Guest guest Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 Gee, can you tell I might ask if he wants to try it, LOL. He is managing his OCD okay, but then since he won't talk about it (still) I just observe. It bothers him daily still. He is supposed to be job hunting. He graduated last August!! YAY! And I let him have some time to " wind down " and relax since it had been a pretty stressing 2 years at Chapel Hill, for him in general and with OCD acting up during stress and all. He got a BS in Biology. But - and I think the Aspergers comes into play here - he has only applied for 3 or 4 jobs (which that began in say...November?). He only wants to apply for what is in his career path first (cancer research). But he is looking now at ones that are still in research that he feels he qualifies for. At least I hope he is. Problem is, no local ones for jobs of that type, so closest would be an hour away, most of them are about 2.5 hours from here. So - driving there a bit of a problem due to Aspergers and inexperience. ARGH! But we'll figure it out. I'd be happy to have him bag groceries here just to GET a job and keep looking for another; which I've told him. He does help teach a Sunday School class for the middle school age. He is supposed to co-teach, but I think he does more helping the other co-teachers who seem to take turns. And he still is in his church choir. So at least he is getting out of the house a couple days a week! But with his OCD scrupulosity - I still wonder how he manages church and all. But he does, so that's great; exposures all the time! > >  > He said he feels really good on them and he is almost 17 now -- so he is old enough to know how he is feeling. Maybe something would try? How is he doing, by the way? Has he graduated yet or is he still in school? >  > in WA > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 I'm glad it's working for your son. Looking at the ingredients, it has inositol which it takes 12 weeks to get to a dose high enough to work - so you'll probably have to supplement with more of this, slowly increasing. It also has valerian root (St. 's Wort) which is good for depression (although some have found it stops working after awhile), magnesium (which is a calming mineral), vitamin B6 (which is also in the inositol), hypericin and hops(both which increases GABA in the brain), and passion flower (regulates serotonim). I had taken my son to a specialist in these natural " brain " regulaters when he was 12. He was put on " vitamins " that regulated magnesium, gaba and serotonim in the brain. The idea was to calm his brain because he was anxious and hyper. He did seem a bit calmer, but after a few months on these, he developed severe OCD which he hadn't had a sign of before. It was overnight. He has been diagnosed with PANDAS being a cause (yet he had the PANDAS it was established since 2 years old - just no OCD symptoms). Zoloft and much therapy (which he still gets) saved him. Anyway, at the time, I brought him back to the the woman who had subscribed all the " vitamins " and she said the pills should have prevented OCD. She couldn't understand it. I went home and spent some time researching. Increased GABA in the brain, though used for OCD, can also cause OCD in some people. So did this contribute to him getting the OCD? I don't know. It's all very complicated. Just wanted to give people the heads up. Prairie in Austin > > I just wanted to post for some of you going the vitamin route that I started my son on a new vitamin a few months ago to replace the gazillion vitamins he was taking and we have had really good results. It is called " headSTRONG OCDEFENSE " and I ordered it on the internet. I will definitely order more when these bottles are gone. > > in WA > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 Prairie, thanks for the heads up! Always like to know little details like that, helps to know what to watch out for. > >. I went home and spent some time researching. Increased GABA in the brain, though used for OCD, can also cause OCD in some people. So did this contribute to him getting the OCD? I don't know. It's all very complicated. Just wanted to give people the heads up. > > Prairie in Austin > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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