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LP2 Journal: Anxieties Going back to school is something that I have looked forward to for a long time. I stayed-at-home with my children until both of them went to school full time. At the back of my head I keep on telling myself that I will still pursue the career that I have always dreamed of and that is to be a Nurse. Back home, which is the Philippines, I already took up two years of nursing degree. Since I didn’t go back to school here in the United States right away none of what…
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Separation anxiety is a term I’ve always associated with my pets and not my children. I had a dog once that suffered from separation anxiety and anytime he was left alone he literally destroyed my home. I felt bad for having to lock him in a kennel when I left home, not realizing that he actually felt safe when he was in his kennel. Over the years, working for Head Start I realized that children actually suffered from this condition too, and it is our job as teachers to help the children feel safe…
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always shown some small indicators of anxiety. From the ages of 6-8, he saw a therapist to work through some of his anxieties. Additionally, he was diagnosed with a stuttering disfluency when he was five years old. Since then, he has received speech services through his school and through private providers. Thankfully, over the years , these services have greatly reduced his disfluencies. However, over the last several months our family has been going through some personal struggles related…
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only attended a few days of school, then had dropped out without consent from her mother, Amanda Wingfield. This was due to the anxiety Laura had faced when given the first speed test. She had broken down, became sick to the stomach and had been carried to the washroom, leaving Laura utterly embarrassed and to never return back to college. But instead of telling her mother about the struggle she had faced with anxiety at business school, she decided to fill her school time with activities…
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The Silent Struggle: Suffering with Social Anxiety According to Tim Kenny, “Social anxiety is one of the most commonly occurring mental disorders. As many as 1 in 10 adults have this condition.” It is not a widely known condition, and it is often confused with things such as shyness when it is actually completely different. Social anxiety is a disorder in which a person has an excessive or unreasonable fear of social situations. For example, just by me walking into a room of people, whether it…
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disorder is a anxiety disorder that causes a series of intense episodes of extreme anxiety. There arw two types, one without and one with agoraphobia. I had with agoraphobia. Growing up my I started letting my panic disorder define me. I stopped going out with friends, I didnt go to family events like thanksgiving or christmas, I was barely able to leave the house to go to School. I started to isolate myself from my friends and family. School was really hard because it was hard to go to school then i had…
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senior year of high school is the golden year of adolescence. After 11 years of school, senior year is that top of the food chain, the final year before adulthood. Leaving junior, I was ready for that golden year. My training for cross country was paying off and I was set for a season of personal best after personal best. I achieved my lifelong dream of joining the Varsity Singers. I was confident. I felt good. As an AP student about to graduate with a 3.8 GPA, senior year was going to be my year. There…
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describes an anxiety disorder, most people don’t know what it is like to experience a panic attack, but the people that have experienced it know how horrifying it really is. Anxiety is hard to overcome, but add things like school, sports, jobs and even relationships makes it harder to handle and control. The simplest tasks can be hard to do, like walking into class late or ordering your food at a restaurant can trigger an attack. An attack or “panic attack” is a symptom of an anxiety disorder. Common…
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using the “Chinese Parenting Style” because it can develop test anxiety in children, which can negatively affect their lives. Chinese parenting style known as an authoritarian parenting method uses shaming and punishment strategies, which lead children to the physical and emotional stress. Amy Chua states that Chinese parents strongly believe that their children can perform outstandingly if they work hard and that bad grades at school can be fix through shame and punishments. My mother, who used the…
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Liza Peglow Discovery through Journaling: Test Taking (pg. 272) Test anxiety is a reality I am all too familiar with; in fact, I believe I experience test anxiety before, during and after each test I take, right up until I receive my grade for the test. My specific test taking fears are usually fears of failing and then fears of the consequences of failing. For instance, if I fail a nursing exam then I have to withdraw from the class and start all over again the following semester that is only…
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