Is it recommended to force a child to accept treatment for their anxiety/OCD?

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In general, if it's been explained clearly how treatment works, and the child

still refuses to try things that can help treat their OCD/anxiety, is it

recommended to force them to do it? Kind of like making them take yucky

medicine, even if they don't want to, because we are the parent and we know

what's best for them? I know it's common given a childs " in the now " nature, to

just want to escape from it, and it's harder for them to see that in order to

get " long term relief " you have to do things that can be extremely challenging

and seem to make it worse before it gets better.