Hello!
10yo DD has some sort of OCD. Symptoms include an exceptionally tidy room that has to be “just so”; a set of bedtime compulsions like “tap the pillow five times”; an unusual intense focus on list-making and ticking-off things; a little bit of stuff on clothes/sensory (though used to be much worse when young); a need to tidy her drawers in a constant way; a need to hand her dressing gown in a very particular way.
None of this is particularly awful - she is happy, doing well at school etc. Bit more anxious than other kids her age perhaps but nothing out of the normal range. However, it is very obviously an “actual thing” - she has a condition, even if it is not currently damaging. I am worried about how this story is going to play out as she gets older - eg when exam stress or social stress intensifies at secondary school.
I bought her a book about it which she isn’t v keen to engage with (she acknowledges she can be weird about this stuff but doesn’t like to discuss it) and we do our best not to support/indulge the obsessions (which seems to be the advice). What else can/should I do? Should I seek some low key therapy/CBT? I am a bit reluctant to as everything is “fine” but I don’t want to be the parent who waits for a mental health/anxiety crisis before helping.
thoughts from those who have dealt with similar would be super. Recommendations for people would be helpful if poss (we are in London)
thank you!
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Child mental health
10 yo w (mild) OCD - how to help?
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Lindtnotlint · 25/03/2023 18:02
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