Re: OCD much worse since school holidays started?

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I would find a different therapist as it sounds

Like yours just gave up. Is he on medication?

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> just as we were looking forward to a nice long rest from school, and school

anxieties, my sons OCDs seem to be worse now that school has

stopped............his therapist who he sees for Aspergers related counselling

also has decided to start slowly finishing with him, gone from weekly to every

3/4 weeks, this has also upset him, he doesnt feel ready......but talking with

here she says she has given HIM the tools to work with and he has to try to

manage this on his own, I see new behaviors starting, and I suspect many more

that he is not telling me......he has a new fear of going to sleep, scared he

will not wake up, he has overheard me saying when i was having a genearal

anaesthetic 2 weeks ago thaT I was scared of not waking up from the surgery and

this has stuck in his head( i did not know he was listening to my conversation

in the garden with a friend as im usually careful, im sure you all know this,

watching everything you say so not to set off another meltdown)

> I feel like we are fighting a losing battle with OCD, our conversations are

all OCD related, mostly son trying to get my reassurance that this or that

disaster wont happen, and i hate to see the worry etched on his face when his

thoughts are totally taken up by these fears, sadly he has had a couple of

significant deaths in the family, and he finds death very hard to deal

with...........and his biggest fear is he will be left on his own if something

happens to me, as it is only the 2 of us, do i now ask for more counselling for

him, focusing on his other fears, or try something new, no matter how much i

reassure that im not going to die, i cannot convince him........and reading OCD

books tells me not to reassure, to expose him to the feelings.......but this

does not seem to help.......any ideas folks??

> thanks maree

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[Guest guest]

Maree, how old is he??

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> just as we were looking forward to a nice long rest from school, and school

anxieties, my sons OCDs seem to be worse now that school has

stopped............his therapist who he sees for Aspergers related counselling

also has decided to start slowly finishing with him, gone from weekly to every

3/4 weeks, this has also upset him, he doesnt feel ready......but talking with

here she says she has given