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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD, age 15, is scared of ghosts. 
If there's a strange noise in the house, or leaves rustling against the window, she's crying. I don't know how to help her. She's seen ghosts on TV and is a deep believer in them. 
Thanks for any help in dealing with this. Sheesh, with all that's going on; she's doing so well academically in Zoom school; making new friends in a pandemic, and being a sweet, helpful teenager (some of the time)--THIS is what is making her crumble. 
And Happy Halloween, everyone. [/quote]

This is anxiety related. Strategies that work for anxious thinking should help her work her way through this. She needs to recognize that her anxiety “alarm” is faulty around this particular trigger and challenge her thoughts. At 11, my daughter learned about carbon monoxide poisoning and went through a period where she was convinced we were all going to die in our sleep. We did a few sessions with a therapist on CBT strategies to teach her about anxiety and it helped. [/quote]

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