Guest guest Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 As someone with OCD and as a mom of twins with OCD, I can tell you that what medication does for us is to totally make us more rational about our fears. I have contamination fears, and without medication, I have a tendency to really believe my fears are real and start to avoid things and overwash, while when on medication, I can hear the facts and not give into my fears. My daughter was really off the wall before medication. She had some pretty strange ideas that completely went away with medication. My son was doing so well on medication with a round of ERP by a great therapist that I decided to try him off medication. It was a big mistake. I finally put him back on when he came down in tears one night after he had gone to bed to let me know that he just couldn't take all the worrying anymore. He still worries on medication, but it's much more tolerable to him, but clearly he needs to restart therapy. In need of advice... My daughter is 10 and it's been a little over a year since she was diagnosed with OCD. She was diagnosed by a Psychiatrist who told us that she needs to go on medication (Zoloft) along with seeing a pshychologist to do Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. We decided to put off the medication and try CBT first. The CBT didn't go that well and the first round was completed with no success. We think it was mainly due to a useless psychologist who kept us in the dark for a long time and wouldn't explain anything they were doing! And my daughter hated going to see this woman. Still hesistant to put her on meds, we decided to put her on Inositol and try a second round of CBT with someone else. The Inositol has seemed to help her anxiety a lot. She's a lot more calm and pleasant and things that would often lead to a meltdown, no longer seem to effect her very strongly AND she has been able to give up a lot of her OCD habits. However, she still has quite a few OCD rituals that are the 'strong' ones (but that effect many aspects of her life) that she can't seem to tackle with CBT. When we talk to her about them and try to break the rituals down to smaller steps so that she can succeed with the CBT, her response is always that she doesn't want to give up the habits that she has. She says she 'likes' these habits and she likes that they keep her 'clean'. So at the moment she's refusing to work on her current rituals! I'm so confused! I have several questions: 1) I don't know if she's saying that she doesn't want to get rid of these rituals because she feels that they're too strong to overcome? or if she really just doesn't want to? Has anyone had this, where their child doesn't even want to get rid of their OCD??? 2) I'm not sure if I should be increasing her Inositol to see if this will help her in wanting to work on her OCD behaviours? She's currently on 2 tsp's twice a day and she weighs around 70 lbs. 3) I have been re-thinking giving her Zoloft. However, from my understanding, Zoloft doesn't take away her OCD symptoms anyway but reduces her anxiety so that she is able to work on her OCD behaviours. Is my understanding correct? If so, isn't that what the Inositol is doing (reducing her anxiety)? So do I need to put her on Zoloft? If anyone can give me any suggestions or share anything similar that they may have experienced with their child, I'd really appreciate it. thanks, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 As someone with OCD and as a mom of twins with OCD, I can tell you that what medication does for us is to totally make us more rational about our fears. I have contamination fears, and without medication, I have a tendency to really believe my fears are real and start to avoid things and overwash, while when on medication, I can hear the facts and not give into my fears. My daughter was really off the wall before medication. She had some pretty strange ideas that completely went away with medication. My son was doing so well on medication with a round of ERP by a great therapist that I decided to try him off medication. It was a big mistake. I finally put him back on when he came down in tears one night after he had gone to bed to let me know that he just couldn't take all the worrying anymore. He still worries on medication, but it's much more tolerable to him, but clearly he needs to restart therapy. In need of advice... My daughter is 10 and it's been a little over a year since she was diagnosed with OCD. She was diagnosed by a Psychiatrist who told us that she needs to go on medication (Zoloft) along with seeing a pshychologist to do Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. We decided to put off the medication and try CBT first. The CBT didn't go that well and the first round was completed with no success. We think it was mainly due to a useless psychologist who kept us in the dark for a long time and wouldn't explain anything they were doing! And my daughter hated going to see this woman. Still hesistant to put her on meds, we decided to put her on Inositol and try a second round of CBT with someone else. The Inositol has seemed to help her anxiety a lot. She's a lot more calm and pleasant and