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I am new here to the parenting list. My name is Cheri and I live in

Tucson, Az. I am a mother to six children, our oldest is 22 yrs old

and our youngest is 7 yrs old. We have 5 girls and 1 boy. I am here

because of our 8 1/2 yr old son, Garrison. Garrison is our 5th child

and our only boy. Garrison was dx with ADHD when he was 5 yrs old,

he is medicated for the ADHD. He was just dx with OCD a month ago,

although we knew he had it long before the official Dx. We are

seeing a therapist, who is working with us on " Bossing Back " the

OCD. We have had two appts with her thus far and it's a 16 to 20

week program.

We had never heard of bossing back or even a treatment for ocd, so

that is very new to us and seemingly difficult. We also were not

aware until now, how badly we as a family have been sucked into

Garrison's OCD. We cater to it, and it's taken over our daily

lives. We will need to retrain ourselves as much as our son. I

think I am going to have the biggest changes of anyone, for I am his

main caregiver and I am guilty of allowing this to take over and I

didn't even know it. I am part of his daily rituals and routines

now. It's become so day to day, I don't even notice doing things but

I do... all day long! I feel badly that I helped this grow into what

it is today. It makes me sad.

In the packet we were given it mentioned support groups and that

linked us to this website. I hope to learn more about OCD and

treatments over time. Ya'll are much busier than I am able to keep

up with on a daily basis but I will try and jump in as time goes on.

I am interested in hearing more about tics because this is something

I tried to address with one of Garrison's previous Dr's but was blown

off more or less. Garrison repeats himself under his breath and I

have read somewhere, this can be a type of tic. Anyone know if this

is really the case? We have a whole new Dr and councilor now, so we

are making huge headway already, just getting the Dx finally and with

that we already have a 504 and we are only 3 weeks into the school

yr. Life is getting better and better. We have not addressed the

repeating with Garrison's new " staff " yet but we will. We have only

been to 4 total appts between the two. We are already overwelmed

with the bossing back but I saw it mentioned in a thread I previewed

and wanted to ask other's who may know. Garrison is not medicated

for the OCD.

Thank you for approving us to this board of information.

Cheri