7 year old DS with OCD

[movetolancs]

I really need some advice from parents of children with OCD.
My DS, 7, has anxiety and OCD. The anxiety has thankfully been ok lately, but the OCD is constant and tiring.
DS's obsessions have been ensuring that all the kitchen cupboards / drawers are closed properly, DH making a slurping sounds when he drinks his tea, doing everything twice (such as walking downstairs, coming into rooms, getting into bed).
His latest obsession is DS2. DS2 breathes through his mouth and often sits with his mouth slightly open. DS1 is obessed with this. Even after the most lovely day out, we will collapse on the couch and it begins..."DS2 close your mouth, DS2 your mouth's open, DS2 you're annoying me, close you mouth...". And it goes on, and on. He just cannot stop himself.
I have tried removing him from the room. I have tried encouraging DS2 to sit further away from him. I have sometimes erected a cushion so that DS1 cannot see DS2, but he is so compelled to look that he begins to peer over.
What to do??? It is eating away at me.

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Hi, there maybe some mums on the 'special needs boards' that can advice you. My dd1 has Aspergers and shows signs of OCD, she also suffers from Anxiety. Dd1 likes draws to be shut and has to finish tasks (can't walk away unless they are completed).

Thanks Marne. Will re-post this over in SN.

movetolancs I'm right with you there......

Don't know if you check on this thread but I'm at my wits end in many ways. My son is 10. He's diagnosed as autistic but I think he's more of an Aspie.

He's recently been additionally diagnosed with OCD. We have check lists all over the place.....lights off, doors closed, wires not touching other wires, items being in an exact place, facing the right way etc etc. It's draining, it's sad, it's weird. But it's how he is. Sometimes, I go along with it and sometimes I laugh. He laughs too, he understands the absurdity.