Re: New Here..My 8 Year Old Son Has It Too..- MAYBE PANDAS?

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Hi - I think you are doing all the right thing for your son & am so glad that

ERP therapy is helping. We did this for our daughter and it was so helpful to

her. I did want to say however, that sudden onset OCD in a young child is often

a clinical sign of PANDAS. You may want to check this out a little more - sorry

if I am repeating someone else, I am way behind on this busy board!!! PANDAS,

especially if the first episode, does wane as well. However, if you are still

concerned, or if he has another exacerbation, you may want to check out PANDAS -

there are now some doctors around the country that are treating these children

very successfully, and more research is happening now. Our daughter has PANDAS,

and has now had 3 extreme exacerbations. Now that we have medical treatment to

combine with ERP, she is doing extremely well and we finally have hope that we

may be able to control this.

Especially for parents that can remember a day or a week that their child's life

changed - it's a huge red flag. If you need more info, let us know. Best -

in NC

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> Hello all,

> The same thing happened to my son 1 month ago and we were

> shocked at the thoughts that he was having.

> He is also 8 years old and he is a very sweet child.

>

> On December 19th, he said " mom, I am having some horrible

> thoughts and I can't stop them or get them to go away. "

> He began crying and started going into detail about the thoughts.

> He said that he was having thoughts of sex with everyone that he

> sees-(both males & females)He said that he had thoughts of killing everyone in

the house. He kept crying and said that they were not

> how he really feels and that he would never do anything bad but the

> thoughts were popping into his head and wouldn't go away.

>

> My husband & I were at a complete loss for words because our son

> has never seen any really bad movies involving sex and killing.

> However, he does have a PS 2 game system and some of the games

> do have some pretty graphic fighting scenes in them. Needless

> to say, I have destroyed all the games that he had which had

> a rating above " E " -for everyone.

>

> When my son was telling me his thoughts, I began to seriously

> think that he was possessed by a demonic spirit. I was really

> beginning to worry for everyone's safety as I have 2 other

> children in the house. (an 18 month old and a 3 year old)