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[quote=Anonymous]I agree that it sounds normal. You can start teaching her skills that will help like evaluating the situation critically to see if her worries/anxiety about it is in proportion to reality, don't catastrophize or extrapolate, do some positive self-talk, replace nagging worried thoughts with something happier, and personify her worry (or self doubt) and talk about how she is stronger than it. (Draw a picture of it, give it a name and then tear up the picture, or have her draw herself even bigger with a superhero cape defeating Wanda the Worries, eg.) Also validate her feelings without validating the content of them. "I can see how upset you are about this." not "You have nothing to worry about!"[/quote]
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