PSP 247 When OCD is Misdiagnosed as Learning Issues
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
🗓️ 1 February 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
OCD doesn’t just stay in our home, it likes to wreak havoc in all areas of life, including at school.
OCD intrusive thoughts and compulsions can make a child look like they:
Struggle to read
Struggle to write
Struggle to do math equations
Struggle to complete assignments
Struggle with comprehension
Struggle with focus
Struggle with expression
Struggle with problem-solving
Sometimes these struggles look like learning difficulties, and often it is just that. But sometimes it’s OCD hiding in disguise.
In this episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast I discuss how OCD can quietly sabotage our child’s learning and how to identify if that’s an issue.
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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. |
| 0:23.0 | Hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. |
| 0:29.6 | Today, we're going to talk to you about something that I actually haven't talked about |
| 0:32.6 | before. |
| 0:33.6 | We should start to get kind of unusual. |
| 0:35.7 | And that is when OCD can actually be mislabeled, misdiagnosed, misinterpreted, as a learning |
| 0:44.6 | struggle for our kids. |
| 0:46.1 | And that's a really big, important problem, because I think that happens way more often |
| 0:52.9 | than it gets detected. |
| 0:55.2 | And it actually has been happening in my house, and you know, I always like to speak |
| 0:59.0 | from my experience. |
| 1:00.0 | And so I want to talk about how reading, math, writing, social studies history, I'm going |
| 1:06.1 | to go through all of them and talk about the many different ways OCD can show up as an |
| 1:12.4 | actual struggle. |
| 1:14.1 | But before we get started, I want to say thank you to NoCD, because NoCD is sponsoring |
| 1:19.3 | this episode, and they offer affordable, effective, convenient therapy available in the US and |
| 1:25.2 | outside of the US. |
| 1:26.9 | You can schedule a free 15-minute consultation to even just see if NoCD is a right fit for |
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