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Reviewed Anxiety Disorders Videos Links (viewing 1 - 5 of 28)How to Manage ADHD and Anxiety HelpforADHD Up to 30 percent of children with ADHD have a co-occurring anxiety disorder. Anxiety can cause children with ADHD to feel edgy, stressed out, tired, and tense. Anxiety can impact symptoms of ADHD such as causing decreased attention and concentration and resulting in more distractibility. What You Need to Know about Students with ADHD and Anxiety HelpforADHD Up to 30 percent of children with ADHD have a co-occurring anxiety disorder. Anxiety can cause children with ADHD to feel edgy, stressed out, tired, and tense, all which can have a negative effect on their school performance. For example, students with ADHD who have difficulty paying attention might have extra anxiety when it comes to quizzes and tests over material they missed. A child who has trouble with getting started may worry about finishing assignments within a specific time frame. How To Make Room For Gratitude In An Anxious Brain HealthyPlace Gratitude isn't a direct anxiety treatment, but practicing gratitude can reduce anxiety. Find out how to calm your anxious brain. How to Stay Calm When You Know You'll Be Stressed TED You're not at your best when you're stressed. In fact, your brain has evolved over millennia to release cortisol in stressful situations, inhibiting rational, logical thinking but potentially helping you survive, say, being attacked by a lion. Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin thinks there's a way to avoid making critical mistakes in stressful situations, when your thinking becomes clouded — the pre-mortem. "We all are going to fail now and then," he says. "The idea is to think ahead to what those failures might be."
Anxiety and Teen Girls with Lisa Damour, PhD American Psychological Association Anxiety among teens and young adults is rising, and studies have shown that it has skyrocketed in girls. One study found that the number of girls who often felt nervous, worried or fearful jumped by 55 percent over a five-year period. What factors are behind rising stress and anxiety in girls and what can we do about it?
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