My gorgeous dd has really really bad OCD.

[gracepaley]

We are on the waiting list for therapy and reading up about it like loons, but we are feeling really bleak about it. It's such a fucking pointless, ridiculous evolutionary blip, and it's turning her into a ghost of herself. Anyone got any cheery stories about recovery to bolster me? Normally more resolute, but just tonight feeling crap about it.

Grace - How fantastic!

We have similar here - We have taken DS's Nintendo hand held game away - and although he does moan about getting it back - he has been without OCD (obvious signs of) since it was 'put away' on Sunday!We have been worried about a particular game - although not violent - you had to keep redoing things to increase your levels of ability to achieve excellence - (we thought this could be unhelpful!)

Its great to hear - lets hope that the kids have beaten it!

FANTASTIC NEWS !! was just passing by and noticed your posting

and yours too MrsJonnyDepp - hooray !

Thats great news Grace - I really hope this continues

Hi all
have been away so only just looked in.

What great news for you both.

Mum got snappy with the carer the other day 1st sign of ANY EMOTION for nearly a year

take care & may things continue to improve for you

Hi all,
Hope your littles ones are still doing well.

Just wanted to update that we finally have funding for mum to go to the maudsley.

just got to work with DD now as OCD back with her. She's worrying as i have to have op next month and already the thoughts & rituals are back. She'd been doing so well so i hope its just a blip.
take care all

Ok. this is me, Gracey, back again......

She came off the Sertraline in December and was doing really really well, but over the past few weeks it's come back again - but in a different form - severe anxiety - she has become obsessed with the car exploding (thanks to some twattish comments from my ex-ish h) and is refusing to go in it, which is making life impossible. If she DOES go in it she starts ritualling like mad and can't stop looking at the temperature gauge and commenting on every tiny fluctuation.
I can't believe we are back here again. Feeling very and trapped. Have called CAMHS 4 times in the past week and they haven't got back. Have been doing amateur CBT with her, on anxiety,
but it looks like we might have to put her back on the drug. I really don't want her to have to live on medication all the time, but
this is a nightmare.
I need to dig really deep, I haven't left the house for 4 weeks anyway because my other dd has been ill, and now the OCD is threatening to shut us all down again.

Hello gracey/toomanydaves. I hope it's ok to bump this thread and don't know if you're still on mn, but was wondering how your dd is doing now. I really hope things got better again, it sounded so awful for both of you.

My dd, although I have no idea if it's ocd, is suffering badly with anxiety and does have some ocd-ish behaviours and rituals atm. We have a referral but it could take months to see anyone. In the meantime, were you advised to go along with any rituals or to challenge them as I'm struggling with which is the best approach at the moment.