Hello. I know there are quite a few parents of ocd sufferers on mumsnet, and I wondered whether anyone else would be interested in a support thread?
I have 2 dds, the older of whom (13) has quite bad ocd. She's just hitting a new low point now after about 6 months of remission, despite being on 100mg sertraline, and we had a review at CAMHS today in which I suddenly understood what the long term implications of this disease might be. (I quickly pushed those thoughts aside, as they are too bleak). We were told that no more CBT was available for her for the forseeable future - she has had a staggering 6! sessions - and that now we had to deal with the systematic challenging of all her rituals ourselves.
I feel like I need to martial my resources/gird my loins/screw my courage etc - and I think that probably the idea of being able to talk to others in a similar position might be a mutually good thing.
For the record, dd has had dx for the past 4 years, during which time she has had two very severe bouts of ocd, and a couple of less severe ones.
I guess some of the support would be similar across any sn kids - the difficulties of holding down a career, of paying equal mind to other children, of introducing a new partner - but some of them would be specific to the strange and specific world of OCD.