Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get 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 want to talk about

contamination OCD because it is such a common OCD struggle, and it's also really misunderstood by a lot of people, including the

parents that I help in the AT parenting community. So I was thinking about this this morning.

I was thinking about what I was going to talk about with you today. And I thought, you know,

I really want to circle back to contamination OCD. And I want to, in particular, hit on some of the really common misunderstandings that often hold us back and get in the way of long-term progress.

But before I jump into today, I do want to thank NoCD for sponsoring this episode. NoCD offers

affordable, effective, convenient therapy, and they're available in the U.S. and outside the

U.S. You can schedule your free 15-minute consultation to see if no CD is a right fit for you and your

child. Just go to Treat MyocCD.com. That is, treat my

oCD.com. I'll leave a link in the show notes as well. So let's dive into today's exploration of

contamination OCD. So the first thing I want to say right off the bat is that OCD is OCD.

And a lot of times parents can get stuck on looking at the theme to the detriment of looking at the big picture.

And so understanding and labeling OCD, oh, this is moral OCD.

Oh, this is harm OCD. Oh, this is moral OCD, oh, this is harm OCD, oh, this is

contamination OCD.

That's helpful because, one, it's a bit of a shorthand when you're talking to other people

so they know what type of flavor is going on with your child, but they are all treated

the same.

It does help because if you understand moral OCD and harm OCD and symmetry OCD,

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