PSP 040: How to Deal with a Partner Who Doesn’t Believe in Anxiety Disorders?

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety

Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent

Ocd In Children, Child Ocd, Child Anxiety, Kids & Family, Ocd Therapy, Mental Health, Anxiety, Health & Fitness, Ocd, Parenting

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🗓️ 31 October 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Your child is standing there, white-knuckled and pale as a ghost. “I can’t do it,” they whisper. “I’m scared.” You are about to offer words of encouragement when your partner chimes in. “Stop playing games and just do it!” You feel your stomach drop. You give your partner the death glare, but it has little effect as the tirade continues. “I’m tired of this! Just do it or you are grounded.” You stare at your child, wide-eyed and paralyzed with fear. You have two problems. A child with debilitating anxiety and a partner who doesn’t believe in anxiety disorders. What are you supposed to do with that?! ***This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be used to replace the guidance of a qualified professional.Visit my website at www.ATparentingSurvival.comInterested in my AT Parenting Community Membership? Click below to join us!http://www.atparentingcommunity.com Sign up for my weekly email newsletter:https://pages.convertkit.com/740ba8cd83/92109b7172Take one of my online classes:To view the entire online school library, go to:http://anxioustoddlers.teachable.comClasses include:How to Crush Social Anxietyhttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/crush-social-anxietyParenting Kids with OCD http://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/child-ocdCrush Moral OCD in Kidshttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/moral-ocdTeaching Kids to Crush Anxietyhttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/crush-anxiety Helping Kids with Anxiety or OCD Through Difficult Behaviorshttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/difficult-behaviorsHelping Kids Who are Scared to Sleephttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/scared-to-sleepHandling Sensory-Based Anxietyhttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/sensory-anxietyLibrary of Live Anxiety and OCD Classes (20 hours of class replays)http://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/libraryUltimate list of helpful anxiety products:https://www.anxioustoddlers.com/reduce-child-anxiety/ To join my private Facebook group visit:https://www.facebook.com/groups/ATparentinganxiouskids/For a list of my books visit:https://www.amazon.com/Natasha-Daniels/e/B011K5IIWAJoin the fun on my YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/anxioustoddlers78 Other social places I hang out:http://www.facebook.com/anxioustoddlershttp://www.pinterest.com/anxioustoddlershttp://www.twitter.com/anxioustoddlershttp://www.instagram.com/anxioustoddlers***

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0:00.0	Welcome to AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get supporting guidance through the chaos of parenting.
0:07.0	Here's your host, Child Therapist Natasha Daniels.
0:11.0	Well, hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival
0:15.8	Podcast. I got an email from a listener a few weeks back named Sarah and she was asking me to do a podcast on how to help when your
0:27.6	partner doesn't even believe in anxiety and I thought that is a great topic because I deal with that all the time in my practice.
0:38.0	That is incredibly common. That one partner, now I'm not going to be sexist, but honestly like statistically that tends to be the male in the relationship.
0:50.0	Not always. I have had quite a few moms that I can think of over the last decade or two that were the one that didn't believe in anxiety.
0:58.0	But more often than not, the dad has a hard time believing in anxiety.
1:03.3	You might be a dad and say, hey, it's my wife.
1:05.4	Totally cool.
1:06.4	I believe that that could happen too.
1:07.9	And it does.
1:08.9	But Sarah wanted some suggestions on how to deal with her husband and his lack of understanding, thinking that anxiety disorders just don't exist.
1:19.0	Now that is a very big deal for many reasons. One, well it's kind of a marriage buster.
1:25.1	Is marriage? I don't even know why I just said that. I don't know what marriage
1:29.2	buster is. But it can really hurt marriages because if you love your children and you want to parent them in the best way possible and you know they're suffering either because you just get anxiety or you've had anxiety or you have anxiety and
1:46.8	your partner is approaching it in the completely wrong way. That can be a big damper on the relationship in general, so it can impact a
1:55.6	marriage. Secondly, it can also really do some damage to the anxious child because
2:02.0	how you parent an anxious child is very different than how
2:06.0	you would parent a child that's not anxious and some parental approaches are counterintuitive.
2:13.3	I kind of brainstormed in my head
2:15.2	and I was like, what are the things that I hear
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