RE: Re: VERY new to OCD, is this normal?

[Guest guest]

To reinforce 's comment, my daughter has a good variety of obsessive

thoughts (many around scrupe, safety) that do NOT have compulsions attached to

them. They were among the ones we struggled with the most initially (ie is this

just a normal kid thing, being afraid that our house would catch on fire or get

broken into, or that someone would shoot us). Kids with OCD get stuck on the

thoughts and can't accept or process a single episode of reassurance, they keep

coming back for reassurance over and over again. " Come check on me in 15

minutes " would sometimes go on in our house for hours at night, and if we

weren't there at 15 minutes, well, you get the idea. Now that we know it's the

OCD we treat it differently. There are so many parts of OCD that are completely

counter-intuitive to being a parent - you WANT to reassure, you WANT to say

" it's OK, of course that's not gonna happen " but that gives the OCD attention,

which gives it more power.

Very few of our challenges have been " classic " compulsions, it's really sneaky,

OCD.

Re: VERY new to OCD, is this normal?

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[Guest guest]

I think what confuses people is that compulsions take many forms. Asking for

reassurance is a very common OCD compulsion. OCD is called the doubting

disorder. Thus, even after getting reassurance, the person with OCD may want it

again and again. With my son, I have tried to point out to him when he does

this that he is actually asking an " OCD " question, and then I try to have him

answer his question himself. I hope that by pointing out that he can rely on

his own answers, his reliance on others to reduce his anxiety will lessen.

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