{"id":29161,"date":"2025-09-21T12:20:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T12:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/29161\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T12:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T12:20:06","slug":"teen-social-anxiety-crochet-calming-exercises-and-trusted-adults-can-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/29161\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen social anxiety: Crochet, calming exercises and trusted adults can help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 In secondary school, Ms Sara Cher was far from a shrinking violet. She asked questions in class and was an active member of the drama club, her co-curricular activity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">When she started experiencing social anxiety and panic attacks in Secondary 3 \u2013 sometimes slipping out of lessons to hole up in the school toilets for more than an hour \u2013 people around her thought she was \u201cfaking it\u201d, recalls Ms Cher. <\/p>\n<p>ST Smart ParentingChildren and youthMental healthFamilies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINGAPORE \u2013 In secondary school, Ms Sara Cher was far from a shrinking violet. She asked questions in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":{"0":"post-29161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}