2024-09-10
32 分钟I'm Dr.
Becky and this is Good Inside.
So we have a preschool age kiddo and she is very bright.
She's very verbally precocious and physically she's a risk taker.
And I wouldn't describe her as being generally anxious in most of her day-to-day life,
but we have these moments of really intense anxiety that fall into a few different categories of anxiety,
I'd say,
where the kind of standard offering empathy and then trying to offer some support doesn't seem to get us to a place of helping her calm down when she gets into a spiral.
You're like, I'm doing the thing, but then it's not doing the thing it's supposed to.
Yes, exactly.
We're trying the thing, but she just gets locked into these spirals.
And we don't know.
what the right thing to say is.
So I would love to know, you know,
I understand that we might not get a perfect outcome from saying the right thing immediately.
But we might.
But yeah, but you're going to have a direction and some clarity.
All right, I want to come out and say this.
I have some pretty controversial ideas about anxiety.
I actually think so often we're told to do things when we're anxious or our kids are anxious that might like very short term feel okay but then very immediately after and long term make us more anxious.