Re: Digest Number 2072

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dear sarah,

hi, i am ellie and my daughter, katie sounds so much like yours! she turns 13

on nov. 29th and has probably had ocd her whole life, looking back, however

she has been diagnosed for @ 2.5 years now. we have tried meds for @ 10 months

and so far not much luck. she constantly wants to confess or seek reassurance

and these things have been directed toward me for most of the time. it is

especially hard at bedtime and often causes her to get to bed very late and

often

with a disagreement with my husband and i. therefore, i have come to dread her

saying goodnoght to me and that feels really bad. she will insist on telling

me thought about how she tried to kill people, hurt her younger brothers and

sisters, poison herself or others and it goes on and on. it has been very

upsetting to the whole family and of course to katie.

she has been instructed through her therapy with different thing she can do

at this difficult time, but she fights using these techniques. she will,

however, insist to me that they are NOT ocd, but rather they are real things and

thoughts that she did or tried to do. we are currently waiting to start a

program

at univ. of pa. that does alot of cbt and erp and i don't honestly know if

katie will particpate, so i am nervous. but we are at our wits end and looking

for something to ease this a little for her. anyway, it was comforting, at

some level, to know others are dealing with this, and our family is not so

strange, as it would appear to others who don't understand. it is even hard to

talk

to my mother about this because i feel like she thinks i could be saying or

doing something different and that would help. i feel though that we have done

nothing but try to work on this ever since it has been diagnosed. thanks for

listening!

ellie