfamily.com/establishing-house-rules-for-teenagers-1094873
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