ABSTRACT
Melissa is 9 years old. Her mother brought her to the clinic because, several days earlier, Melissa told her mother that she was afraid she was going to die. She thinks that she might die from getting sick, and she would “lose everything.” She also worries that she might have a heart attack when she’s older but “not now.” She worries that her mother might die, and that her father may get sick. She worries that her parents won’t come back when they leave home because something may happen to them. She worries about burglars “a little but not as much as about dying.” She also worries about vomiting and choking, and according to her mother, she has had two panic attacks.
