My 11 year old who always had some OCD tendancies spiralled out of control in the space of a couple of weeks 8 months ago. She would no longer touch doorhandles, had to change into clean clothes each time she changed rooms, washed her hands endlessly, developed a fear of shoes and feet and socks, had full on temper tantrum panic attacks if anyone touched her, would no longer touch things like toys or remote controls or ipads unless they were disinfected in front of her eyes with strong disinfectant, would only sit on one chair in our house and no one else could touch it, would have panic attacks in bed late at night and insist on her bed sheets being changed immediately. Our GP offered no help at all except point us in the direction of an expensive mental health clinic that charged ÂŁ140 per hour and was very far away from us. Instead we found a local CBT practitioner who came to our house once a week for ÂŁ40 for 5 months and got my daughter back to a near normal state. Out of the blue last week the OCD came back, as bad as it was before. I am so stressed by how hard life is for her that I am permanently tearful. The cost of it is stressful in itself. I don't want her school to be aware of her issues, as she seems to fake her way through the school day but she is very late to school every day as it takes her so long to get out the house (washing hands endlessly, she is convinced her clothes are dirty and has to change them several times, refuses to put on her shoes convinced they are dirty so I have to clean them in front of her). Will she be like this her whole life? She is refusing to see her CBT practitioner and says she was only faking agreeing with her before. I don't want her to take drugs. She is under stress at the thought of leaving her junior school and going to secondary school, which I think triggered this relapse. I can't do anything to lessen that anxiety and she will have far worse stress in life as her life progresses. Does anyone know if this is a form of autism/ aspergers? How do they test for aspergers? In all other respects she is a lovely super bright well behaved studious child adored by her teachers and her BFF. Should I tell the school or keep it quiet - I don't think school would understand and I don't think they can help her. Academically she is finds school work easy. I don't want teachers thinking less of her. Has anyone else found that school knowing helped their child or hindered them?