PSP 217: Helping Kids Who Struggle to Eat with ARFID and OCD

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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🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

OCD is scary enough, but when it starves your child it is alarming. That is how it feels when OCD goes for the one thing your child can’t live without - food.

In this episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast I talk about ARFID and OCD. ARFID stands for Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder and OCD likes to partner with it. I open up about my son’s ongoing struggle with restrictive eating, our journey and what steps we have taken to help him.

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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	Well, hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast.
0:29.5	Today I'm going to be talking to you about an issue that is unfortunately very dear to my heart.
0:35.5	I use the word dear loosely.
0:38.0	It is a struggle and that is the difficulty when you have a child with OCD who can't eat.
0:45.2	There is nothing more basic than eating.
0:49.1	It's a life skill that needs to kind of happen.
0:51.6	And when OCD attacks that, all bets are off.
0:55.0	It is an uphill battle.
0:57.1	It is very, very difficult.
1:00.3	And I haven't done a lot of episodes.
1:02.8	I think I've only done one episode on Arvid,
1:05.5	partly because it's such a personal, ongoing struggle in my family.
1:10.9	I felt like I couldn't really speak on it.
1:12.8	But I was on a road trip with my kids.
1:16.8	This is kind of funny.
1:17.9	I was on a road trip with my kids.
1:19.7	We were on our way back yesterday and I said,
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