The 18 Best Books About Anxiety for Kids of All Ages and Their Parents
My earliest memories of living with anxiety started when I was 8 years old. That’s when my brain started telling me I wasn’t enough. These thoughts caused me to develop an extreme form of perfectionism, and later an eating disorder and self-harm habits.
I’ve only recently begun to feel like I have an actual handle on my anxiety — 30 years later.
When I was a kid, everyone around me treated it like a weakness — me, being overdramatic or irrational or too emotional about everything.
As an adult, I recognize that none of that was true. I only wish I had been given the words to explain it then, for both myself and those around me.
More than anything, I wish I had known I wasn’t alone, that I wasn’t the only child in the world living with?intrusive thoughts ?and constant worries about fitting in.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),?7.1% of children between the ages of 3 and 17 have an anxiety diagnosis. That’s 4.4 million kids in the United States alone.
That’s millions of kids who could benefit from books that help them better understand what they’re dealing with and how to work through it.
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