Posted by Willow on December 2, 2001, at 20:06:16
In reply to Re: Is this part of the anxiety?, posted by sar on December 2, 2001, at 14:40:43
The above link is to a book titled Raising the Spirited Child and yes the cover picture is of me in my younger years. I do believe that you should be able to find it in your local public library. I gave the link so you would have the author name and title.
I read it years ago when I was much newer at this parenting. You may be wondering what a book about spirited children has to do with us? It has quite a few scenarios that I do believe you'll be able to relate to. The caption on the web site says it better: "More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic."
What is helpful? The only things that I have found to help me is to control my enviornment and better yet are drugs that quiet my senses. This comes at a cost though, but the trick is to find the balance that is acceptable to each of us as individuals.
> my mother used to come home from work and go into an frighteningly angry frenzy because i'd left my shoes in the hall (or anyplace but the closet). it took me awhile to figure out that it really had nothing to do with the shoes.
Sar I can't say that at your age I would have been able to acknowledge such a corelation. I do agree that anger can be a symptom of anxiety, but it does represent so many other things too.
For me it can be that I'm just exhausted, my children are good examples of this, when they're over tired they just become plain ornery. You've probably seen some of these children in stores. Sometimes it's a reaction to frustration, for example trying to force a square peg into a round hole. And sometimes, very rarely, I just plain wake up this way, on the wrong side of the bed.
(What is my point? I don't know! All I'm doing is thinking of Kazoo. I wish I could say Ka-who?)
Whispering Willow
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