PSP 295: Is Not Talking to My Child’s OCD Making Them Suffer?
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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🗓️ 3 January 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
I get this question so often I thought it deserved a whole podcast. One of the first things OCD therapists often teach parents is how to pull back their reassurance. This can make a parent feel very uncomfortable and I get it. I have kids with OCD myself.
Parents want to know they are doing the right thing, especially when everything feels counterintuitive.
In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I discuss how to pull back these reassurances in a loving, compassionate way. I also explain how this is helping 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. |
| 0:29.3 | Today I want to answer the question, is not talking to my child's OCD, making them suffer, |
| 0:36.6 | suffering silence, making them feel like I don't care? |
| 0:40.4 | What is it doing to them? |
| 0:42.0 | And that's a super common question I get from parents who are raising kids with OCD because |
| 0:47.6 | one of the first things that most OCD therapists teach parents is to pull back their accommodations |
| 0:53.9 | and their reassurance and not to talk to OCD. |
| 0:57.6 | And I'm going to talk to you today in this episode about, I'm going to flesh out a little bit more |
| 1:03.3 | about how to do it in a compassionate, caring sort of way for our kids because I do think |
| 1:10.0 | that sometimes parents hear this and they cut their kids off cold turkey or it's a turkey. |
| 1:16.9 | So like my New Jersey's coming out in me, I was I looked at New Jersey. |
| 1:20.4 | I was born in New York so there you know a little bit more about me. |
| 1:23.1 | And I also want to talk about how it's helping your kids long-term. |
| 1:26.2 | So I want to go and kind of pull the curtain back and explore this more thoroughly so that you |
| 1:31.6 | can feel good about what you're doing because innately it feels counterintuitive, it feels really |
| 1:36.2 | weird to not swoop in and give our kids the reassurance that we know will create some short-term |
| 1:43.2 | calm in their world. And so we will discuss that in detail and you're going to feel much better |
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