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HOW CAN YOU REASSURE SOMEONE WHO HAS EXTREME OCD

NAS83382

Hi

I have spoken about my son who is withdrawing from 13 ys of antipsychotics and how anxious i am for the real him to emerge.

At the same time I am trying to support my older son who's extreme OCD that made him isolate himself in his room for 12 years from 2006 i think it was, and now is trying to help me with his younger brother, and he is, he is doing a good job and I tell him he is, but there are times we lock horns, we are both stressed and tired.

How do you help someone with OCD to stop over analizing everything you say? When it need not have been an arguement in the first place. I have faced this situation for years with my eldest. He is also someone that once hes decided on something that may have been an emotional decision of years ago, he remembers that person (himself) and still goes with it.

OCD is very hard, my youngest used to say (off drugs) as one thought that had consumed him goes, another one would come along and take its place.

Any thoughts about the OCD? I am still also after comments about my youngest and the drugs. (: WearyWorried

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  • As far as I'm aware, you can't just reassure someone with ocd. That's kind of the point, it is obsessive and compulsive.  

    It's probable that no one has commented about the drugs because they don't know.  This is a forum where a handful of autistic people hang out in between trying to deal with real life. We aren't experts and certainly don't have the answers to everything.  These are the kind of questions that might be better directed at a doctor.

  • in reply to Glitter

    yes, i realise that all lives answers aren't here, however, doctors aren't always the best judges,, or i wouldnt be in the situation i have been in with my son and medication  and the damage its done.

    yes, i realise it might be  hang out in these forums ti some, but others lke me are looking for answers and i am seeing some really difficult situations that couldn't esiy lead to what i have experienced with my family.

    if you ever or anyone finds themselves in my situation and faced with Doctors who just want to chuck pills at you. they often say when they are scuffling for answers to their errors "lets us mum the reals expert" they might be gesting, but any mums out there, you know what i mean

  • in reply to NAS83382

    Actually no, I don't know what you mean. I have not the same experience with doctors.

    We are all going through difficult situations. I personally am currently in therapy for complicated grief over the death of a parent while coming to terms with childhood abuse. At the same time trying to negotiate emerging relationships with my two estranged siblings, stress from major changes at work, and my own inpending autism assessment and all the implications of that.

    If there are any easy answers I would love to hear them, but I'm pretty sure that if such a thing had been discovered it would not be kept a secret for long.  It's just that life gives us stuff to carry and we have to learn to struggle along with it.

  • in reply to Glitter

    i was answering someone else, i havent a handle on these chats forums, but sorry what you have gone throught, actually can relate too to some of what you have gone through, but the priority for me right now is getting my son through  very tough time

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