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How a Child Psychiatrist Suggests Dealing with Really Scary News
By Daniel Amen — 2017
As a child psychiatrist for nearly four decades, I’ve seen that when children are also exposed to the never-ending negative news cycle—even if that just means hearing their parents talk about current events—it makes them feel unsafe, which is often manifested by sleepless nights, anxiety, headaches, clinginess, and belly pain.
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Safety is not the absence of threat, it is the presence of connection.
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