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Stress and negative emotions can cause a child to feel physical symptoms such as headaches and abdominal pain.
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SINGAPORE – Arielle Nur Shafiqa Shafarizal was 15 when she started getting headaches during her year-end examinations in school. Sometimes, they would last for 30 minutes, and other times, as long as two to three hours.
Once, she had such an “immense throbbing headache” that she had to skip an exam.
