Re: dont know what to do anymore:(

[Guest guest]

Oh Jodi...

I'm so sorry to hear about your son's suffering (and, of course, if our child is

suffering, so are we). Is he getting CBT with ERP? That particular type of

therapy is key to getting OCD under control (this isn't an opinion; it's been

verified by very well-respected research). Meds can help, but CBT with ERP is

essential.

Of the books I read when my son got his OCD diagnosis, the most helpful for me

was Dr. Tamar Chansky's Freeing Your Child from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

Also helpful was Coping with OCD by Bruce Hyman and Troy Dufrene. Both are

available used on Amazon.com.

> Maybe someone has advice, i am really at the end of my rope.. diagnosed

> around 4...my sons ocd haas been a whirlwind of different things,

> mostly bad thoughts, transferring from one to the next. I was able to

> keep his life functional with Inositol until hewas 10 and had brain

> surgery for Chiari 1 malformation. He then went off the deep end. He

> spent the last 2 years on prozac and abilify and was yet again

> " functional " . Puberty hit and his ocd went thru the roof. He is

> obsessed with animals. I totally understnd because i was there myself

> maany times. We definately do not have a lack of amimals in my house

> but all day long all he does is beg for more, beg to go to pet store,

> look up video, and insist he will feel better if he just gets one more.

> By the way he is also in therapy in and out of school. Last week he was

> beggig God to take him so he dsnt hve ocd nymore:( We switched him to

> depakote and celexa. Now he is going to bathroom every period at school

> to text me that hes falling asleep! Does anyone have any experience

> with these meds? Im hoping its a temporary side effect. Oh, and to top

> things off hes extremely overweight from all the meds and lack of

> excersise from limits due to brain defect. Help! Sorry, i think i just

> needed to vent to people who get it!

> Jodi(ocd, anxiety attacks, son w ocd, tics, depression, anxiety!,)

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Jodi and ((hugs)) I hate when they get so set/nagging on some things they

just want, *have* to have...and that's even without OCD. (lol, talking about a

non-OCD son of my own here) Wish I had a solution for that.

Oh, really hate his OCD is causing him such misery. Is it *all* OCD, not sure

about the Chiara and surgery, any downsides to that (you mentioned limits with

exercising, etc).

took Celexa. And yeah, could get sleepy at school, that wasn't uncommon

from what I read from others who took it. We did give it at night too, hoping

that would help; and maybe it did, may have kept him from being more sleepy.

When he started it, it kept him awake, harder to get to sleep, but he said that

passed after the initial effect. He did take naps after school. Even on a

weekend day. Now, he was never an active kid before that either, couch potato;

don't know how my other 2 sons who were active would have been effected if they

had been on it. Celexa worked wonderful for his OCD, and as the only side

effect for him it was just something we put up with. Also, it was around the

16th week on it that I felt it REALLY kicked in and he started showing faster

improvement with his OCD. He was only on Celexa and didn't gain any weight, but

he's the type that just doesn't gain, WAY too skinny/tall.

>

We switched him to

> depakote and celexa. Now he is going to bathroom every period at school

> to text me that hes falling asleep! Does anyone have any experience

> with these meds? Im hoping its a temporary side effect. Oh, and to top

> things off hes extremely overweight from all the meds and lack of

> excersise from limits due to brain defect. Help! Sorry, i think i just

> needed to vent to people who get it!

> Jodi(ocd, anxiety attacks, son w ocd, tics, depression, anxiety!,)

>