PSP 227: Why We Can’t Make Our Child’s Anxiety or OCD Go Away

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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🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

None of us like to see our kids suffer. That’s why it’s so hard to see our kids struggle with anxiety or OCD. It can consume their life and ours and that’s heartbreaking.

But no matter how badly we would like to take their anxiety or OCD away from them, we just don’t have the power to do so.

In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast, I talk about how we often try to make our children’s anxiety or OCD go away, and why it doesn’t work - and sometimes makes it worse. I also cover our role in their journey and the things we can do to make long-term prognosis brighter.

Also, thanks to those of you who have supported my son’s Etsy store and made him feel empowered and confident!

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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.
0:22.1	Well, hello there, and welcome to the episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast.
0:29.8	Today I want to talk to you about something that I feel like we all struggle with at some
0:33.9	point, at many points, when we're trying to raise our kids who have anxiety or OCD.
0:40.2	And that is wanting to make the anxiety or OCD go away for our child.
0:45.2	And so a lot of times we put the burden 100% on ourselves or we feel like if we can learn
0:51.2	all the things that we need to do, we can get rid of this annoying thing that's destroying
0:56.8	our child's happiness and our families.
0:59.8	And there's lots of different ways it shows up for each one of us, depending on our own
1:04.6	childhood, our own background, our own mental health.
1:08.6	But we want to help our child with their anxiety or OCD and we just want to take it away.
1:13.6	I'm going to talk about the different responses that each one of us tend to do at some point
1:18.9	or another.
1:19.9	I'm going to talk about why they don't work even though they seem very intuitive and what
1:23.4	we can do instead.
1:25.2	So stick with me and hopefully I will hit on something that you're like, oh gosh, yes.
1:31.6	That's me and I can hopefully inspire you to do something a little bit different that's
1:37.2	going to really help your child long term.
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