Guest guest Posted January 1, 2003 Report Share Posted January 1, 2003 Hello to all, My 6 yr old son, Preston, was diagnosed yesterday with OCD and ADHD. What a difference a day makes. My husband and I realized on Christmas eve that we were definitely dealing with OCD. Classic textbook stuff. Preston's obsessions are " naughty " words, saying them, thinking them. He's also preoccupied with boogers and " slobber. " His compulsion is checking with us to make sure he's not in trouble for thinking and saying the words repetitively. And apologizing for getting boogers on everything (or so his tired little brain believes) He also has various fears and a fast growing interest in the perfect stacking of a few pokemon cards he carries all over. I almost forgot, add sock trauma to the mix as well. Before we figured out for ourselves his checking was ocd, we were calling it " autotattletaleia " to try to bring some humor to the whole thing. We started him on 5 mg of Paxil last night because I have used paxil successfully for depression in the past. Is it too soon for him to be bouncing off the walls already? We just returned home from dinner and he is like a monkey on speed! He's trying to cope and of course is apologizing every fifteen seconds for his manic watoosie and he's also trying to make us laugh with jokes and slapstick that have us leaping out of our seats to grab, shush, quiet and redirect him. I'm so glad to find this site. Any words of wisdom about paxil. Can it effect his little system this quickly (24hrs)? He's always been our " wild child " but today seems to be off the charts. Yours with every last nerve jangling, curiousmum2002 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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