Guest guest Posted August 14, 2001 Report Share Posted August 14, 2001 I saw my psychiatrist today. He recommended adding another anxiety drug to my Luvox to see if it'll help with my own OCD symptoms that are acting up. When I described to him what has been going on with , he said it sounded like we did the right thing to get him into counseling (yay!). I told him that the people here on this board have been invaluable to me. I truly appreciate all you've done to help me learn more about OCD, release the stress, etc. is still having clothes issues. It turns out that he has indeed outgrown some of his shirts and one shirt *does* have a scratchy seam on the inside of the neck, but he still has plenty of other shirts he just doesn't want to wear, so he's clinging to the few accdeptable shirts right now - wearing them over and over. Not a big problem, though. Tonight before bed, he told me that he hopes the dentist puts him to sleep if he gets braces, because it'll probably hurt, they probably cut into your mouth, etc. We're talking about possibly five years down the road here! I reminded him of that and I told him to try not to worry about it. Then he moved on to telling me why he doesn't want to swim and that he probably won't earn that badge for Boy Scouts, etc. Again - I told him he doesn't need to worry about that right now because we won't even consider enrolling him in more swimming lessons until next summer. So then he switched to talking about his Pokemon Snap game (Nintendo and Pokemon are always his fall-back topics, it seems). I told him how my OCD sometimes makes me worry too much about things and that I have to tell myself a mental " stop " sometimes. I don't know if it'll help him, but I figured I'd throw that in. I told my psychiatrist about how had gotten upset this week when I put syrup and butter on his waffles and *then* cut them up (It gets pieces of waffle in the syrup!, says ). I told that it's like adding 6 & 2. 6+2=8. Switching it around to read 2+6 will still equal 8. It's the same way with the waffles. They'll still taste the same no matter in what order I do things. My psychiatrist thought that was a good analogy. :-) Only two more weeks until we get the results of the D & E tests. Yay! -Jean ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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