reassurance OCD

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can you give me examples of the reassurance your daughter needed? was there

anxiety with it? if you didn't answer

her?

my 5yo asks the same questions over and over and WANTS the answer, i'm

leaning between asperger's and

OCD, btw, i have " harming " int. thoughts/OCD. (the worse thing i ever went

thru!)

thanks,

kris

My now-11yo dd was diagnosed with an almost purely " reassurance " form of OCD

right around her 9th birthday. She was first given a low dose of Zoloft,

which just made things much worse and very weird (she was virtually

non-functional for the few weeks she was on it). She was switched to Prozac

and we saw tremendous improvement in about a week. She has now been on

Prozac for almost two years, gradually increasing to 60 mg. Although we

definitely still see some OCD indecision/need for reassurance, she is able

to function. Right now we may be seeing some waxing of symptoms, though.

P.