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What parents need to know and when to seek treatment

By Navneet Patti, MD
Psychiatric Center of Northwest Ohio at Caughman Health Center

Anxiety is a normal emotion essential for survival and functions as our brain’s inherent response to perceived danger. It facilitates the avoidance of danger in many scenarios, meaning it is adaptive and not necessarily pathological. 

While childhood and adolescence are a vulnerable age for the development of anxiety disorders, children also manifest many fears and anxieties that are developmentally appropriate. These include separation anxiety, nightmares, fears of thunder or monsters in toddlerhood, fears of ghosts, germs, and academic performance in school-age children, and fears of negative evaluation from peers in adolescence. These phenomena occur in most children over the course of their development and while they can be very stressful in the moment, they are often transient and do not necessarily need a child psychiatrist’s attention.

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By Cort Reynolds

BLUFFTON __ The Bluffton High School softball team fell behind big early yet rallied, only to come up just short 16-14 to visiting Columbus Grove in a Northwest Conference battle Thursday evening, May 2.