Mor jeg er bange

I Danmark har op mod 100.000 børn og unge en angstlidelse. I flere tilfælde er børnenes angst så voldsom, at de ikke kan leve en normal hverdag og hverken kan tage i skole eller fungere socialt. MOR JEG ER BANGE, skildrer livet hos tre piger og deres familier, som alle kæmper for at holde sammen på sig selv og hinanden i en hverdag styret af børnenes angst. I to afsnit følger vi børnene, der sammen med deres forældre deltager i forløbet Cool Kids, som skal hjælpe dem alle med at håndtere angsten og forstå de mekanismer, som gør, at stadig flere børn og unge rammes af angst.

In Denmark, an estimate of 100.000 kids and teenagers suffer from an anxiety disorder. Many times, their anxiety is at a level that prevents them from having a normal life with school and a functional social life. MOM I’M SCARED, documents the lives of three girls and their families, who fight to keep the family together, as their daily lives are controlled by the kids’ anxiety. In the course of 2 episodes, we follow the girls and their families, who have enrolled in the program Cool Kids, which is created to help them handle the anxiety and to understand the mechanisms that put more and more children at risk for the widespread disorder.