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[quote=Anonymous]My 7.5yo daughter has been showing signs of extreme anxiety for the past year and a half or so. Last year she started picking at her skin, causing sores that lasted for months. At first she hid them and once we discovered them we took a lot of steps to help her stop - lessening anxiety at home, stopping an activity that seemed to be stressing her, talking with the school counselor. We also motivated her to stop with something she really wanted and after a couple more months she had stopped.

Unfortunately, she is still showing moments of extreme anxiety like, for example today, freaking out about getting a flu shot in OCTOBER because her sister went to the doctor today and got her shots so the thought popped into her mind. She also gets extremely upset when thinking about other things that are in the future or aren't even an issue and if she stopped to think about them she'd realize they weren't - like an upcoming try out for a children's chorus (where everyone gets in). She LOVES to perform and is extremely outgoing and happy-go-lucky 98% of the time, so this kind of thing seems so incongruous to her usual personality.

I want to help her learn to curb the impulse toward anxiety. My MIL has extreme anxiety that borders on crippling and I don't want my daughter to end up like that. Should I consider therapy for her at this point? CBT or another kind? Anyone btdt?

Thanks![/quote]

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