things that would often lead to a meltdown, no longer seem to effect her very strongly AND she has been able to give up a lot of her OCD habits. However, she still has quite a few OCD rituals that are the 'strong' ones (but that effect many aspects of her life) that she can't seem to tackle with CBT. When we talk to her about them and try to break the rituals down to smaller steps so that she can succeed with the CBT, her response is always that she doesn't want to give up the habits that she has. She says she 'likes' these habits and she likes that they keep her 'clean'. So at the moment she's refusing to work on her current rituals! I'm so confused! I have several questions: 1) I don't know if she's saying that she doesn't want to get rid of these rituals because she feels that they're too strong to overcome? or if she really just doesn't want to? Has anyone had this, where their child doesn't even want to get rid of their OCD??? 2) I'm not sure if I should be increasing her Inositol to see if this will help her in wanting to work on her OCD behaviours? She's currently on 2 tsp's twice a day and she weighs around 70 lbs. 3) I have been re-thinking giving her Zoloft. However, from my understanding, Zoloft doesn't take away her OCD symptoms anyway but reduces her anxiety so that she is able to work on her OCD behaviours. Is my understanding correct? If so, isn't that what the Inositol is doing (reducing her anxiety)? So do I need to put her on Zoloft? If anyone can give me any suggestions or share anything similar that they may have experienced with their child, I'd really appreciate it. thanks, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 As someone with OCD and as a mom of twins with OCD, I can tell you that what medication does for us is to totally make us more rational about our fears. I have contamination fears, and without medication, I have a tendency to really believe my fears are real and start to avoid things and overwash, while when on medication, I can hear the facts and not give into my fears. My daughter was really off the wall before medication. She had some pretty strange ideas that completely went away with medication. My son was doing so well on medication with a round of ERP by a great therapist that I decided to try him off medication. It was a big mistake. I finally put him back on when he came down in tears one night after he had gone to bed to let me know that he just couldn't take all the worrying anymore. He still worries on medication, but it's much more tolerable to him, but clearly he needs to restart therapy. In need of advice... My daughter is 10 and it's been a little over a year since she was diagnosed with OCD. She was diagnosed by a Psychiatrist who told us that she needs to go on medication (Zoloft) along with seeing a pshychologist to do Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. We decided to put off the medication and try CBT first. The CBT didn't go that well and the first round was completed with no success. We think it was mainly due to a useless psychologist who kept us in the dark for a long time and wouldn't explain anything they were doing! And my daughter hated going to see this woman. Still hesistant to put her on meds, we decided to put her on Inositol and try a second round of CBT with someone else. The Inositol has seemed to help her anxiety a lot. She's a lot more calm and pleasant and things that would often lead to a meltdown, no longer seem to effect her very strongly AND she has been able to give up a lot of her OCD habits. However, she still has quite a few OCD rituals that are the 'strong' ones (but that effect many aspects of her life) that she can't seem to tackle with CBT. When we talk to her about them and try to break the rituals down to smaller steps so that she can succeed with the CBT, her response is always that she doesn't want to give up the habits that she has. She says she 'likes' these habits and she likes that they keep her 'clean'. So at the moment she's refusing to work on her current rituals! I'm so confused! I have several questions: 1) I don't know if she's saying that she doesn't want to get rid of these rituals because she feels that they're too strong to overcome? or if she really just doesn't want to? Has anyone had this, where their child doesn't even want to get rid of their OCD??? 2) I'm not sure if I should be increasing her Inositol to see if this will help her in wanting to work on her OCD behaviours? She's currently on 2 tsp's twice a day and she weighs around 70 lbs. 3) I have been re-thinking giving her Zoloft. However, from my understanding, Zoloft doesn't take away her OCD symptoms anyway but reduces her anxiety so that she is able to work on her OCD behaviours. Is my understanding correct? If so, isn't that what the Inositol is doing (reducing her anxiety)? So do I need to put her on Zoloft? If anyone can give me any suggestions or share anything similar that they may have experienced with their child, I'd really appreciate it. thanks, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 It's definitely a difficult decision whether to try the Zoloft or not. However, if your daughter has experienced some decrease in OCD