PSP 329: What to Do When Your Child with OCD or Anxiety Won’t Discuss it
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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🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Often parents give up before they even start because their child with OCD or anxiety refuses to talk. It is easy to think there is nothing you can do if you can’t get your child to discuss their anxiety or OCD.
But there is always a place to start, always.
Kids refuse to talk about anxiety or OCD for various issues. Here are some common ones:
-They have a hard time expressing their emotions in general
-They are embarrassed about having anxiety or OCD
-They think you’ll force them to work on their issues
-They don’t fully trust you or your reactions
-They don’t want to burden you or increase your anxiety
-They are worried about what you’ll think
-They have a stereotypical view of these issues which causes shame
So where to start? The first step is to figure out why the shutdown is occurring. Does your child struggle communicating with you in general? Do they have a hard time expressing difficult situations? Or is this specific to just anxiety or OCD struggles?
In this week’s episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast we discuss reasons why kids refuse to talk about anxiety or OCD and what to do to help them move forward.
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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 another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. |
| 0:29.9 | Today we're going to be talking about what do you do when your child with anxiety or OCD |
| 0:35.6 | refuses to discuss it? |
| 0:38.0 | Often that just stops us in our tracks. |
| 0:40.7 | I've worked with so many parents, so we'll just say, I can't do anything that your resources |
| 0:44.9 | are telling me to do or that your class is telling me to do because my child won't even |
| 0:50.0 | talk about anxiety or OCD. |
| 0:51.6 | They go running in the other room, maybe even, if I bring up anxiety or OCD, they get angry |
| 0:56.6 | and yell at me if I talk about it, is that you? |
| 1:00.7 | There is always, always a place to start. |
| 1:04.3 | Sometimes it's not where we want to start and sometimes it feels like it's too far away |
| 1:08.4 | from our goal, but there's always an entry point. |
| 1:12.6 | And we have to look at what does our child need to move forward and what can I do without |
| 1:17.4 | my child's involvement? |
| 1:18.4 | And we're going to be diving into all of that and more in this episode. |
| 1:23.7 | Before we get started though, I do want to thank NoCD for sponsoring this episode. |
| 1:28.2 | NoCD offers affordable, effective, convenient therapy. |
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