PSP 050: Explaining OCD to People Who Don’t Get it: Helping Siblings, Family & Friends Understand OCD

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety

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

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

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🗓️ 16 January 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Do you know what is almost worse than having a child with OCD? Seeing your child be surrounded by people who just don’t get OCD. Siblings who tease their brother or sister for their “strange” behavior. Partners who tell your child to “just stop!” Relatives who think they are being helpful when they tell you “they’ll grow out of it.” And teachers who don’t understand how your child can have OCD when they just don’t see it. Explaining OCD to people who just don’t get it can be daunting. OCD can be complicated even for parents to understand. ***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
0:17.1	podcast. Today I want to talk to you about how do you explain OCD to people who don't get it?
0:25.0	Last week in episode 49 we talked about explaining anxiety to people who don't get it.
0:31.0	And I don't want to forget those that are raising kids with
0:34.4	OCD as well. So I thought I would talk about that and give you some pointers on
0:40.2	how to explain OCD to those that just don't understand it. Now unfortunately
0:46.6	there is a huge misunderstanding in general with OCD, a lot more than anxiety.
0:53.0	People have just this misperception about OCD.
0:57.0	They think it is excessive hand washing or over-organizing.
1:02.0	Some people think tapping and they think it's just a
1:06.2	neuroticism and they don't realize that that really doesn't encapsulate
1:10.9	O. C. D. At all, Yes, hand washing, it can be a component of OCD, but it doesn't have to be.
1:18.2	And people don't have to be clean and organized to have OCD.
1:22.2	And in fact, most of the kids that I work with
1:24.8	are not clean, they're not organized,
1:26.7	and most of them don't hand wash.
1:28.6	So to the general population, they would not have OCD. And I think that's what gets
1:34.3	confusing is when you understand OCD and you finally are like I totally get it. I
1:41.7	didn't know maybe you listen to some of my podcasts or watch some of my YouTube videos and you're like oh my gosh my child has
1:48.7	OcD I didn't know what OcD was or maybe you always knew what OCD was but the world around you does not
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