with Inositol, maybe more Inositol would help. I don't know what dosages are recommended, but I know there's a chart in the files somewhere. My son does well on Inositol. Also, we worked on eliminating some food triggers for the OCD and his is beginning to recognize which foods make the OCD thoughts worse. Corn and wheat and some food dyes seem to increase his intrusive thoughts a lot. So we are trying to stay away from those. But it took totally getting off those foods for a couple of months, and then slowly adding them back in order to see the connection. We are also doing a low oxalate diet which has been successful for lots of kids with autism, and I think the oxalates may be related to some of his OCD thoughts as well. > > My daughter is 10 and it's been a little over a year since she was diagnosed with OCD. She was diagnosed by a Psychiatrist who told us that she needs to go on medication (Zoloft) along with seeing a pshychologist to do Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. We decided to put off the medication and try CBT first. The CBT didn't go that well and the first round was completed with no success. We think it was mainly due to a useless psychologist who kept us in the dark for a long time and wouldn't explain anything they were doing! And my daughter hated going to see this woman. > Still hesistant to put her on meds, we decided to put her on Inositol and try a second round of CBT with someone else. The Inositol has seemed to help her anxiety a lot. She's a lot more calm and pleasant and things that would often lead to a meltdown, no longer seem to effect her very strongly AND she has been able to give up a lot of her OCD habits. However, she still has quite a few OCD rituals that are the 'strong' ones (but that effect many aspects of her life) that she can't seem to tackle with CBT. When we talk to her about them and try to break the rituals down to smaller steps so that she can succeed with the CBT, her response is always that she doesn't want to give up the habits that she has. She says she 'likes' these habits and she likes that they keep her 'clean'. So at the moment she's refusing to work on her current rituals! > > I'm so confused! I have several questions: > > 1) I don't know if she's saying that she doesn't want to get rid of these rituals because she feels that they're too strong to overcome? or if she really just doesn't want to? Has anyone had this, where their child doesn't even want to get rid of their OCD??? > > 2) I'm not sure if I should be increasing her Inositol to see if this will help her in wanting to work on her OCD behaviours? She's currently on 2 tsp's twice a day and she weighs around 70 lbs. > > 3) I have been re-thinking giving her Zoloft. However, from my understanding, Zoloft doesn't take away her OCD symptoms anyway but reduces her anxiety so that she is able to work on her OCD behaviours. Is my understanding correct? If so, isn't that what the Inositol is doing (reducing her anxiety)? So do I need to put her on Zoloft? > > If anyone can give me any suggestions or share anything similar that they may have experienced with their child, I'd really appreciate it. > > thanks, > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 It's definitely a difficult decision whether to try the Zoloft or not. However, if your daughter has experienced some decrease in OCD with Inositol, maybe more Inositol would help. I don't know what dosages are recommended, but I know there's a chart in the files somewhere. My son does well on Inositol. Also, we worked on eliminating some food triggers for the OCD and his is beginning to recognize which foods make the OCD thoughts worse. Corn and wheat and some food dyes seem to increase his intrusive thoughts a lot. So we are trying to stay away from those. But it took totally getting off those foods for a couple of months, and then slowly adding them back in order to see the connection. We are also doing a low oxalate diet which has been successful for lots of kids with autism, and I think the oxalates may be related to some of his OCD thoughts as well. > > My daughter is 10 and it's been a little over a year since she was diagnosed with OCD. She was diagnosed by a Psychiatrist who told us that she needs to go on medication (Zoloft) along with seeing a pshychologist to do Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. We decided to put off the medication and try CBT first. The CBT didn't go that well and the first round was completed with no success. We think it was mainly due to a useless psychologist who kept us in the dark for a long time and wouldn't explain anything they were doing! And my daughter hated going to see this woman. > Still hesistant to put her on meds, we decided to put her on Inositol and try a second round of CBT with someone else. The Inositol has seemed to help her anxiety a lot. She's a lot more calm and pleasant and things that would often lead to a meltdown, no longer seem to effect her very strongly AND she has been able to give up a lot of her OCD habits. However, she still has quite a few OCD rituals that are the 'strong' ones (but that effect many aspects of her life) that she can't seem to tackle with