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Everyone experiences feelings of sadness, anxiety and loneliness from time to time. But if your child has extreme moods that interfere with daily functioning, help may be needed.
Mood disorders include depression, dysthmia (a mild but long-lasting depression), schizo-affective disorder, bipolar disorder (often called manic-depression) and mania.
There are also anxiety disorders, which are identified when a person feels overly anxious, nervous or scared. These can occur in response to certain situations (going to school, for example) or they can seem to appear out of the blue. This category includes disorders such as specific phobias, separation anxiety, over-anxious disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
At Child Guidance &Family Solutions, our goal is to help your child maintain feelings within a “normal” range, so that they can avoid the extreme emotions or moods that interfere with daily living.
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