Your daughter is conscientious, dependable, and eager to please. And you know for sure that she is smart. But when her anxiety ramps up, doesn’t it seem like everything briefly flips to the opposite?
She can become frustratingly uncooperative, to the point that you’re both held hostage by her fears. And she doesn’t seem able to think logically at all.

Everyone stays up later than me!”

If I make a mistake, they won’t like me anymore.”

I’ll never be good at _________.”

If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard a statement like the ones above, I’d probably be writing this article from my own private island somewhere in the Caribbean. Chances are that you would be too, because you have also heard them from your kids. In fact, we haven’t just heard them before, we’ve thought them ourselves!