PSP 410: Helping Your Child with OCD or Anxiety When They Feel Hopeless

AT Parenting Survival Podcast: Parenting | Child Anxiety | Child OCD | Kids & Family

Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent

Parenting, Ocd Therapy, Ocd In Children, Ocd, Anxiety, Child Anxiety, Child Ocd, Kids & Family, Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Struggling with Anxiety and OCD can make kids feel hopeless. Hopelessness can lead to depression and a lack of motivation to work on their issues.

In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I explore what causes hopelessness in our kids with OCD and anxiety and what we can do to help them navigate those emotions.

📍 Come visit me in Arizona this weekend! Get your tickets to the OCD Gamechangers event at www.natashadaniels.com/ocdgamechangers

🌸 Fostering independence can improve a child’s self-efficacy and improve hope. You can take my FREE webinar on how to foster independent skills to crush anxiety and OCD by registering at www.natashadaniels.com/independent

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This podcast episode is sponsored by NOCD. NOCD provides online OCD therapy in the US, UK, Australia and Canada. To schedule your free 15 minute consultation to see if NOCD is a right fit for you and your child, go to

https://go.treatmyocd.com/at_parenting

This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be used to replace the guidance of a qualified professional.

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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,
0:23.4	and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. Today, I'm going to be talking
0:29.0	about how to help your child, teen, or young adult with OCD and anxiety when they feel
0:34.9	hopeless. Hopelessness is a really common issue and factor when it
0:41.1	comes to dealing with anxiety and OCD. And there's a lot of reasons why our kids feel hopeless.
0:46.8	And there's a lot of things that we can do to try to reduce that feeling. We only have our part
0:52.8	to play in this. So we can't reduce hopelessness
0:56.4	altogether, but there are things as parents that we can always do to try to improve things. And so today
1:03.5	I want to talk to you about what fuels hopelessness and how do you approach it with your child.
1:08.6	But before we get started, I do want to thank NoCD for sponsoring
1:11.4	this episode. NoCD offers affordable, effective, convenient therapy, and they're available in the
1:17.9	U.S. and outside of the U.S. You can schedule your free 15-minute consultation to see if
1:23.4	no CD is the right fit for you and your child. Just go to treat myocd.com. That's treat myoced.com.
1:30.6	I'll also leave a link in the show notes. If you are in Arizona or near Arizona, I'll be speaking at
1:37.6	OCD Game Changers this weekend. And I would love to meet you and have you come out to this fantastic event.
1:46.0	OCD Game Changers does,
1:52.2	they do events across the world. So if they haven't been to your estate yet, just reach out to OCD Game Changers and ask them to. You can go to their website at OCD Game Changers.com.
1:59.5	You can also donate to them because they're a nonprofit and they do amazing work,
2:04.7	spreading knowledge about OCD and normalizing it and really a grassroots effort to
2:10.2	ignite some passion in communities to get together and create a movement and what this event will be and what most of
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