PSP: 262 The Wait-and-See Approach to Anxiety or OCD
AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
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🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
How often do we hear from family, friends and even doctors that we should “wait and see” if it gets worse. We should wait and see if the anxiety or OCD grows bigger. We should wait and see if anxiety or OCD becomes debilitating. We should wait and see if it is truly an issue.
It is like watching a tornado slowly approach your home and waiting to see if you really need to go seek shelter.
When we proactively help our kids with any anxiety or OCD issue we help them long term. The skills our children learn for anxiety or OCD also help them with life in general.
In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I talk about why the wait-and-see approach for anxiety or OCD isn’t only bad advice, it can be detrimental to your child’s long-term success.
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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 | Hello there and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. |
| 0:29.9 | Hope life is treating you well. |
| 0:31.9 | Today I want to talk about the way and see approach to anxiety or OCD. |
| 0:38.9 | The it's not that bad should we really work on it issue with anxiety or OCD. |
| 0:45.9 | And this is an important one because a lot of times we're told by professionals, |
| 0:53.2 | pediatricians, relatives, partners, it's really not that bad or you're making a mountain |
| 1:00.9 | out of a mole hill or you know I think it's kind of developmentally appropriate or it's |
| 1:08.1 | just one of their quirky things that they do and all of those might be true but is there |
| 1:15.6 | a benefit about being proactive in working on anxiety or OCD. |
| 1:21.5 | We're going to dive all into it so stay tuned. |
| 1:24.2 | But before we get started, a couple of announcements, one, this podcast episode is sponsored by |
| 1:30.1 | NoCD and NoCD offers effective, affordable, convenient therapy available in the U.S. and |
| 1:36.8 | outside of the U.S. and you can schedule your free 15 minute consultation to see if NoCD |
| 1:42.2 | is the right fit for you and your child. |
| 1:44.4 | Let's go to treatmyocd.com, that's treatmyocd.com, link is in the show notes. |
| 1:50.9 | And that's kind of an appropriate sponsor for this episode because we're going to be talking |
| 1:55.6 | about kind of getting an assessment early, getting started early and even if you don't get |
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