 separation anxiety disorder. When we talk about the separation anxiety disorder, actually we are talking about the disorder in which child manifests the excessive anxiety when he or she is away from his home or from the person with whom he has a strong emotional bound. So basically the child will react, he will cry, he will show temper tantrum when he is separating from his loved ones. Now this separation is not something like that in which we say that the parents are divorced and because of that one child has to live with the child, which we call single parenting. It is not something like that. In fact, this problem is reflected in the time when the child has to go for the momentary change in his life. For example, if he or she has to go to school, then the time period of going to school where he has to leave home and he has to get away from his parents and go to class, sit in class and sit there and attend his school. These kinds of separations are usually a problem for the child. These kinds of children manifest different kinds of symptoms. For example, they are clinging behavior towards their parents. That is, wherever the mother is going, her child is going to the shed or the father is going to the shed, so this sort of clinging behavior that the child usually manifests. Apart from this, the episodes of crying that you have have, parents will report a lot. For example, they will say that when we go to leave them to school, and when we start coming back from school, then that child will start to crying and they do not allow us to come back. Along with this, it will not be just that he is showing crying behavior or he is showing temper tantrum, where there is a whining, where he has to break things, he will not express any kind of behavior. In fact, he will refuse to go to certain time school. He or she is simply said that they do not want to go to school. So, for them, the momentary anxiety that they have to handle will be very difficult. Along with this, a lot of their performances related to school will start to be affected. Poor school performance will start to come. They will not be able to make friends. So, this kind of behavior will start to manifest. Now, why is poor school performance? Definitely when the child will not be able to focus in the class and he wants to go to his mother or to his father, then it will take more time for him to cry rather than to notice his class. Along with this, these children usually express physical symptoms as well. As the headache starts, early in the morning or they start complaining about vomiting. So, such physical symptoms are found in them. Along with this, the children who have separation anxiety disorder usually prefer to sleep with their parents or they sleep with their parents in their room. And if they do not sleep in their room, they prefer to sleep outside their door, at least in their bed. So, there is a lot of anxiety in them that this is their loved one, who has emotional attachment. These children do not stay away from it. Along with this, they have a significant problem that is the nightmare. Now, if we talk about nightmares, then these children in nightmares usually experience this kind of content, where they will see that they have been kidnapped or their loved ones have had an accident, or they have faced an accident or their parents have been kidnapped. So, in this night or night, they will experience this kind of content related to separation. So, whenever parents come to you and they complain about this, that the child is persisting in going to school or he does not go to school, then you have to first So, you need to be clarified this thing and after that then you will move towards something else. Thank you.