Hope everyone is doing ok, hope Annie does better......

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Hi all...I hope Annie feels better, school stress is the major factor

in a childs OCD, I firmly believe that. Does she have someone her

own age that has ocd that she can talk to that understands what she

is feeling? would like to talk to her if she wants to (Mo is

going to be 13 next saturday.)

refuses to go to her english class, but I support her decision

after meeting her teacher. I could not believe Mo when she told me

that this woman made her feel out of place, etc... until I met her.

This woman had absolutely no sympathy about our situation and was on

the verge of implying that was " making up this illness "

because she does not believe in it. I was in a room with 6 or 7

other teachers, the school psychologist and guidance counselor,

principal and vice principal when this " teacher " was sitting across

the table from me and had the, " should just suck it up and

deal with whatever her problem is " comments. I smiled at her and put

her in her place, in the nicest way possible I assure you. The funny

part of it all was as she sat there and had her attitude, my

daughters math teacher looked at me and said he was sorry for what we

had to go through because he knew of someone that had it.

We finally got all the paperwork done and was accepted into an

OHI program at school (other health impaired). She is not the same

child she was last october. She came into the house yesterday so

excited about school again, I have not seen that side of her since

last August. She goes to the OHI classroom 4 to 5 classes per day

and regular classes 2 or 3 per day. In the OHI room there is maybe 6-

8 kids in the class. They placed her with 8th graders because of her

test results and maturity level also. She seems like the " other "

I knew before all of the OCD became full blown. She is still

on 100 mg of zoloft and has not been in to talk to her therapist in 6

weeks.

Hope everyone is doing ok, remember take care of yourselves

also...talk to you soon.

le (Daughter 13 severe ocd and depression)

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Chris:

It is unfortunate that your school does not have classes like that, I

just assumed all schools did as they are becoming a necessity in

todays day and age with the way some kids are being raised. I am

proud of how she is doing.

was hurt last night by a 15 year old boy when her and her two

cousins were walking to the gas station about 8pm. He spit at her

younger cousin and she told him to knock it off and get lost and he

shoved her to the ground to which she received a bloody nose. I was

called by the police deparment (by an officer that I knew) and I told

the officer that she was ocd and she may get panicky with the bloody

nose and that I would be right there. I got there and she was

extremely calm and mad at the kid that did that to her. I made sure

they pressed charges against him, he was charged with disorderly

conduct and battery, picked up at home, (he panicked and ran when he

saw she got the bloody nose), brought to the police station and

transferred to juvenile detention where he is now sitting yet today,

(ha, ha, ha, ha). Its the safest place he could be right now as far

as I am concerned...he can sit and rot.

To make a long story short, she handled herself very well under the

circumstances and did not " freak out " . She was more calm I think

than I was.

Now for the fun part, she now decided she wants to take up self

defense, which I think will be good for her for teaching her self

discipline, something that I think would be good for someone with ocd.

We live in such a safe place that I never even thought of it, but I

learned a valuable lesson, even the safest places can have mean

people waiting to wreak havoc on nice people.

In @y..., " " <@h...> wrote:

> le, good for you for standing up to that teacher! I'm such a

> wimp myself, I like hearing the success stories! Sounds like

> 's school must be set up different than ours, I don't believe

> we're lucky enough to have a class like that here. can do

> grade level work and keep up (mentally, the actual physical task of

> writing is the tough part for him, plus the OCD distractions) but I

> think we only have the spec ed type classes for those who have a

hard

> time with grade level work. I could be wrong. And on an

> emotional/behavior type level, he's much younger than his age of

13,

> IMO, so putting him up a grade probably wouldn't work. Anyway,

I'm

> glad is excited about school again! Keep us updated on how

> things progress!

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