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Change Your Brain Every Day

What Are the Signs & Symptoms of Reactive Attachment Disorder?

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

When Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) occurs in children, it becomes very difficult for a parent to establish a meaningful bond with their child, which often leads to more problems for the child down the road. In this episode of The Brain Warrior's Way Podcast, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen describe what RAD is, and tell you how to identify the signs and symptoms.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman.

0:06.0

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0:49.6

Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast.

0:55.0

So we are back with Attachment Week and we're going to talk about reactive attachment disorder.

0:58.0

In a second, I'm going to have you talk about that.

1:01.0

But you, when I first met you, you kept saying I had attachment issues, which are not true. I'm heavily attached.

1:08.0

Till death do us part. I'm very clear about that took me a while to get attached but now you have

1:15.7

what you want yeah you kept running away and breaking my heart for like 18 months I

1:20.9

used to call her the black widow I'm'm not a black widow. And then finally she is. But then when I

1:25.8

I'm not triangle away and you'll find out.

1:27.8

Right. I call myself the widow tamer. I am clear till death do us part, my love.

1:36.8

Right, she says the only way she's running is if she's chasing me. You're not going

1:41.2

anywhere. I love that, but it took a lot of work and part of that came from your sort of anxious attachments.

1:52.0

Well part of it came from, let's just be really honest,

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