Guest guest Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 My daughter is 10 and it's been a little over a year since she was diagnosed with OCD. She was diagnosed by a Psychiatrist who told us that she needs to go on medication (Zoloft) along with seeing a pshychologist to do Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. We decided to put off the medication and try CBT first. The CBT didn't go that well and the first round was completed with no success. We think it was mainly due to a useless psychologist who kept us in the dark for a long time and wouldn't explain anything they were doing! And my daughter hated going to see this woman. Still hesistant to put her on meds, we decided to put her on Inositol and try a second round of CBT with someone else. The Inositol has seemed to help her anxiety a lot. She's a lot more calm and pleasant and things that would often lead to a meltdown, no longer seem to effect her very strongly AND she has been able to give up a lot of her OCD habits. However, she still has quite a few OCD rituals that are the 'strong' ones (but that effect many aspects of her life) that she can't seem to tackle with CBT. When we talk to her about them and try to break the rituals down to smaller steps so that she can succeed with the CBT, her response is always that she doesn't want to give up the habits that she has. She says she 'likes' these habits and she likes that they keep her 'clean'. So at the moment she's refusing to work on her current rituals! I'm so confused! I have several questions: 1) I don't know if she's saying that she doesn't want to get rid of these rituals because she feels that they're too strong to overcome? or if she really just doesn't want to? Has anyone had this, where their child doesn't even want to get rid of their OCD??? 2) I'm not sure if I should be increasing her Inositol to see if this will help her in wanting to work on her OCD behaviours? She's currently on 2 tsp's twice a day and she weighs around 70 lbs. 3) I have been re-thinking giving her Zoloft. However, from my understanding, Zoloft doesn't take away her OCD symptoms anyway but reduces her anxiety so that she is able to work on her OCD behaviours. Is my understanding correct? If so, isn't that what the Inositol is doing (reducing her anxiety)? So do I need to put her on Zoloft? If anyone can give me any suggestions or share anything similar that they may have experienced with their child, I'd really appreciate it. thanks, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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