Intro and Question about Imagination and Forced Play

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Hello Fellow OCD Fighters,

My name is M, and I am mom to 8.5 year old son just recently diagnosed with

OCD and GAD. I have been lurking on this web group about a month had have

learned/received a lot of support. Thanks!

My son has had the " quirks " for years and over the past 8 months shifted to

violent rages which got us moving in a big way to find out what was going on. To

make a long story short, we have a psycologist at a major medical centre (we

live in Ontario, Canada - Hi Barb!) who is doing all the things you parents

suggest so she must be okay We also see a naturopath (son is terrible eater)

who added things like omega/fish oils, iron and an herbal tinture which calmed

the rages (they converted to much shorter crying fits).

We are still working out the hierarchy and learning what is going on in that

smart and sweet mind of his. We see some equalizing - both physical

(touching)and " fairness " , the odd bad thought and something is going on with

eating. Oh yeah, " germs " (magnified by 3 yr old brother's potty training).

My question is this - Last night when complimented on his last soccer game of

the season, son explained that it wasn't that great because he had been forced

to not pay complete attention to the soccer game as his brain was telling him to

play an imagination game (one he likes to do at home) and be a knight marching

instead of a kid soccer player.

That made us parents raise eyebrows at each other. Anybody else's OCD

masquarading as King Arthur and directing the play? Or any other such examples

of forced imaginary " play " ? Or is this a symptom of something else?

Thanks in advance for responses - a wish you all relaxed long weekends!

M