CHICAGO - A time-tested antidepressant sertraline (SSRI) with three month course of psychotherapy significantly minimize children’s anxiety disorders, one of the most common psychiatric illnesses in kids, the largest research of its kind reported.

The research also provides relief to parents worried about, putting their kids on high potency drugs. Therapy alone is quite effective.

Combination of drug sertraline with psychotherapy worked best. But each method alone also had some benefits, said Dr. John Walkup, lead author of the research. It’s estimated that anxiety disorders affect up to 20 percent of U.S. children and teens.

“In many cases, symptoms almost disappeared in children previously so anxious that they wouldn’t leave home, sleep alone, or hang out with friends”, said Walkup, a psychiatrist. “What we’re saying is we’ve got three good treatments,” he said.

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No doubt, there is an individual in every child and children life takes a shape with the bend of their natural personality and with their surrounding environment that includes parents too. It has been observed that parents provide different handling to boys and girls right from the time of birth. For instance, parents, especially father tends to talk more softly to girls than the boys.

Author of “Boys Drift” Leonard Sax says “The wiring of boys and girls’ brains are different from the time of birth and parents raise boys and girls differently because they know that they are different.” …Click here to read more