PSP 213: When You Hit Compassion Fatigue with Your Child’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

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🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

None of us signed up to raise a child with anxiety or OCD. It wasn’t what we dreamed of when we poured over all the pregnancy and parenting books. And yet, here we all are, trying to not only survive, but thrive with our kids and their struggles.

What happens when compassion runs dry? What happens when we feel resentful or angry at our kids or the situation?

You are not alone if you’ve experienced those feelings. In fact, to be real, most of us have at one point or another.

In this episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast I talk about what parental compassion fatigue is, what the symptoms are and how we can navigate through it.

To read the article by Our Small Hours, Can Moms Get Compassion Fatigue, click here.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through
0:08.1	the chaos of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD.
0:12.1	This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of
0:16.5	a qualified professional.
0:18.0	Here's your host, child therapist Natasha Daniels.
0:22.2	Hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast.
0:29.0	Today we're going to be talking about really interesting topic, actually an AT Parenting
0:33.3	community member asked me to talk about this or actually to bring an expert on to talk
0:37.9	about this, and I thought I could totally talk about this.
0:40.6	And that is compassion fatigue.
0:43.2	I really am not a fan of little like catch-all phrases or just quasi-disorders or labels because
0:52.1	I just feel like we live in a society where it's like a bunch of acronyms and disorders
0:56.6	and labels.
0:57.6	There's compassion fatigue, but what is behind that and what that means is actually really
1:03.2	important and a really good topic to talk about because parental compassion fatigue if
1:09.6	we're going to use that very formal language or just feeling like you're not very compassionate
1:14.8	to your kids, you're feeling drained and just tapped out.
1:19.3	I want to talk about that because I think that's not talked about enough and what does
1:24.5	that look like when you're raising a child with anxiety or OCD?
1:28.1	Because I think that it can look very different when we are dealing with those issues.
1:35.0	So we're going to dive all into that, going to go into a little bit about the symptoms,
1:39.8	I don't like the word symptoms because again that kind of pathologizes it, but I'm going
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