PSP: 236: Do You Blame Yourself for 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
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
It’s hard not to focus on what we have done or haven’t done to help our child’s anxiety or OCD. It is a slippery slope and many of us fall into the black abyss of self-blame.
In this episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, I talk about why parents shouldn’t blame themselves for their child’s anxiety or OCD. I also talk about how this type of thinking can hold you, and even your child back.
Supplemental Reading: The Sexist History of Blaming Mothers for Mental Illness
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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 our episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. |
| 0:30.4 | I hope you're doing well, I always say that, and I want to talk to you today kind of about |
| 0:36.1 | that topic. |
| 0:37.1 | I want to talk to you about something that I think weighs a lot of us down, and that is |
| 0:42.6 | the feelings that are heavy and a lot of us have them. |
| 0:47.8 | We blame ourselves for our child's anxiety or OCD in all sorts of creative ways that |
| 0:54.1 | we find it is our fault. |
| 0:55.6 | I'm going to go through the many different ways that we can blame ourselves, and some of |
| 1:00.6 | them might be things that you're doing, and you don't realize that it's actually that |
| 1:04.8 | there is a blame there. |
| 1:06.6 | We can be naive to that. |
| 1:07.8 | We can be naive to even how we are shaming ourselves or making ourselves feel guilty. |
| 1:13.8 | And something recently happened to me a couple days ago, where this bubbled up, and I |
| 1:19.4 | realized, oh my gosh, I have some blame that I'm putting on myself. |
| 1:23.7 | I'm owning some things that I don't need to be owning, and that's why I wanted to do |
| 1:28.6 | this topic, because sometimes I try to channel whatever I'm going through. |
| 1:32.1 | I know it sounds kind of selfish, but when I talk from my heart and from what I know, |
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