Most neurodivergent children face lingering mental health challenges related to the pandemic, according to a recent ADDitude survey. Below, readers share how their child experienced lockdown and how they’ve coped with the changes since.
Social distancing and remote learning have largely vanished. The same cannot be said of the pandemic’s mental health challenges. In a recent ADDitude survey, 72 percent of caregivers said their child has experienced anxiety, depression, and otherin the last two to three years. Many attributed this to the pandemic and cited new or aggravated challenges like mood changes, sleep issues, and anger.
Several parents reported an improvement in their child’s symptoms, which seemed to subside with a return to school and social activities. Others said they have learned how to cope with long-term social, emotional, and behavioral challenges. Still, many are at a loss with how to help their child acclimate to an almost-post-pandemic world.on their child’s everyday life.
“My son’s anxiety has increased exponentially. He always struggled in school, but distance learning for third and fourth grade — two very critical learning years — caused him to fall even further behind, both socially and academically.He knows he isn’t like other kids and it has made him anxious and depressed.”— An ADDitude reader.
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