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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are the evidenced based therapies for anxiety? People always say do your research. But I’m not a scientist. I don’t understand what research papers say. [/quote]

I just posted but according to our psychiatrist meds + therapy. (True for adults too) [/quote]

OP here - so would this be anxiety medication in addition to ADHD medication? Seems like a lot at once. And the dr who performed the neuropathy is hopeful treating the ADHD will largely address the anxiety. [/quote]

We have a very good psychiatrist who prescribes, and this is his approach:

First medicate whichever issue is causing the most difficulty.  For many kids with anxiety, that will be the anxiety UNLESS you think it's the ADHD that is causing the anxiety.  Start with one medication that tends to work best for the most kids, start low, and gradually increase until the symptoms are tolerable with only tolerable side effects.  Then you can start slowly adding in another medication to deal with the other problem.  
For my kid with anxiety and ADHD, we ended up dropping the ADHD medication for a while as it was hard to find one that didn't make the anxiety worse, or cause tics.  But fast forward a couple of years and the anxiety had largely resolved, in part with CBT/DBT skills training.  She now takes an extremely low dose medicine for the ADHD, and deals with the anxiety through the skills she learned in DBT.  
THere are ADHD medications that are less likely to cause anxiety -- but the nonstimulant ADHD medications don't tend to work for as many kids.  And finding a stimulant that doesn't make the anxiety worse is largely hit or miss. 
I'm not sure if you said how old your kid is, but my approach is as follows:  1) Help your kid with scaffolding to take off the stress and lessen the anxiety.  2) Don't sweat the small stuff.  If they aren't in HS yet, grades truly don't matter.  It's okay not to do all your homework or make your bed or whatever.  Let that stuff go, so long as it won't create long-term effects.  [b]3) Learn the skills that will happen lessen the anxiety.  There are a LOT of tricks/skills you can use to work around ADHD.  The more a kid learns those and figures out which ones work for them, the more at ease that kid will be in their own skin.  [/b]
I do question whether having a ton of therapies might be counter-productive, as it might make the kid feel that the ADHD is running their life.  Acknowledging it and learning to deal with it is helpful, but making their whole life about the ADHD and anxiety is probably not helpful.  The thing that helped my kid's anxiety the MOST was getting into a club at school that she was super invested in .... the more time she spent on that activity, the less time she had to run the gears in her head on over-drive about what she could've/would've/should've done.  
Just my two sense as a mom with ADHD with two kids with ADHD.  [/quote]

OP here - what are these skills/tricks? Where can I read more about them?
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