early ocd signs?

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My 13 yo aspie daughter has suffered from general anxiety

for some time. mostly she fears dying from germs and parasitic worms.

She started Prozac this summer and it helps. about 5 months ago, she has

taken to biting her nails and the skin around them. I asked her psych

what I should do and he suggested chewing a pencil and increasing her dosage. my

daughter wont chew a pencil but I slightly increased her Prozac. I bought

her some great chew toys (for older kids) which she sometimes uses, but the

bottom line is she wants to bite her nails right now. I began to

notice that she was lining things up, making sure things were even. One

day when I was changing the newspaper in the bottom of the bird cage, she

became upset with me because the paper was not laid out evenly. I talked

to her about this new development and she said it all began when she was given

a combination lock for her pe clothes this year. she liked the turning of

the dial one way and then the other and how if it wasn’t done just right,

the lock wouldn’t open. She told me she enjoys opening and closing

the lock several times and this has lead her to seek evenness in other

things. believing it will stave off bad luck. When I shared this

with her therapist she suggested increasing her dosage again. which I was

able to do but each week it seems there is something else she is adding to her (rituals).

Last night her homework assignment had her underlining and double

underlining parts of sentences. This took her hours to do because the

lines were not even.

I am wondering if increasing the dosage of Prozac can bring

on ocd symptoms. Have any of you heard of this? or if it is just a

natural development for her, is it correct to assume, it is better to stop the

behaviors before they become too habitual---or are they just replaced with

something else? what is your experience with ocd?

I am not impressed with the psych and therapists easy answer

to increase the meds although they may be correct. where her dosage

of 2.5mg Prozac was working well for her anger and rigidity as well as her

anxiety, I have increased her to 3.5mg to help with the nail biting (didn’t

help) and her new rituals (also didn’t help). Any higher dosage

and her stomach and intestines will cramp up and all that.

Regards, melody