Re: Seeing cats and hearing her name called. Anyone else's child experiencing th

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Kim:

Although our daughter was not hallucinating, we were in much the same

place a few years ago. Very bright, very academically oriented, very

college bound. She insisted on going to college and making it all

work, despite anxiety about social contact and showering.

We hoped that she would work some things out by having a single room

and the support of disabled student services, but she basically

spiralled downward. She lived at school for the entire school year but

basically didn't finish but one class - for the whole year. after

coming home for the summer and being in holding mode for three months,

she's now in a residential program for OCD () and is doing well

so far.

In retrospect I can see that we all had great intentions and

motivations in having her go to school, but I wish we had formulated a

n alternate plan that was more of a halfway step to independent living

- maybe in an apartment close to home and doing local community

college, or something like that.

The stress of being away at school, classes, total responsibility for

herself, and her anxiety and OCD was a lot for her to juggle.

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> Hello All,

>

> Been a long time since I have posted. Life with OCD has kept us very

> busy this past year. Reading over some of the stories, seeing ppl who

> were suffering so much when I last read here doing well now is very

> encouraging.

>

> Been through a lot of ups and downs, daughter now 17 had to be

> hospitalized at Easter,

......... She goes

> off to university next September and we're hoping we can get this

> under control this year. Sharing a bathroom and laundry facilities

> will be so hard for her. She's meeting with another psychiatrist

> tomorrow and entering a program that helps deal with ocd and anxiety.

> We have a year to get her to a point where she at least has some

> coping skills.

> .

.....

>

> Love to hear your input everyone. About the seeing things and hearing

> things?

>

> Thanks,

> Kim

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