Kids can develop OCD and anxiety disorders just like adults can.

But when it happens to kids, it tends to look a little bit different,

and their experience seems to be a little bit different than ours.

So today we're going to look at the difference between a child's experience of OCD and anxiety

and adults' experience of OCD and anxiety,

and what that tells us about the process underneath the problem itself.

Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Anxious Truth podcast. This is episode 3.31. We are recording

in November of 2025 in case you are watching or listening from the future. Welcome. I am Drew Insalada, creator and host of the Anxious Truth podcast. I'm a therapist specializing the treatment of anxiety and anxiety disorders practicing in New York State. I am also a former sufferer or the very things we talk about here on this podcast, an author, a psychoeducator, a public advocate for people who are struggling with anxiety and OCD and related issues. So if you are new to the Anxious Truth podcast, you just sort of stumbled in today accidentally. Welcome. I hope we find this episode and everything else helpful. And of course, if you are a returning viewer or listener, welcome back. I hope today is useful for you and thank you for spending some time. Today we are going to talk about the

presentation of OCD and anxiety disorders in children and how their presentation and their

experience seems to be a little bit different than ours. So we have the same diagnoses,

the same mental health issues, but it looks and feels a little bit different for a kid than it

does for an adult.

So this episode is not just for parents of children with anxiety problems or children with anxiety problems.

It's really for anybody who deals with these problems in general because the difference

between a child's experience and an adult's experience and the very same problem tells

us something about the process that drives

OCD, that drives anxiety. So I think it's going to be a really great conversation. We have Natasha

Daniels with us today. Natasha is a very well-respected child therapist that is also an anxiety

and OCD specialist. She has all the training, all the credentials from all the right places.

She puts out a tremendous amount

of incredibly helpful content on social media about this particular topics. We'll link all of that

in the show notes and the description of this video. So Natasha was nice enough to get together

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