CBT. When we talk to her about them and try to break the rituals down to smaller steps so that she can succeed with the CBT, her response is always that she doesn't want to give up the habits that she has. She says she 'likes' these habits and she likes that they keep her 'clean'. So at the moment she's refusing to work on her current rituals! > > I'm so confused! I have several questions: > > 1) I don't know if she's saying that she doesn't want to get rid of these rituals because she feels that they're too strong to overcome? or if she really just doesn't want to? Has anyone had this, where their child doesn't even want to get rid of their OCD??? > > 2) I'm not sure if I should be increasing her Inositol to see if this will help her in wanting to work on her OCD behaviours? She's currently on 2 tsp's twice a day and she weighs around 70 lbs. > > 3) I have been re-thinking giving her Zoloft. However, from my understanding, Zoloft doesn't take away her OCD symptoms anyway but reduces her anxiety so that she is able to work on her OCD behaviours. Is my understanding correct? If so, isn't that what the Inositol is doing (reducing her anxiety)? So do I need to put her on Zoloft? > > If anyone can give me any suggestions or share anything similar that they may have experienced with their child, I'd really appreciate it. > > thanks, > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 , nice that you got some food " connection " , had to be hard work, can't imagine checking all we eat for those, plus starting it and sticking to it for weeks! I know many try eliminating gluten first. Adding back and seeing what happens - do you notice the first day or does it take longer to see his thoughts increase?? > > It's definitely a difficult decision whether to try the Zoloft or not. > However, if your daughter has experienced some decrease in > OCD with Inositol, maybe more Inositol would help. I don't know > what dosages are recommended, but I know there's a chart in > the files somewhere. My son does well on Inositol. Also, we > worked on eliminating some food triggers for the OCD and > his is beginning to recognize which foods make the OCD > thoughts worse. Corn and wheat and some food dyes seem > to increase his intrusive thoughts a lot. So we are trying > to stay away from those. But it took totally getting off those foods > for a couple of months, and then slowly adding them back in > order to see the connection. We are also doing a low oxalate > diet which has been successful for lots of kids with autism, and > I think the oxalates may be related to some of his OCD thoughts > as well. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 , nice that you got some food " connection " , had to be hard work, can't imagine checking all we eat for those, plus starting it and sticking to it for weeks! I know many try eliminating gluten first. Adding back and seeing what happens - do you notice the first day or does it take longer to see his thoughts increase?? > > It's definitely a difficult decision whether to try the Zoloft or not. > However, if your daughter has experienced some decrease in > OCD with Inositol, maybe more Inositol would help. I don't know > what dosages are recommended, but I know there's a chart in > the files somewhere. My son does well on Inositol. Also, we > worked on eliminating some food triggers for the OCD and > his is beginning to recognize which foods make the OCD > thoughts worse. Corn and wheat and some food dyes seem > to increase his intrusive thoughts a lot. So we are trying > to stay away from those. But it took totally getting off those foods > for a couple of months, and then slowly adding them back in > order to see the connection. We are also doing a low oxalate > diet which has been successful for lots of kids with autism, and > I think the oxalates may be related to some of his OCD thoughts > as well. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 It really all started with me and trying to eliminate foods that were causing my IBS. After being off gluten, corn, dairy, and a few other foods for a few weeks, I noticed that my thoughts were happier and not as anxious. Since a lot of my son's issues are anxiety, I approached him with the idea of giving it a try. He kept drinking milk, but stopped the wheat and corn. I noticed he wasn't showing as many OCD signs as before, but I'm not sure he noticed. After a month or two, he tried eating in the school cafeteria one day, and of course, it was a food with lots of wheat. He said the OCD thoughts started in the next class period after lunch. The other day he had a corn dog at home and said the OCD thoughts started immediately. He is able to eat some gluten without an issue, but not huge amounts and not every day. He is more than willing to do this because he hates his OCD obsessive/intrusive thoughts so much. I think we're extremely lucky to have found this connection. I also think he has PITAND (I think it's called by a different name now), and I still don't have a doctor to take him to for that. I think OCD must be one of those things that has many different causes for different people. I would say it would take a month or two of being off the offending