Newly Diagnosed

February 2, 2007

Hello,

My son just had an MRI and it came back with pmg. He is 9 months olds.

He cannot sit up unassisted, but loves to stand (with us holding him

of course). He just started army crawling around. The daycare lady

says that sometimes she turns around and he is gone. He doesn't seem

to have a problem eating (except with a spoon, it seems to freak him

out), and he seems normal intelligence wise. He watches little

Einstein, loves the dog, laughs at our older son etc... I was just

wondering if anyone out there can offer some advise?

Thanks,

Traci

February 2, 2007

Hey group...does any one have the Dr. Dobyns information accessible for Traci??

There have been alot of postings in the past on him as well... we live in

Connecticut, and it was worth the journey out to Chicago... If you dont

hear back, email me personally and I'll look it up for you,

jhasselberger@...

Peace,

, Mom to age 9

traciloo11 wrote:

Thanks. We live in Cailfornia. How do I get in tough with this Dr.

Dobyns?

> Hello,

> My son just had an MRI and it came back with pmg. He is 9 months

olds.

> He cannot sit up unassisted, but loves to stand (with us holding

him

> of course). He just started army crawling around. The daycare lady

> says that sometimes she turns around and he is gone. He doesn't

seem

> to have a problem eating (except with a spoon, it seems to freak

him

> out), and he seems normal intelligence wise. He watches little

> Einstein, loves the dog, laughs at our older son etc... I was just

> wondering if anyone out there can offer some advise?

>

> Thanks,

> Traci

>

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February 2, 2007

Traci, your son sounds like a doll. All you can do is watch him, and

alert the doctor if you notice anything that appears to be seizure

activity. Not all of our children develope seizures, and he might be

one of the lucky ones who don't.

Good luck !

and my Angel Crystal Aquielle

> Hello,

> My son just had an MRI and it came back with pmg. He is 9 months

olds.

> He cannot sit up unassisted, but loves to stand (with us holding

him

> of course). He just started army crawling around. The daycare lady

> says that sometimes she turns around and he is gone. He doesn't

seem

> to have a problem eating (except with a spoon, it seems to freak

him

> out), and he seems normal intelligence wise. He watches little

> Einstein, loves the dog, laughs at our older son etc... I was just

> wondering if anyone out there can offer some advise?

>

> Thanks,

> Traci

>

April 11, 2012

There are some fantastic youtube videos on all aspects of OCD. I think you get

to them through the OCD Foundation website - look for media or something like

that. A beautiful young lady talks about her journey out of OCD and describes

perfectly how it feels for the benefit of non-ocs.

Newly Diagnosed

My 12 year old daughter is newly diagnosed with OCD. She is in the hands of a

good therapist specializing in children and adolescents and I am truly grateful

to finally find someone to help us. For years I thought she was just being

" difficult " and I was just a bad parent for giving in to her often scary and out

of proportion reactions to not getting her way or trying to get her to leave the

house on time. She currently takes 2 hours and 45 minutes to leave the house.

I feel guilty about the years I have yelled at her for being disrespectful or

stubborn or both. I have been chastised by friends, family and loved ones for

giving in to her tantrums or letting her " run my household. " How do I help her

without enabling her and how do I get my support team, who has always been there

for me, to support me now and understand that this is something she cannot help

and she is not acting this way on purpose?

August 1, 2012

Welcome! Does your daughter's therapist specialize in OCD using ERP (exposure

and responses prevention)? That is really important because not all therapists,

even very good ones, are skilled at treating OCD with this state of the art

treatment. If the therapist is skilled at treating OCD, she should be able to

guide you as to what to stop doing, while at the same time letting your

daughter know that you are all working together for the common goal of beating

back the hold OCD has on her. The therapist should be making a hierarchy of her

fears/obsessions with the resulting compulsions, and then together she should be

helping her to tackle these starting at the low end of the hierarchy. This

needs to be done systematically, and as they are working through these fears,

she should be practicing her ERP at home with your support and help.

As far as getting others who care about you and her to support you and

understand about OCD, it is really up to the person. If they are open to it,

you could give them one of the great books on childhood OCD to read, or at least

an article about it. Still, OCD is very hard to understand if you don't have

it, and it is probably more natural for them to assume that this is just a

strong willed child who wants her way, rather than one behaving this way to cope

with her fears/obsessions. I have had to be strong through the years and do

what is right for my kids, even when those I love most didn't get what is going

on with my kids. My dad is closest to my kids next to me, and since I have OCD,

he has dealt with a child of his own having OCD, yet, he just doesn't get it a

lot of the time. I have to realize that there is nothing I can do to make him

see things from a different perspective if he believes strongly in his own view

of what is going on. Sometimes he is understanding, but most of the time, he

either acts like it is not there or he loses it and gets annoyed about it.'

This group can be a good source of support for you because we have all been

going through similar things.