PSP 150: Do I Tell My Child They Have Been Diagnosed with Anxiety or 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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🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Often one of the initial struggles parents face when their child has been diagnosed with anxiety or OCD is what to tell their child. Do they even tell them at all? If they do, is it going to help or hurt the situation?I do have some strong opinions about this topic. I go into what I think and why I view it this way in my latest episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast.If you are on the fence about how to talk to your child about their anxiety or OCD, this podcast episode is for you!***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
0:16.1	podcast. I hope you're doing well today and I hope you caught last week's
0:21.2	episode. It was a good one. I got a lot of good feedback
0:24.3	about that. I had Dr. Josh Spitalnick on the show. I really really like talking to
0:30.0	him. He has a similar style and I just like the way he approaches anxiety. So check that
0:36.2	out if you didn't hear it. We were talking all about health anxiety. We were talking about
0:40.0	how physical symptoms show up for our anxious kids and how we kind of have to
0:46.4	approach them in a counterintuitive way. So that was episode 149. Check it out if you
0:51.2	have it and I did forget to mention during that episode that he did
0:56.2	stick around and recorded a separate video for the AT parenting community on separation anxiety and some pointers and some highlights on how parents should help their kids with separation anxiety.
1:10.5	So if you are in the AT parenting community, definitely check that out.
1:14.4	You will find that if you go to the dashboard, you'll find it on the expert spotlight page.
1:19.8	So I want to talk today about diagnoses. I did get somebody contact me a parent
1:28.4	contact me and asked me to do a podcast on whether it's a good idea to tell your child they have anxiety or OCD,
1:37.6	to let them know that they have an anxiety disorder or OCD disorder.
1:42.3	Well, you don't have an OCD disorder, but you have OCD.
1:45.8	And I thought that was a really good topic because I have a lot of opinions about this and
1:52.4	it really does impact treatment and it impacts the child's
1:56.0	ability to progress. So we're going to get all into what my thoughts are on that
2:00.0	topic and I want to thank the parent who brought that topic to my attention because it's really helpful when I hear about the
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