food and completely clearing it out of the body before adding it back to see if it causes a reaction. Now we're both working on eating low oxalate foods and I think that is having an impact as well. This too started with me because I have kidney stones and oxalates are one cause of the stones, but I think the oxalates may play a role in my son's OCD. I think one thing that makes it easier is that my son and I are doing this together. I'm a single mom and we're the only two in the house. I think he would be much less willing to give it a try if I had him eliminate the foods while I kept eating them in front of him:) > > > > It's definitely a difficult decision whether to try the Zoloft or not. > > However, if your daughter has experienced some decrease in > > OCD with Inositol, maybe more Inositol would help. I don't know > > what dosages are recommended, but I know there's a chart in > > the files somewhere. My son does well on Inositol. Also, we > > worked on eliminating some food triggers for the OCD and > > his is beginning to recognize which foods make the OCD > > thoughts worse. Corn and wheat and some food dyes seem > > to increase his intrusive thoughts a lot. So we are trying > > to stay away from those. But it took totally getting off those foods > > for a couple of months, and then slowly adding them back in > > order to see the connection. We are also doing a low oxalate > > diet which has been successful for lots of kids with autism, and > > I think the oxalates may be related to some of his OCD thoughts > > as well. > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 It really all started with me and trying to eliminate foods that were causing my IBS. After being off gluten, corn, dairy, and a few other foods for a few weeks, I noticed that my thoughts were happier and not as anxious. Since a lot of my son's issues are anxiety, I approached him with the idea of giving it a try. He kept drinking milk, but stopped the wheat and corn. I noticed he wasn't showing as many OCD signs as before, but I'm not sure he noticed. After a month or two, he tried eating in the school cafeteria one day, and of course, it was a food with lots of wheat. He said the OCD thoughts started in the next class period after lunch. The other day he had a corn dog at home and said the OCD thoughts started immediately. He is able to eat some gluten without an issue, but not huge amounts and not every day. He is more than willing to do this because he hates his OCD obsessive/intrusive thoughts so much. I think we're extremely lucky to have found this connection. I also think he has PITAND (I think it's called by a different name now), and I still don't have a doctor to take him to for that. I think OCD must be one of those things that has many different causes for different people. I would say it would take a month or two of being off the offending food and completely clearing it out of the body before adding it back to see if it causes a reaction. Now we're both working on eating low oxalate foods and I think that is having an impact as well. This too started with me because I have kidney stones and oxalates are one cause of the stones, but I think the oxalates may play a role in my son's OCD. I think one thing that makes it easier is that my son and I are doing this together. I'm a single mom and we're the only two in the house. I think he would be much less willing to give it a try if I had him eliminate the foods while I kept eating them in front of him:) > > > > It's definitely a difficult decision whether to try the Zoloft or not. > > However, if your daughter has experienced some decrease in > > OCD with Inositol, maybe more Inositol would help. I don't know > > what dosages are recommended, but I know there's a chart in > > the files somewhere. My son does well on Inositol. Also, we > > worked on eliminating some food triggers for the OCD and > > his is beginning to recognize which foods make the OCD > > thoughts worse. Corn and wheat and some food dyes seem > > to increase his intrusive thoughts a lot. So we are trying > > to stay away from those. But it took totally getting off those foods > > for a couple of months, and then slowly adding them back in > > order to see the connection. We are also doing a low oxalate > > diet which has been successful for lots of kids with autism, and > > I think the oxalates may be related to some of his OCD thoughts > > as well. > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 It is very common for someone with ocd to not want to give up a ritual. The rituals give them relief from the anxiety, so it is scary to think about not doing them. Sharon ________________________________ To: Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2012 10:23 PM Subject: In need of advice...  