Re: 7 year old .. castleboy3

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Hi Chris... thank you for your post.. he is on the pill because I can

never get him to take liquid anything.. even when he was very young

he would fight it.. I'll wait it out a few days and see if the

symptoms improve.

I really do think it is ocd now... he is fine to be separated from me

as long as I stay home... he can leave. His obsession is that if I

leave I'm going to get in a bad accident and die.. he keeps thinking

about me dying and cant seem to stop.. so much for it getting better

since he's out of school.. Someone told me that kids that usually

have this obsession about a parent dying happens in much older kids..

it first showed up when he was 5. I guess now that he's on meds and

therapy he'll be better off later... at least I can hope.. Lauri

Hi Lauri, welcome! I, too, was sooooo thankful to find this group a

> few years ago when my son - then around 11.5 - began his OCD

> ordeal. (He's much better now than that first year!)...

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Dear Lauri,

My son is 6 and he has been obsessed with both my husband and I dying. I don't

think it has much to do with age. Usually he starts with a particular obsession

based on something he saw on TV or did at school. I think OCD just makes the

brain get stuck instead of experiencing it and moving on like people who don't

have OCD do.He has pretty much gotten over the dying one as we did some ERP

therapy on it. He has been through a lot of different obsessions but the ERP

usually works within a week or so as long as you catch it right in the beginning

and make him face the fear before it gets too far along. Flooding seems to work

pretty good also - we try to talk about it extra and talk about the worst

possible scenario and laugh a little about it too.

(in FL)

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> From: " dr_ark " <dr_ark@...>

> Date: 2006/06/16 Fri PM 05:09:55 EDT

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> Subject: Re: 7 year old .. castleboy3

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> Hi Chris... thank you for your post.. he is on the pill because I can

> never get him to take liquid anything.. even when he was very young

> he would fight it.. I'll wait it out a few days and see if the

> symptoms improve.

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> I really do think it is ocd now... he is fine to be separated from me

> as long as I stay home... he can leave. His obsession is that if I

> leave I'm going to get in a bad accident and die.. he keeps thinking

> about me dying and cant seem to stop.. so much for it getting better

> since he's out of school.. Someone told me that kids that usually

> have this obsession about a parent dying happens in much older kids..

> it first showed up when he was 5. I guess now that he's on meds and

> therapy he'll be better off later... at least I can hope.. Lauri

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> Hi Lauri, welcome! I, too, was sooooo thankful to find this group a

> > few years ago when my son - then around 11.5 - began his OCD

> > ordeal. (He's much better now than that first year!)...

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he is fine to be separated from me as long as I stay home...he can

leave.

Hi again Lauri, well that definitely sounds like an OCD fear. I

couldn't get out of 's sight unless he knew where I was (laundry

room, kitchen, bedroom...) and if he heard a door, he would go

running to see who it was/if I left. I could be in a room with only

1 door, no way out but he would seem to think I'd just be able to

vanish somehow. Also, he didn't want to go anywhere that he didn't

know the way home. Hmmm...I guess he was afraid I'd leave/vanish or

just leave him and he had to know the way home in case. And this

wasn't my OCD son!

When my sons were young...I think before age 7, they each went

through phases of being afraid of dying; wish they hadn't been born

if they had to die, would cry about it, scared, etc. Whew!

Meds and the right therapy will definitely help your son! The med

probably needs to kick in first so that he'll be able to work with

the therapist better.

Well, gotta finish up supper but keep us posted on how things are

going day to day!

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> Hi Chris... thank you for your post.. he is on the pill because I

can

> never get him to take liquid anything.. even when he was very young

> he would fight it.. I'll wait it out a few days and see if the

> symptoms improve.

>

> I really do think it is ocd now... he is fine to be separated from

me