Unbelievable!!!!!!

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Well I just got a call from 's therapist at residential and I'm

getting more and more pissed about her " not buying the whole OCD

thing. " !!!!!!!!!!

She obviously has no clue about OCD!! She keeps saying OCD is when you just

count things over and over or wash your hands over and over. She doesn't get

it!! She has no clue about the doing thing's until it " feels right " or how

certain thing's that they are forcing to do like remove her shoes on

command cause anxiety or anger because of 's " fear of stepping on

something " even though can clearly see that there is nothing to step on!

The

therapist keeps saying that that's just being defiant!! I asked her

" if that's just being defiant, then how do you explain her fear of not

being able to sit on a toilet because of germs or having to always remove the

first few piece's of toilet paper before using it? " In my mind, these are

obsessions and compulsions!! And I've told her I've been apart of this group on

here quite a while and many kids have these same issues too. So she said

" well maybe she hears you talking about these things and so she's just copying

them! " Good God!!!!! Even if that were the case......doesn't she even know

that sometimes with OCD, just hearing about someone else's compulsions can in

fact trigger the same compulsion for an OCDer!!! She obviously knows NOTHING

about OCD!!!!! I'm so angry!!!!! I even told her that although I've never

been officially diagnosed with OCD myself.....I've always thought that I have a

mild case of it myself. And I told her as things are coming up with ,

I'm even remembering things I did when I was 's age that really bothered

me.....like having to turn off a light switch several times until it felt

" just right " . I'm only starting to remember little things. So she says.... " oh

then must hear you talk about these things, so she's copying them from

you as an excuse for being defiant. " OMG!!!!!!!

I don't know what to do. This is really making me crazy with anger about

this residential facility. I'm going to call the person on the school board and

tell them about this and see what they say. I'm sure she'll say.... " there's

always Utah. " .....which isn't the answer unless they really do KNOW about OCD

and how to treat it.