Children's Anxiety - Small Body, Big Fear

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Yesterday's session... "Children's Anxiety - Small Body, Big Fears"


Today's patient was a seven-year-old boy - small, thin, with a school diary in his hand and a small broken pencil in his pocket. The mother started crying as soon as she entered: "Doctor, my child wakes up scared, screams while sleeping, and locks himself in the room after coming back from school. This wasn't the case before... something must have happened!"


I looked at the child. There was a strange fear in his eyes - as if someone was sitting inside him, threatening him repeatedly. I approached him and asked in a soft voice: "Son... what scares you, does something hurt your head?"


He remained silent for a few moments... then slowly said: "My teacher gets angry with me. My friends take away my lunchbox... and tell me I'm weak. Am I... weak?"


This was the moment I call the child's soul suffering. I said very gently: "Son... the one who bullies others is weak. The child who tolerates... is brave."


He looked into my eyes for the first time - as if searching for belief.

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