Obsessive Compulsive Children - How to Help Your Child With Their OCD

Obsessive compulsive children have the hardest time because they are not as readily capable of thinking logically when they suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. This is tough because sometimes they just don't have the experience and background to effectively convey how they feel or what they are thinking. One of the most important things that you can do with a child as a parent is to be patient with them. I have worked with parents of children and it's usually the parent that actually gets more frustrated because they want for their child to get better, but they are not being patient about it and this makes them uneasy. In order to expedite your child's recovery, you must be willing to go at their pace, not yours.

Working with obsessive compulsive children you'll find that sometimes they don't like to communicate the things that they are going through because they may feel embarrassed or they may not want to think about it so they will avoid even talking about it, this is OK. When they are ready they will talk about it with you. You should not try to make your child talk about it because they will then not come to you when they have a problem as readily as if you let them come to you. At the same time you must tell them that you do care and that you want to talk to them about it but only when they are ready. If you treat your children like you trust them, then they will trust you back. Children hate when their parents throw their authority as a parent around just because they can. Do you want to reiterate your control, or do you want to truly help your child?

I would like to tell you that if you make yourself available for your child, but give them their space, you will create the best environment for them to come to you with a problem. At the same time there are obsessive compulsive children who will try to talk to you about it too much, I was one of these! What you need to do in this instance is limit them by agreeing on times that you both can sit down and talk about it. Say listen, "I love you but I need you to understand that talking about it all the time makes it worse. What we need to do is agree to talk about it for a few minutes each day or every other day and that's it. Just let them talk and get it out of their system. You will need to either get a program for them or bring them to a specialist who has gotten results. Being a therapist does not mean they are qualified to help your child.

If you want results with your obsessive compulsive children, you need to find someone who has gotten the results that you are seeking and then work with them. This is the most important thing that you can do as a parent is make sure that the person that is working with your child can help them. Don't look at their degrees as much as their results. I have some great information about OCD for you below, enjoy!

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Derek Soto is an ex-sufferer of OCD who teaches people how to overcome their OCD for good in a very short time using little known techniques which are usually ignored by the medical field altogether.

Derek Soto also mentors people on a wide range of subjects including how to control your thinking naturally, how to defeat anxiety, phobias and how to change your thought processes so that you will be happier and live a more fulfilling life, period.