PSP 200: How to Tell When It’s Difficult Behavior or When It’s 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

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Your child is refusing to clean their room, go to bed or go to school. They are digging their heels in and it doesn’t look like they are going to budge. What are you supposed to do?

Well if your child has anxiety or OCD, you might want to take an extra step and ask yourself, “Is this behavior caused by their anxiety or OCD?”

Why does this matter? Does it mean you are going to give them a complete pass on both their behavior and the task at hand?

Not exactly. It means you are going to approach it from a different angle. An angle that will help build your child’s skills so they can learn how to manage their anxiety or OCD.

In this episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, I talk about how to decipher if your child’s behavior is caused by their anxiety or OCD struggles.

For more in-depth help on how to help your child through difficult behavior related to their struggles take my online course, How to Help Kids with Difficult Behavior Caused by Anxiety or OCD at https://atparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/difficult-behavior.

I’d love to invite you to sign up for my FREE 3-part video series: Self-Care for Parents Raising Kids with Anxiety or OCD. Learn how to shift your mindset, read your body and super size your support to be more effective in helping your child and yourself!

https://anxioustoddlers.lpages.co/video-series (for parents of kids and teens of all ages)

***

This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be used to replace the guidance of a qualified professional.

To get on the waitlist for my SPACE Online Study Guide Course, text the word SPACEPROGRAM to 44222 or click here: https://anxious-toddlers-llc.ck.page/7300c6ee54

Visit my website at www.ATparentingSurvival.com

https://pages.convertkit.com/740ba8cd83/92109b7172

Take one of my online classes:

To view the entire online school library, go to:

http://www.ATparentingSurvivalSchool.com

Classes include:

How to Crush Social Anxiety

http://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/crush-social-anxiety

Parenting Kids with OCD

http://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/child-ocd

Crush Moral OCD in Kids

http://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/moral-ocd

Teaching Kids to Crush Anxiety

http://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/crush-anxiety

Helping Kids with Anxiety or OCD Through Difficult Behaviors

http://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/difficult-behaviors

Helping Kids Who are Scared to Sleep

http://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/scared-to-sleep

Handling Sensory-Based Anxiety

http://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/sensory-anxiety

Library of Live Anxiety and OCD Classes (20 hours of class replays)

http://www.ATparentingSurvivalschool.com/p/library

Let me become your $5 mini-coach. Learn more here: https://www.patreon.com/Atparentingsurvival

Ultimate list of helpful anxiety products:

https://www.ATparentingsurvival.com/reduce-child-anxiety/

To join my private Facebook group visit:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ATparentinganxiouskids/

Interested in my AT Parenting Community Membership? Get on the waitlist:

http://www.atparentingcommunity.com

For a list of my books visit:

https://www.amazon.com/Natasha-Daniels/e/B011K5IIWA

Join the fun on my YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/c/anxioustoddlers78

Other social places I hang out:

http://www.facebook.com/ATparentingsurvival

http://www.pinterest.com/ATparentingsurvival

http://www.twitter.com/atsurvival

http://www.instagram/ATparentingsurvival

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the
0:08.2	Chaos of Parenting a Child with Anxiety or OCD.
0:12.1	This show is for educational purposes
0:14.3	and is not intended to replace the guidance
0:16.5	of a qualified professional.
0:18.6	Here's your host, child therapist Natasha Daniels.
0:23.0	Well, hello there and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival
0:28.0	Podcast.
0:29.0	Today we'll talk to you about a common topic and common question I get, which is, how can you tell the difference between just behavior, like typical kid difficult behavior, and behavior that is being caused by anxiety or OCD.
0:44.4	And this is such a common issue
0:46.8	because we really want to approach those things a bit differently.
0:51.6	And I'm going to go into in this episode why that is and how to spot the difference
0:57.4	so that you can have kind of a better handle on how to approach things that are going on in your house when your kids being oppositional or
1:05.2	angry or just a little stinker and you're not sure. Is this my child's anxiety or
1:11.3	OCD or should I just handle this like I would handle any other parenting issue?
1:16.0	So, before we get started though, I do want to let you know that my three-part video series on self-Care for Parents Raising Kids with Anxiety or OCD is back by popular demand.
1:28.0	I do this series twice a year and I haven't done it I think in six months and people have been asking about it
1:36.1	it only comes out like I said twice a year and it's really focusing on how to help you
1:41.9	take care of yourself but not in probably the way that you're thinking.
1:45.4	It is more about how to shift your mindset.
1:48.5	I talk about perception issues.
1:50.2	I talk about our own struggles, our own childhood, and how we view our child's issues.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.