My 14 year old daughter has ocd, she used to have intrusive thoughts that she seemed reassurance for all of the time, this was when she was around 8 , this continued for a while and then seemed to subside, she started her periods early at 9 and once this happened, things seemed to calm down. She is now14, at Xmas she had a friend to stay who picked her nose in the bed they were sharing and Gracie has to go into another room for fear of the bogie being in the bed. The next day I changed the covers etc and TK kings went back to normal. Since this things have got worse about 6 weeks ago a boy at her school who she says always picks his nose, touched her coat, and then the girls she sat next to on school bus picked her nose and she though the bogie must be on her, she came home took her stuff off outside door and showered, that was last time I could get her to school, now we can’t nose breath, touch our faces, itch nose without her going into a major melt down as then we may touch something, etc etc and so the contamination begins, we went to a clinical psychologist who had a bogie up her nose, I had to pay 95 pounds and we were there for ten Mia as she got so distressed and had a major panic attack, she got home had to put all of our clothes in
Bin bags and both had to shower, I had to clean car out and everywhere. This is a regular thing, I could be crying and all she worries about is if snot is coming out of
My nose, she is normally as caring lovely placid child and now she is abrupt, angry and doesn’t really care anything, her older sister hardly comes home now and when she does is accused of breathing on her and ruining the whole day. We have seen
Counsellors who don’t help and I am currently in a waiting list for an ocd centre where the therapist have all experienced ocd. I think it will be an intensive course, just wondered if anyone had done this intensive therapy and how it went and is anyone else had the trigger of bogies- snot, even if a bit of food she has left in her area that we can’t go in she will convince herself it’s a bogie.
Her bedroom
I’d her safe place she says, so none can go in and one sofa and a place in front of the fire!!! 6 weeks ago things were so different, although she never put her toothbrush with ours and used her own towel etc, we aren’t allowed to hug her for fear of us
Nose breathing!
Just wondered if anyone had any advise for parents too
Many thanks