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[quote=Anonymous]He's seen a psychologist in NW DC and it's close to $300/hour.  "Thousands" isn't that many hours of therapy.  She has diagnosed him with "anxiety" but nothing more specific than that. 
He's never had full neuro-psych testing which I'm sure would be helpful.

I brought up the baseball thing as one time when his anxiety manifests himself.  He's a kid who lives and breathes baseball.  He loves it.  We don't push him to play.  We don't push him 
to perform.  Heck, I'd MUCH prefer he not play.  I could care less if he's an athlete.  It's just hard to watch him struggle when he's doing something he loves. 
He looks forward to a game all week.  Then something goes wrong (he misses a fly ball or whateve

And baseball is just one small component to this (and I probably shouldn't have mentioned it).  He's the same before big tests, or walking into unfamiliar situations, or with performing arts stuff. 
Basically, this is a kid who is fine 90% of the time when he's in his classroom routine, with his good friends, with our family.  But when he's asked to "perform" he's really anxious and this anxiety spirals 
into emotional dis-regulation that he can't get himself out of.  I know you're probably all thinking that I'm some tiger mom who is pushing him to perform.  But I really am not.  Which is what makes this 
all so frustrating.  He's been like this since he was much younger and we are so careful to not foist any expectations upon him.
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