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[quote=Anonymous]DD1 is 8.5 and has been in therapy for the past 2 years. We seem to think it’s been helping with her anxiety and emotional regulation but she still is prone to having large reactions to innocuous things and then it spirals out of control.

We have talked with her therapist and have seemed to rule out ADD or ADHD. She just seems to be a very overly sensitive first child who fits the psychologist mold perfectly for a first girl child. She is a perfectionist, has some anxiety, overly mothers her younger siblings, cannot stand losing, does well in school and is very afraid of getting in trouble.

While her “tantrums” have become less frequent they are more intense than when she was younger. I try my best to be calm in the moment but I too am human and sometimes loose my cool.

For those of you have be through this - how bad is it for me to get frustrated and upset in the moment but come back later and acknowledge her feelings and tell her that I am here for her and will always try and help her with her big emotions? I feel horrible that I can’t do it always in the moment but we seem to trigger each other with our emotions and I need to cool off before I am a ms to come back to her calmly. [/quote]

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