Re: Re: OCD and Autism Connected?-diet success? Jordana

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I love all of the things you are hoping for!  Here's to them coming true.

 Meanwhile, as a comforting thought:  Life can still be good

even though one has to cope with OCD.  Everyone in life has struggles and I

truly can say I am happy with my life.  The only

regret I have is that I didn't marry, probably because of OCD.  This is

something that I hope might still happen, although I am not

betting my home on it.

Re: OCD and Autism Connected?-diet

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> > This topic started out about possible OCD, autism connection. Well -

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> > autism does include obsessive behaviors and ritual type. Now OCD

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> > getting that changed). The behaviors that occur in autism aren't

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> > anxiety related (unless you try to stop them), they are more a

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> > calming behavior. Oh, you can work on the autism type if parent

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> > feels it's something that needs changed, probably similar to CBT,

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> > also could vary with child (based on functioning level).

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> > Still to me, it's very interesting that=2

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> > And lots of the diagnoses are all neurological.

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> > Serotonin isn't the only brain chemical involved with OCD. It's

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> > the neurotransmitter that the medications focus on since it's

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> > it helps the OCD.

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> > I find it hard to believe that everyone with OCD would have the

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> > same...cause? chemical imbalance? reason? for OCD. Plus with the

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> > different behaviors OCD causes (from checking things to repeating

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things to confessing or just bad thoughts) it just doesn't seem, to

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> > me, there would be one " trigger " for it all (thus the different

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> > OK, LOL, so I'm getting to the diets, even supplements. What works

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> > for one person may work for them because that is what their body

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> > needs. Perhaps it's balancing out those " brain chemicals " ; or maybe

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> > the allergic type reaction to some food/ingredient or that the body

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> > can't handle processing the food/ingredient and is messing up the

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> > body some way, by withdrawing that food/ingred the OC behavior

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> > stops. Hey, my sons seem fine with foods with red or yellow dye,

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> > other kids it causes problem behavior.

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> > I've tried lots of supplements/ alternatives with . And one

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> > SSRI. The SSRI worked well. The alternative (inositol powder)

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> > worked well at one time, didn't help a bit years later when re-

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> > it. But inositol has helped others, and some it hasn't.

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> > cause/trigger for OCD in everyone, and I like to read what others

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> > theorizing about and also trying, and especially the successes. And

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> > it's good to ask questions and " where did you read that " but

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> > sometimes it's just sort of " parent theory. " (like my reading about

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> > glucose and trying to tie it to OC behavior at one time)

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