Re: aagesk Dr. Wagner how rally

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Thanks Lynda, I will certainly enter the page and comment afeter.

We are having a bad time with general discipline at home. Although

we look in the outside like a normal family.

Thanks again.

AGK

> >

> > My daughter has only been recently diagnosed but we have

> been " limiting "

> > her compulsive behavoirs is much the same way.

> >

> > In January in Colorado you have to wear a coat. This was not an

> easy

> > thing to get her to do, however. She offered to wear multiple

> sweaters,

> > jackets, etc. but she refused to wear her coat. She'd get

frantic

> and cry

> > when we forced her to do it . . . and then the moment would be

> gone. This

> > was prior to our suspicions (and subsequent dx) of OCD. We just

> thought

> > she was being totally ridiculous.

> >

> > Turns out, though, that we were doing a lot of things the psych

> said we

> > should continue to do. First was to talk her down from the

panics

> (which

> > will be the focus of our next meeting with the psychologist).

Next,

> > though, was to limit her compulsions. Instead of saying, " You

> CANNOT take

> > a bath. " we changed to " You may take a bath in five minutes. "

> Instead of

> > telling her she absolutely cannot change her clothes after

school,

> she may

> > change them but only once. She cannot put pajamas on until

after

> 7PM.

> > This really calmed her -- we were allowing the compulsions but

on

> OUR

> > schedule not on OCD's schedule.

> >

> > Although we haven't formally started therapy, she has come a

long

> way the

> > last few weeks. She now is beginning to recognize the urges as

OCD

> rather

> > than her being " crazy. " She will come to me with those scared

eyes

> and

> > tell me that " the Bully " is bothering her. Rather than discuss

> precisely

> > what the Bully is telling her, I will make a big show of

flicking

> the

> > Bully off her shoulder and squashing it. Or she'll race around

the

> room

> > chasing it . . . it becomes a distraction and the obsession is

> broken.

> > Does that make any sense?

> >

> > I can't say that any of this is sanctioned by the psychiatric

> community

> > since we haven't begun the formal sessions yet but it's what

works

> for us

> > for the moment. I hope we're not doing something will sabbotage

her

> > therapy in the future, though!

> >

> > Beth

> >

> > ***************************

> > How do you parentes, handle this at home? Does any have a

problem

> > like this agressivity in a OCD episode?

> >

>