Re: Re: shivers/shudders (arlynn)

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Arlynn

thank you so much for your insight into this shiver/shudder thing. what you say

makes a lot of sense. my daughter comes from 2 overly anxious parents, it could

very well be her letting her anxiety out. It's true, as you say, each person

deals with the stresses of life differently, who are we to say (or to jump to a

conclusion) of what is normal and what is not? having said that, i have not seen

her to her shiver thing in over a week. Interestingly, I also took her off NCD

about the same time....who knows? But for now, she seems just perfect to me :-)

Thanks, Christie

Re: shivers/shudders

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> The shiver/shudder thing may be a healthy response to anxiety or

>

> surprise. If you think about a deer who was being chased by a

> predator, after the chase is over and the deer got away, it

> stops to

> re-compose itself and part of that is to shudder. It shakes off

> the

> deer's adrenaline and corticosteroids produced by the body in

> response

> to anxiety or fear or stress, literally shakes it out of the

> limbs. :-) My son does this shake-off the corticosteroids thing.

> His

> neurologist saw him do it during an intense neurological exam

> with

> lots of " look at this " and " listen to that " stuff that could get

> my

> son in an anxious state and the doc commented on how it's

> interesting

> that he does that at 5yo b/c children are typically trained to

> *not*

> show outward signs of anxiety. I told the doc that I fiercely

> defend

> my children's normal, natural reactions to life and do not go

> along

> with society's repression to force all emotions inward into a

> child.

> He just kind of looked at me, sort of in wonder that someone

> could be

> so firm against the norm but so right about emotional health of

> a

> child, LOL. I do love that doc. He's great. Then I had the

> school

> psychologist tell me the same thing. That my 5yo boy was

> standing up

> when called upon by his teacher and sort of doing a little jump

> up and

> down shake thing in place before coming up to the blackboard. I

> told

> her he was shaking off his anxiousness so he could perform at

> his best

> when called up by his teacher (who was wonderful). Well, she

> thought

> it was very cool too. I guess my lengthy point is that this

> shudder

> *can* be a healthy physical reaction from children who are in

> touch

> with their feelings. It can be necessary for people who get

> extra

> anxious to *do* something physical with all those

> corticosteroids they

> produce and shaking it off is a good way to re-center the body.

> If it

> happens *too* much, then the child is experiencing too much

> anxiety. B

> vitamins, sunlight daily, a bit of extra Vit.C, and if necessary

> a

> supplement called 5-HTP in small doses, might be helpful for the

>

> person to calm themselves. These vitamins are necessary for the

> serotonin and gaba receptors to do their jobs properly, which

> help to

> calm anxiety. Basically, we're all a little different in our

> chemical

> makeup and if our chemical ability to calm ourselves is somehow

> lacking, we can get too anxious about minor things. Best to keep

> our

> nutritional levels of these vital nutrients high so that our

> body has

> the best chance of combatting our daily stresses, good and bad.

> Also,

> learning how to calm ourselves mentally helps over our lifetimes

> to

> deal with our routine and out of the ordinary stress. And

> regular

> strong physical exertion that uses the large muscles, that is

> very

> important for a sensitive person's well being. The child who is

> showing this at a young age, she might just be a sensitive soul.

> Enjoy

> her and hug her and love her. You'll never regret it. :-D HTH. -Arlynn

>