My daughter is 15 years old she has a diagnosis of OCD ADHD & moderate learning difficulties she also has anxiety which triggers her rituals which include making people say things 3 times she gets around it when embarrassed to ask them to say it 3 times. . She has been weeping on her bedroom floor to help ti save her vetoing in & out the room cause doors cause her agitation we have offered to remove the door but she said it won’t help her.
These continue dat & night & send her into violent rages which are putting school
At risk even home cause she was setting fires on the conservatory & ended up being sectioned not sure the act but on capacity & saw 2 mental health doctors in the local mental health hospital she came home with us because when she is calm she exhibits no threat she is just like a lost little girl.
Does anybody have any advice she asks for help every day & CYPS said she is too anxious to do any therapy and doesn’t have capacity to understand which I believe she does have more capacity than they give her credit for.
I almost feel she is punished fir violent outbursts that she can’t help
She takes respiridone 1 mg per day
Sertraline 150 mg
Elvanse 40 mg
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This must be really distressing for you, for your family and for her. The rituals can be so frustrating and exhausting and lead to the angry outbursts and the violent rages.
This thing about doorways isn't unusual in OCD. I've had it for many years. There actually used to be an OCD website called 'Stuck in a Doorway'.
There is some discussion about the coincidence of OCD and ADHD and that the medication used for ADHD can make the OCD worse. I can't comment on this with any authority, but it may be worth checking out.
It's interesting that you say that your daughter has more capacity than she is given credit for. Both OCD and ADHD can cause slowness at school and with learning generally, and this may been holding her back more than is realized.
Here are a couple of articles that may be of interest. One is rather full of scientific language, but the other is aimed at the general reader.
She should be offered CBT if at all possible. Medication can only do so much, and CBT can help enormously. My heart goes out to you. It's truly horrible having OCD, and it puts pressure on family and friends as well.
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