PSP 407: Helping Kids with OCD and Magical Thinking
AT Parenting Survival Podcast: Parenting | Child Anxiety | Child OCD | Kids & Family
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
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🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
OCD can convince our kids that they have control over the uncontrollable. That is at the heart of magical thinking OCD compulsions. Magical thinking is when OCD convinces a person that if they do or don’t do something - they can prevent something from happening.
That something could be literally anything related to their theme. They might be preventing themselves from throwing up. They might be saving your life. They might be preventing a health issue. It is different for each person, but the compulsion is the same - do this (or don’t do this) or ELSE.
In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I’m exploring how magical thinking shows up in OCD and how you can help your kids overcome it.
YouTube videos discussed in episode:
When OCD Tells You to Do Something or Something Bad Will Happen
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the chaos of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD. |
| 0:12.0 | This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of a qualified professional. |
| 0:18.5 | Here's your host, child therapist, Natasha Daniels. Well, hello there, |
| 0:23.6 | and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. Today, I'm going to help you |
| 0:29.7 | build even more of an understanding of OCD. We're going to dive deep into magical thinking, |
| 0:36.9 | because a lot of our kids have magical thinking |
| 0:39.8 | compulsions and understanding how different compulsions show up. |
| 0:44.8 | The difference between a compulsion and an OCD theme, it's all part of my effort |
| 0:50.7 | to educate you and arm you with an incredible knowledge of OCD so that you are |
| 0:57.8 | really skilled at identifying and supporting your child. But before we dive into that, I do want to |
| 1:04.4 | thank NoCD for sponsoring this episode. NoCD offers affordable, effective, convenient therapy, |
| 1:10.1 | and they're available in the U.S. and outside of the U.S. |
| 1:13.7 | You can schedule your free 15-minute consultation to see if no CD is a right fit for you and your child. |
| 1:21.1 | Just go to Treat MyOCD.com. That is Treat MyOCD.com. I'll leave a link in the show notes. |
| 1:32.0 | Also, I have a new physical product. |
| 1:38.7 | I have an OCD card deck. And so if you have been wanting to find a creative way to build your child's OCD skills, and whether they are new to fighting OCD or are in the maintenance stage of OCD, I created this |
| 1:48.7 | card deck so that kids, teens, young adults, and even adults, it's really, there's no age |
| 1:54.8 | limit or gap in this card deck that you can pull a card every day and it builds a skill. And there's four categories |
| 2:03.1 | in the card deck. And so there are action cards that are based on ERP exposure response |
| 2:08.5 | prevention, the go-to method to help people with OCD. There is motivational cards to work on that |
| 2:15.0 | motivational piece. There are self-worth cards to work on the |
| 2:18.7 | self-esteem that often takes a hit. And there are support cards that incorporate the loved ones |
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