4 attemp to vent

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IM IN SUCH A CONFUSED STATE.

My son Jake (14)has bad thought OCD and seperation anxiety and no

matter what approach we take he is totally grounded and has been for

2 months. When i say grounded i mean completely unable to cope with

the outside world and therfore housebound.

As im typing Jake is in the background half way through his new ?????

routine which i might add is 3 times the spead of regular speach.He

no longer looks for answers and if i tell him toslow down and take a

breath and a few minuits to think he continues and ignores me.

When we do talk about it he says he has no control.

Lately Jake has been shouting out random words without warning or

reason and this is really bothering him , he ?????? tourettes and

that will be one of the next questions for me to hit the pych with.

18 months ago Jake refused to go to school, wouldnt talk to anyone

and spent most of the time hiding in or around the house after 2

weeks of a tough love approach he broke down and started to let me

in .

contamination, fear of death, fear of disaster,disturbing sexual

thoughts and the most frustrating for us both, the fear of frienship

incase he is let down or a new friend might become his parent.As you

can imagine going to school worried that your teacher could be your

mother by the end of the day must be horrible.When he talks about

this fear in particular he says in one breath (i know it cant

happen....but what if it does.....im not taking the chance.)

Jake had been taking Zoloft which was fantastic, he seemed more

settled there were less questions and he found cbt realy helpfull.He

was able to with hard work attend a centre here in Perth that aim at

educating and reintroducing young people with mental health problems

back into mainstream education. Most students are given 20 weeks

intensive therapy but the team of 2 pychologists and 3 speacalised

teaches suggested Jake would benefit from 40 weeks.Jake managed 30

weeks fairly well but this was disrupted after a talk with his

pychiatrist that led Jake into coming off the medication.

I lost all faith in the team around that time and have been unable to

change the present setup due to costing. Last week i recieved the

news that a new pychiatrist will be working with the team and an

appointment has been made for Jake.

How can i make this new pychiatrist aware of the severity, it seemed

the last one refused to look at it as much more than bad behaviour

with anxiety and a little OCD.I swear if this one tells me to get

harder on Jake and the OCD and go out and live my life and let him

sit alone and see if its fun , I will scream.

When your child is sufferig on the inside and no one can see it its

easy to say these things, but when its lived 24/7 we all know the

hurt and fear and frustration.

How do we get people to listen and take us seriously?

Thanks for listening

and Jake