A mostly OK holiday!

[Guest guest]

Hope everyone had a great, mostly OCD-free holiday! Ours was pretty

relaxing but only because I took some exra days off from work. Have

to go back tomorrow though. <sigh>

Poor . I don't know if it's OCD-related since it's classified

as an " anxiety " disorder. But Christmas morning, before we even went

downstairs, there he was in the bathroom throwing up! Whenever

there's something he's looking really forward to, like Christmas,

it's like he's so anxious he works himself up to a point and gets

sick. He reminded me that he's done this other Christmas mornings,

and thinking back on it, I remembered he's right! He's fine the rest

of the day.

Later that night, his older brother took a Game Boy game that he

hadn't been playing for a while and started a new game on it, erasing

's file. hadn't quite won the game, but really he

hadn't played it much in the past couple months, although he was at

the last stage. Well, this brought on tears and sort of a " raging "

OCD " getting stuck " episode. I've mentioned he's a weird-OCD type,

he was lying on the bed, one leg stuck up in the air, a hand stuck

around his neck/head and it took countless tries to get his leg

down " right " and then he could get his hand " off " his head. His

loudness brought his grandma upstairs to see what was going on. She

still doesn't get OCD, asked him what hurt! So, with one of my hands

on his leg below his knee (I have to be touching him, yeah I know I'm

enabling) he took lots of tries to get his leg down, I guess

until " it felt right. " <sigh> This was like around 11 pm when it

began and I just wanted him " quiet! " I kept telling him (as always)

that he'd never get it " right " if he didn't quit crying and

concentrate on it. That sometimes helps.

Well, other than that, it was a pretty good Christmas! I did feel

his OCD was " up " somewhat, but with everything " going on " with the

gifts and playing, didn't get all his usual doses of his

inositol; more like 2x day rather than the usual 3x. Actually, with

the kids probably sleeping in these holidays while I leave for work,

he'll not be getting his usual " before school " dose unless I wake him

up. I'll have to think about that....

Happy Holidays!