Hello I am new to these boards and have been avidly reading and absorbing all the info. I have been a counter my entire life and also count letters in words when people are talking to me. It has never bothered me and so I never considered it to be an OCD thing. I do have a cousin with OCD and Tourettes however. My eight year old son has always been a very neat boy, never had to tell him to clean his room. He has always liked things "a certain way" and he goes through stages where certain things bother him and then he gets over it. Like for about a month he would get annoyed if all the dining room chairs were not pushed in all the way so he would push them in all the time but then he got over it. Now though about two months ago it all got a lot worse. He has multiple things bothering him and gets very upset about it which he never used to. He wipes things a lot for no reason except he says he thinks he scratched it. He checks the toilet lid all the time to see if it is down. Etc. He has been very grumpy about it all since it got worse which I can understand. I homeschool him and so that suddenly has gotten difficult as well because we are constantly being interrupted by something bothering him. Also around the same time he started getting very clingy. He attends a homeschool program one day a week and now gets headaches (I am guessing from anxiety) every week which never happened before. This all began around the time our newest baby was born. My 8 year old is so excited about the baby and not an ounce jealous and has been super helpful but still maybe all of this is related to some kind of anxiety due to the changes? I'm not sure, he did not react this way when his two sisters were born. Anyways his doctor recommended we wait on referring him because maybe it will go away or lessen as things calm down. In the meantime I feel helpless and so I am trying to find anything I can do to help the situation. I have been researching all the natural remedy stuff and he is taking a multivitamin and an OMega 3 fish oil supplement now. I would like to start him on Inositol from what I read and St John's wort but his doctor doesn't seem to know anything about any of this stuff. I have no clue what dosages would be okay to give him or what things are okay to combine? He weighs about 50 lbs. Any advice on behavioural therapy type stuff I can work with him on at home would be appreciated along with recommendations on natural remedies to give him. His anxiety levels seem normal to me at home but are obviously not when he is at school one day a week so any recommendations on something that might help with that as well would be appreciated. Thanks so much.
Alaina
