So the question that you\u2019ve just asked me is whether there are what we might call \u201cdevelopmentally identifiable landmarks,\u201d whatever, to differentiate between say how a toddler might express stress behaviour versus a teenager. It\u2019s a difficult question and I\u2019ll tell you why. The first part of the question is yes. So typically what happens-let\u2019s take a toddler-is we\u2019ll see very pronounced changes in facial complexion and they might go very pale or very, very red and will have very pronounced changes in vocal behaviour, so their voice will generally speaking go up. They become very volatile, very labile is the technical term. They become very volatile and their emotions swing all over the place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So those are typical toddler into preschool expressions of this. One of the things that children are getting much better at is concealing these sort of raw emotions. So they\u2019re learning how to suppress their emotional expressions and so on. And by the time they are young teens, they can even look you in the eye. They\u2019ve gotten so good at inhibiting their anxiety, concealing their anxiety that they can look at you in the eye and even maintain a straight face. However, if it becomes strong enough, if the arousal is strong enough that older child or that teen will in fact regress to the level of a toddler. The behaviours will in fact regress as well. This is very difficult for parents for example who have an older child or a tween that is truly behaving like a young toddler but because of their age we insist on treating them as a young adult or whatever. But in fact in functional terms, in terms of what\u2019s happening in their brain, they are at a toddler\u2019s level. I would go so far as to say that older adults, could regress to the level of a toddler. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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