My daughter is 10 and it's been a little over a year since she was diagnosed with OCD. She was diagnosed by a Psychiatrist who told us that she needs to go on medication (Zoloft) along with seeing a pshychologist to do Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. We decided to put off the medication and try CBT first. The CBT didn't go that well and the first round was completed with no success. We think it was mainly due to a useless psychologist who kept us in the dark for a long time and wouldn't explain anything they were doing! And my daughter hated going to see this woman. Still hesistant to put her on meds, we decided to put her on Inositol and try a second round of CBT with someone else. The Inositol has seemed to help her anxiety a lot. She's a lot more calm and pleasant and things that would often lead to a meltdown, no longer seem to effect her very strongly AND she has been able to give up a lot of her OCD habits. However, she still has quite a few OCD rituals that are the 'strong' ones (but that effect many aspects of her life) that she can't seem to tackle with CBT. When we talk to her about them and try to break the rituals down to smaller steps so that she can succeed with the CBT, her response is always that she doesn't want to give up the habits that she has. She says she 'likes' these habits and she likes that they keep her 'clean'. So at the moment she's refusing to work on her current rituals! I'm so confused! I have several questions: 1) I don't know if she's saying that she doesn't want to get rid of these rituals because she feels that they're too strong to overcome? or if she really just doesn't want to? Has anyone had this, where their child doesn't even want to get rid of their OCD??? 2) I'm not sure if I should be increasing her Inositol to see if this will help her in wanting to work on her OCD behaviours? She's currently on 2 tsp's twice a day and she weighs around 70 lbs. 3) I have been re-thinking giving her Zoloft. However, from my understanding, Zoloft doesn't take away her OCD symptoms anyway but reduces her anxiety so that she is able to work on her OCD behaviours. Is my understanding correct? If so, isn't that what the Inositol is doing (reducing her anxiety)? So do I need to put her on Zoloft? If anyone can give me any suggestions or share anything similar that they may have experienced with their child, I'd really appreciate it. thanks, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 It is very common for someone with ocd to not want to give up a ritual. The rituals give them relief from the anxiety, so it is scary to think about not doing them. Sharon ________________________________ To: Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2012 10:23 PM Subject: In need of advice...  My daughter is 10 and it's been a little over a year since she was diagnosed with OCD. She was diagnosed by a Psychiatrist who told us that she needs to go on medication (Zoloft) along with seeing a pshychologist to do Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. We decided to put off the medication and try CBT first. The CBT didn't go that well and the first round was completed with no success. We think it was mainly due to a useless psychologist who kept us in the dark for a long time and wouldn't explain anything they were doing! And my daughter hated going to see this woman. Still hesistant to put her on meds, we decided to put her on Inositol and try a second round of CBT with someone else. The Inositol has seemed to help her anxiety a lot. She's a lot more calm and pleasant and things that would often lead to a meltdown, no longer seem to effect her very strongly AND she has been able to give up a lot of her OCD habits. However, she still has quite a few OCD rituals that are the 'strong' ones (but that effect many aspects of her life) that she can't seem to tackle with CBT. When we talk to her about them and try to break the rituals down to smaller steps so that she can succeed with the CBT, her response is always that she doesn't want to give up the habits that she has. She says she 'likes' these habits and she likes that they keep her 'clean'. So at the moment she's refusing to work on her current rituals! I'm so confused! I have several questions: 1) I don't know if she's saying that she doesn't want to get rid of these rituals because she feels that they're too strong to overcome? or if she really just doesn't want to? Has anyone had this, where their child doesn't even want to get rid of their OCD??? 2) I'm not sure if I should be increasing her Inositol to see if this will help her in wanting to work on her OCD behaviours? She's currently on 2 tsp's twice a day and she weighs around 70 lbs. 3) I have been re-thinking giving her Zoloft. However, from my understanding, Zoloft doesn't take away her OCD symptoms anyway but reduces her anxiety so that she is able to work on her OCD behaviours. Is my understanding correct? If so, isn't that what the Inositol is doing (reducing her anxiety)? So do I need to put her on Zoloft? If anyone can give me any suggestions or share anything similar that they may have experienced with their child, I'd really appreciate it. thanks, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 It is very common for someone with ocd to not want to give up a ritual. The rituals give them relief from the anxiety, so it is scary to think about not doing them. Sharon ________________________________ To: Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2012 10:23 PM Subject: In need of advice...  