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Reddit mentions of What to Do When You Worry Too Much: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety (What-to-Do Guides for Kids)
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What To Do When You Worry Too Much is a great book for her to read together with you. There's another one in that series that focuses on anger as well.
My daughters went through the exact same thing. It started all of the sudden when one of them was afraid for us to leave them at age 7 for the first time in her life. Then it turned into "bad thoughts" and not wanting to go to school, etc. I have twins and both of them went through this at different times but it seems like it is something about 1st grade - 3rd grade where this is really common. Out of sheer desperation, I bought the book "What to Do When You Worry Too Much" on Amazon. It is an interactive book for kids that talks about strategies for not letting their worries grow, saving their worries for one 15 minute time period in the day and resetting their system. It really helped both of my girls, and pretty quickly because they felt like they finally had a strategy or something that could help them. I hope that this helps you!
https://www.amazon.com/What-When-Worry-Much-What/dp/1591473144/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=Worry+book&qid=1574100550&sr=8-3
Anxiety seems likely to me. I would try using a mindfulness app with her (we like BreatheKids) to start. I also highly recommend these workbooks for kids dealing with anxiety and perfectionism:
What to Do When You Worry Too Much: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety (What-to-Do Guides for Kids) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1591473144/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_4H9PDbREVBS1C
What to Do When Mistakes Make You Quake: A Kid's Guide to Accepting Imperfection (What-to-Do Guides for Kids) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1433819309/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_3I9PDb63TQM42
My daughter has severe anxiety that requires therapy and meds, but she also found these books to be helpful.
Mental health and addiction usually go hand in hand. There are no many who have an addiction who don't have a mental health challenge.
I have anxiety and my childhood was similar to what you are writing. I was a horribly anxious kid, and when I felt totally out-of-control that sometimes led to anger/frustration. I couldn't stay home alone, go to parks, or "scary" places even with a parent without freaking out. I did okay socially, but worried a lot about rejection and was never a social butterfly. That being said, I was ultimately really well behaved. I've never been formally diagnosed on the spectrum, but I definitely present with some mild sensory-related symptoms - likely related to the anxiety. I needed to learn how to effectively communicate worries and have a parent who listened without enabling. Self-awareness of emotions has been life changing.
While I don't think medication is a terrible thing, it should be a last resort. How is her diet? How is her sleep? Are you supplementing her diet at all - omega, magnesium (Natural Calm for Kids) and vitamin d can be helpful for anxiety? What coping mechanism is she practicing? How self-aware is she of the anxious feelings/emotions? How well does she communicate? How well do YOU communicate and work WITH her to solve "problems"?
Have you considered introducing her to a book-club or similar extracurricular to promote social exchange and keep her busy? The less-busy (and I don't mean relaxation time)I am, the more time anxious thoughts have to set in.
Since she loves reading, I suggest:
Remember she is also going through puberty, which is a particularly rough time for us clinically anxious folks. Hormones still make me go from mentally-healthy to mentally-ill for a couple days every month.
I work in special ed, and one of my students is an autistic girl in 5th grade who, if she's gotten her work done, gets to end her day by watching cat videos on YouTube. No matter how awful the day has been, watching her sitting there in hysterics laughing at funny cat videos online, I just can't help but smile and think it's all kind of worth it to see her happy and wanting to share her funny cat videos with her friends.
My under $10 item would be this kids book which teaches kids cognitive-behavioural techniques for dealing with anxiety. I'm hoping to be teaching next year, and I have a feeling that this would be an excellent book for my class, to give them ways of dealing with test anxiety and social anxiety and tools that will benefit them in the real world (in situations like preparing for interviews).
Also, my husband has an anxiety disorder and has been through cognitive-behavioural therapy, and I was a psychology major in college, so this strikes me as something that would be interesting and useful to have around anyway.
Also also, if Harry Potter is life, I propose a discussion on which book series is death (no saying Twilight - too easy).