The Emotional Impact of Disaster on Children and Families
4. Children's Emotional Response to Disaster
4.8. Anxiety Disorders
Symptoms of anxiety may appear at all ages. Among the most frequent include:
- Fears (often of the dark)
- Irritability
- Restlessness
- Avoidance behavior
- Recurrent stressful thoughts or feeling of being in danger
- Recurrent images
- Attention, concentration, and memory disturbances
- Shaking
- Dizziness, instability 1 Tachycardia, dyspnea, chest pain
- Muscle contractures
- Gastrointestinal disorders (diarrhea, constipation)
- Sweating