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