school

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He everyone. My son started school yesterday. He only made it a

couple of hours. They were discussing why good marks are important

for college (he's only in gr. 8). He already had the worry that he

won't be able to hold a job when he grows up because of ocd. Now

he's also worried that he won't be able to handle college and then

won't get a good job. He had to call home from school almost every

day for the last half of last year for me to pick him up. He just

switched meds from cipralex to zoloft a couple wks ago and he's

already up to 200mgs a day with no side effects so hopefully this

will be the med that works for him. I've been trying to come up

with a way to keep him at school all day. He was having really bad

anxiety attacks at bedtime because he said that the compulsions he

had to do were like torture and didn't want to go through it all.

We started letting him play his DS for 10 min after he gets into bed

and before he does him compulsions. This helped him skip the hour

long anxiety attack but we still do all the compulsions. It seems

to be a major relief for us all anyway. I was thinking that when

his anxiety is so bad at school that he needs to call home, that

instead they could let him go to the health room and play his DS for

the rest of the period. He would then have something to get his

mind off the anxiety and have a fresh start for the next class.

This would perhaps have him only miss 20 min. of class instead of

the 2-3 hrs. that he misses when the comes home. I'm not sure if

this would be a good thing to start or not. I'm not sure what the

school would think of that either. I just really want him to be at

school as much as possible. Any opinions or experience would be

apprieciated.