venting

May 22, 2006

Hi everyone. I'm just having the most hard time with my child. He

went on new medication about 7 wks ago. Over this last week I

thought that he was finally starting to get better. Over the

weekend he was very busy and his ocd was barely noticable. We got

home last night and it was like he had saved up all his ocd over the

last week for last night. He just kind of cracked on us. We

couldn't say anything to him without him insisting that we repeat it

exactly the same several times. We finally got him to bed but he

couldn't get his bed time compulsions done " right " . I finally ran

out of patience and had to walk away so I didn't lost it on him.

That sent him into a major melt down. He was such a mess. Finally

I agreed to come help him one more time and he managed to get his

compulsions done but I had to leave him crying till he fell asleep.

Today he's better but he has to study for a test that the teacher

already has given him an extra week to study for because he missed

so many classes. Every time he tries to study it sets him off and

he starts rereading the same sentence over and over. I tried

reading for him but then he want me to reread. I would just say

forget it, but if he's not prepared for the test I'm afraid it'll

set off his ocd when he goes to school tomorrow and every day until

the test is over with. This will have him coming home everyday

again. I'm just so tired of this and all the extra pressure of

school. Another problem with school he has been struggling with is

that he has 2 different aides. One of them he really likes. The

other one bugs him and he can't do any work around her. She is nice

to him and tries to help him but he thinks that her tone of voice is

like she thinks he's stupid which gets his anxiety up. I don't

really know what to do about it. She's the reason why he comes home

so much during social class. If she was doing something wrong I

could put in a complaint but I think she's just trying to be nice.

Well I just needed to vent a little. Friends and family see him and

he appears to be just fine. They just have no idea how hard it can

be.

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