Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you can help and guidance through the

chaos of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD.

This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of

a qualified professional.

Here's your host, child therapist Natasha Daniels.

Well, hello there and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast.

Today I'm going to talk to you about a side effect and impact that happens with almost

all of us who are raising kids with anxiety or OCD and that is the chaos that it can cause

or some disruption in your family due to anxiety or OCD and this happens for lots of different

reasons for different families but it's almost unavoidable.

I don't like to speak in absolute so I don't want to say it is not unavoidable but I would

say it's almost unavoidable to not have some sort of impact outside of your child related

to anxiety or OCD.

Things that cause disruptions in your relationships with family members, the peace in your family

and it's not your child with anxiety or OCD's fault.

We spend a lot of time talking about how it's the anxiety or it's the OCD but regardless

of the fact that it's not their fault, they're not doing that on purpose.

How do we address these issues that do impact our relationship with our partner, our relationship

with our other kids if we have them, the peace in the house, our ability to do things.

So I'm going to go through all of the different areas and after the break I'm going to talk

about some solutions in how we can approach these issues so that we can minimize some

of that chaos.

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