PSP 139: Did You Know it is OCD Awareness Week? What that Means for You and Your Child

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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🗓️ 15 October 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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I know there are a bazillion awareness weeks and months. Every cause, issue or disease has a color or a month. But I wanted to talk to you about why OCD Awareness Week is so important and how you can take part with even the smallest of gestures.OCD is one of the most misunderstood disorders. Which is sad considering it can be one of the most debilitating conditions a person can experience. Part of the reason OCD is so debilitating is due to the lack of understanding OCD. Kids are misdiagnosed or not diagnosed at all.Stereotypes perpetuate shame and guilt.People remain quiet out of fear of embarrassment and labeling.So what could help with this? Knowledge. Spread the knowledge in any way you can. You can check out all the inspiring things the International OCD Foundation is doing this week to bring OCD awareness out from the shadows by clicking here.Help your child.Use this week to celebrate your child. Show them videos and pictures people are posting using the hashtag #FACEYOURFEAR and #OCDWEEK to show them how other people are being brave in support of them.Have a movie night where you make popcorn and watch the documentary Unstuck: an OCD Kids Movie.Educate yourself and others by taking my free online mini-course, Misunderstanding About Childhood OCD. Understand Your Child’s OCD. Learn the Facts. Enroll and watch it here.***Parents do you need more support? Join my AT Community at: Http://www.atparentingcommunity.com Here’s are more resources I offer parents 👇🏻❤️ Get a free PDF on some of the most common reasons why kids are scared to sleep:PDF short link:Http://bit.ly/sleepfears My new online class “How to Help Kids Who are Scared to Sleep” is open! To learn more go to:Www.bit.ly/sleepclass19Sign up for my weekly email newsletter:https://pages.convertkit.com/740ba8cd83/92109b7172Subscribe to my Podcast: The AT Parenting Survival Podcast https://www.anxioustoddlers.com/podcast/ Sign up for my online class Handling Difficult Behavior in Kids with Anxiety or OCDHttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/difficult-behaviorSign up for my online class Crush Social Anxiety (for adults too)!Http://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/crush-social-anxietySign up for my online class: Teach Kids to Crush AnxietyHttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/crush-anxietySign up for my online OCD class: Parenting Kids with OCDHttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/child-ocdSign up for my online Class: Crushing Moral OCDHttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/moral-ocdFor more support parenting a child with anxiety or OCD visit:http://www.anxioustoddlerstoTeens.com Ultimate 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 AT Parenting online classes visit:http://anxioustoddlers.teachable.comFor my anxiety books visit:https://www.amazon.com/Natasha-Daniels/e/B011K5IIWAhttps://www.anxioustoddlers.com/parenting-anxious-kids-ebook/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 just want to talk to you about OCD C.D. Awareness because today is, well it's Tuesday, so it's already
0:27.7	started, but O. C.D Awareness Week is happening now from October 13th to October 19th if you're listening to this in
0:36.8	2019 because who knows when you're listening to this and I thought it would be
0:41.0	good to just do a full episode on just our responsibility and what we can do to spread the awareness of OCD.
0:52.0	Because a lot of us think that in order for us to spread awareness and
0:56.7	knowledge it means that we have to do something possibly out of our comfort zone. Maybe it's going to out us. It's going to
1:06.7	let other people know that our family is struggling with OCD or has been struggling with OCD or that you were struggling with O. C.D. or has been struggling with O. C. D. Or that your child is not
1:16.8	perfect. Or because they don't understand O. C. D. You worry about the stigma that
1:22.4	will happen if you advocate for OCD.
1:25.6	Because maybe your friends or family will say,
1:27.5	hmm, why is she sharing all this stuff about OCD?
1:30.5	So I wanted to talk to you about what you can do on any level to to spread information and to support OCD awareness because I think often it depends on our personality but I think
1:45.3	often when it comes to movements or advocating we think in in all's or all nots like either I'm all in and I have to do all these things or I can't
1:58.4	do anything at all you know or the problem is so big what will my little effort have on the big picture.
2:06.3	But if an ant looked at a carrot or a piece of cracker that fell on the floor and
2:11.2	thought what can I do with that huge cracker I can't pick it up. that
2:13.0	huge cracker, I can't pick it up, then there would be no impact the ants would not eat.
2:18.0	I have no idea why I'm talking about ants, but they get together, you know, and every single ant works together and about
2:24.0	they get together, you know, and every single ant works together and that leads to the ability to do
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