Скачать или смотреть Talking about anxiety or OCD differently

Anxiety and OCD are different and how we talk about them needs to be different as well. We often teach kids with anxiety that their brain is trying to keep them safe. This type of view doesn’t work as well with OCD where kids might be struggling with intrusive thoughts around harming the people they love as well as other taboo OCD themes. It doesn’t work when their just right OCD makes them get stuck on repeat for hours and hours at a time. The reason this analogy doesn’t work is because anxiety and OCD are physiologically very different.

That is why one of the first things I did in my new book, Crushing OCD Workbook for Kids, is give them an understanding about how OCD is giving them these unwanted and upsetting thoughts. We talk about stuck gears. We talk about a filter system that needs help. We don’t talk about how their brain is trying to protect them. The first step in crushing OCD is truly understanding it.

🌸 To get your copy of my new book: Crushing OCD Workbook for Kids: 50 Fun Activities to Overcome OCD Using CBT and ERP go to www.natashadaniels.com/ocdbook

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