My son (6) has anxiety...but he also has a weird autoimmune problem that causes his antibodies to attack his basal ganglia, so his anxiety noticeably increases when he's got strep. The first thing we notice when he's about to get sick is that he follows me around the house and doesn't want to be more than a few feet from me. Which is annoying because the other thing that happens is he develops extreme ADHD-like behaviors, extra disconcerting when he's always 2 feet from me and shouts "mom!" 200 times a day.
So it's hard to know if it's "real" anxiety, or this physical problem, or whether there's any difference...
This year the problem has become chronic because the infection has apparently colonized in his throat.
Anyway, once I've got this physical problem addressed I will definitely seek out therapy for both of us, since I'm starting to feel truly traumatized and I think he is too.