My daughter is 10 and it's been a little over a year since she was diagnosed with OCD. She was diagnosed by a Psychiatrist who told us that she needs to go on medication (Zoloft) along with seeing a pshychologist to do Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. We decided to put off the medication and try CBT first. The CBT didn't go that well and the first round was completed with no success. We think it was mainly due to a useless psychologist who kept us in the dark for a long time and wouldn't explain anything they were doing! And my daughter hated going to see this woman. Still hesistant to put her on meds, we decided to put her on Inositol and try a second round of CBT with someone else. The Inositol has seemed to help her anxiety a lot. She's a lot more calm and pleasant and things that would often lead to a meltdown, no longer seem to effect her very strongly AND she has been able to give up a lot of her OCD habits. However, she still has quite a few OCD rituals that are the 'strong' ones (but that effect many aspects of her life) that she can't seem to tackle with CBT. When we talk to her about them and try to break the rituals down to smaller steps so that she can succeed with the CBT, her response is always that she doesn't want to give up the habits that she has. She says she 'likes' these habits and she likes that they keep her 'clean'. So at the moment she's refusing to work on her current rituals! I'm so confused! I have several questions: 1) I don't know if she's saying that she doesn't want to get rid of these rituals because she feels that they're too strong to overcome? or if she really just doesn't want to? Has anyone had this, where their child doesn't even want to get rid of their OCD??? 2) I'm not sure if I should be increasing her Inositol to see if this will help her in wanting to work on her OCD behaviours? She's currently on 2 tsp's twice a day and she weighs around 70 lbs. 3) I have been re-thinking giving her Zoloft. However, from my understanding, Zoloft doesn't take away her OCD symptoms anyway but reduces her anxiety so that she is able to work on her OCD behaviours. Is my understanding correct? If so, isn't that what the Inositol is doing (reducing her anxiety)? So do I need to put her on Zoloft? If anyone can give me any suggestions or share anything similar that they may have experienced with their child, I'd really appreciate it. thanks, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 9, 2012 Report Share Posted January 9, 2012 , those stronger rituals she has may be too hard to work on now. I know she said she likes them, but are there any other more " minor " ones that she still needs to overcome? If so, I'd ignore the strong ones and keep at work on the others that she is willing to work on. You might be able to get her to just pick 1 of the strong ones to work on, show her how it is affecting her daily or affecting the family if not her. Inositol - how long has she been on it? If it's helping already, you could increase the dose some more to see if more progress. Wouldn't be a sudden progress, but over time. was maybe 80lbs in 6th grade and on 13-14 grams a day or so, we gave it to him 4x a day. But I don't think you go by age or weight, it's just the *treatable/effective* dose. I'd try going up since she's had success on current dose. If no better results in a month, you can't see any more benefit, you could go back to the present level. But with , he just got better and better as more time went by on it. I think that can be true with prescriptions too, give them time. With I think it was maybe the 3rd or 4th month on inositol that I saw definite progress. I do recall that first month or couple weeks I wondered if it was making him worse, but stuck it out like I would have with a prescription. With prescription meds, I think docs say to give them a 12 to 16 week trial. Zoloft and other SSRI meds - yes, they can reduce the OC behaviors and thus reduce the anxiety they caused and work more effectively in therapy. For some an SSRI may totally stop the OC behaviors, or may just help a lot/most of them go away, and they're doing much better and able to work on exposures, etc. Just some quick thoughts! > > 1) I don't know if she's saying that she doesn't want to get rid of these rituals because she feels that they're too strong to overcome? or if she really just doesn't want to? Has anyone had this, where their child doesn't even want to get rid of their OCD??? > > 2) I'm not sure if I should be increasing her Inositol to see if this will help her in wanting to work on her OCD behaviours? She's currently on 2 tsp's twice a day and she weighs around 70 lbs. > > 3) I have been re-thinking giving her Zoloft. However, from my understanding, Zoloft doesn't take away her OCD symptoms anyway but reduces her anxiety so that she is able to work on her OCD behaviours. Is my understanding correct? If so, isn't that what the Inositol is doing (reducing her anxiety)? So do I need to put her on Zoloft? > > If anyone can give me any suggestions or share anything similar that they may have experienced with their child, I'd really appreciate it. > > thanks, > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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