Guest guest Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 My son, who is 10 years old, is having an OCD flare-up right now. Whenever he has these flare-ups, there are certain behaviors that seem to go along with it, even though I have a hard time understanding how it is related to OCD. The one that is very difficult to deal with is that he will trip over anything and everything and then super exaggerate how much pain he is in and gets super mad when I don't give him a lot of attention for this. He doesn't do this at other times when the OCD is not flaring up, so I know there is a connection to the OCD. But I still don't understand it. Is it an obsession about pain, about not getting attention, or what? It seems if I had a clue what the obsession is really about, I might be able to help more. Maybe it's just anger that I don't give the response he wants and his brain has difficulty dealing with that reality? Any ideas on how to handle this? I think I posted about this once before and did get some suggestions on not giving a lot of attention for this. But is there anything else I can do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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