Re: Fearful of things new, changed or out of the ordinary--back to school shop

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Hi Melody! I hope you are having a good summer. That is amazing the

similarity about the soap.

And we have all the same issues with shoes and clothes.

We have not gone shopping yet for the fall. We somehow managed

to get three pair of shorts she likes this summer.

I think I can manage these issues well until the anxiety goes

up and then she may get aggressive with me. Small things

like tugging on my hair, overly combing my hair with her hands

as something to calm her (this looks really weird) or biting

me. So far 25mg of zoloft has not made a dent in the anxiety but

it only has been 2 week.

Thanks for the response. I hope you have fun with what is left.

Pam

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> > > My daughter is so fearful (almost to panic sometimes) over things

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> > > that are out of the ordinary. If she is at school and sees garbage at

recess this scares her, if sees a person that has some disability that

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> > > she hasn't seen before this may scare her, if she sees a dead animal

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> > > in the street this would scare her greatly. (she is on zoloft).

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> > > How do you address this? The many therapists I have worked with even OCD

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> > > experts just focus me back to behavioral methods that keep

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> > > her engaged and not avoidant. They have not suggested

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> > > any ways to have hear cope better with change or novelty.

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> > > She needs some way to cope with out of the ordinary things

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> > > for times I am not with her so she is more comfortable

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> > > with her Dad and with being at school.

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> > > I would appreciate any ideas you have.

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