Hi Simon,
That is an interesting point about girls vs boys talking about these issues. When your daughter was going through this, was she able to talk with you about it then or does she find only now, looking back, she is able to talk about the anxiety?
My son was able to talk at one stage with some guys he played games with on line about anxiety and not really surprising, a couple of them suffered the same. With his friends at school he found it impossible. No kid wants to admit to anxiety.

I know many on here find their sons or daughters not really able to communicate what the problem is and are often reluctant to accept or receive help. I wonder on average if girls accept help more? My son has on occasions accepted help and support and at other time refused it but whenever I wanted to talk to him about strategies or ways forward, he shut down and he still does. He gets annoyed if I bring up anything related to his anxiety. Was there a turning point for your daughter in regard to this?
Take care,
Linda xx

The odd thing is that she thinks now she was able to talk about her issues, but she was very self-protective then, mainly because she found no one understood the problem she was facing.
Having said that, she did, very bravely, write an article for her school magazine.