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Okay, I rarely get discouraged or angry, but I received a call from my

daughter's school today. My daughter is 7, recently diagnosed with OCD, been on

Zoloft for appx 3 weeks now. I've noticed super hyper in the past couple of

weeks. Her meds are administered in the a.m. now vs p.m. due to the fact that

she'd be up for 1-4 hours during the middle of the night, therefore, her peak

active period is now at school. Anyways, the school calls me today stating that

my daughter has been recently deliberately distracting the other kids during

class. My daughter kept repeating the teachers name outloud but using a silly

last name instead like Mrs. Wall, or Mrs. Homework, or Mrs. Spongebob. The

teacher was unable to control these outbursts and sent her to the back of the

class, where my daughter continued these outbursts. She was then sent to the

school's office where she had to sit until the end of the day when we picked

her up. I talked with the teacher, who is fully aware of what is going on with

our daughter, including information on the meds she is taking, her present

compulsions and obsessions, and her response was " this cannot continue to happen

in the classroom, you're going to have to start disciplining her more severely

at home " . Apparently, she feels these outbursts are being done for attention. I

completely disagree as our daughter has never displayed this type of behavior in

the past. The teacher continued to go on to tell me " the timing of these

outbursts were very unfortunate as another parent was in the classroom observing

the whole thing " . Hello!!! How this looks to another parent is the least of my

concerns.

I could use some help on how to respond to this teacher. I really feel these

outbursts from my daughter is just a new compulsion/obsession surfacing. I know

it's not being done intentionally. I've put a call into her Psychiatrist asking

what we should do next. I'm hoping we can do 1/2 the meds in the a.m. and the

other 1/2 at night. I think this would really help with the over hyperness

during the school period. I'd appreciate any advice. I'm sticking up for my

daughter 100%. This is the disease, not my daughter being disruptive. I would

think the teachers would understand that! Ughhh!