Another article

[Johnsmom]

http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2010/11/16/strep-throat-ocd-autism/

[MomWithOCDSon]

Interesting. I think more of us should post comments, especially in the face of someone like this "David White" who appears to, perhaps, attempting to profit off OCD misery.

[kimballot]

Well... I am not sure who PANDAS Mom is - (I am assuming it is someone from this forum)... but PANDAS Mom is very articulate and SPOT-ON I am going to quote her response here just because I want to be able to find it again sometime when I am completely emotional and need to present a rational response to something....

 

Also - if PANDAS mom reads this and wants to identify herself, I'd love to know who it is! (You can PM me if you want)

 

David, with all due respect to you and the therapy and sheer perseverance in the face of OCD, this is not about psychological self-help. This is about a MEDICAL condition which, treated MEDICALLY, goes a long way toward setting you on the right path to healing and managing OCD for a lifetime. My family lives and breathes in a world of PANDAS OCD, and without antibiotics, all of the therapy, tough love, and "gumption" in the world would not have rescued our son from the depths of his compulsions. When an auto-immune condition is at the root of an illness like OCD, you can only treat it successfully and long-term by treating that medical disorder. Therapy certainly plays a part, because you have to manage the behavior while you take the slow road toward physical healing and immune balance. But it's time for everyone -- sufferers, families of sufferers, medical professionals and mental health professionals -- to pull their collective heads out of the sand and, at the very least, definitively RULE OUT the potential role of microbes and auto-immune conditions in mental illness. Otherwise, you're just slapping a Band-Aid on a gushing wound.

 

Not to minimize your situation, however. Props to you for your journey and recovery; I wish you only the best. But let's not take our eyes off the prize here: maybe you wouldn't have had as tough a journey as you did if the fields of medical and mental health were more curious, studied, prepared, investigatory, open-minded, cooperative and willing to consider our minds and bodies as ONE vehicle, in need of holistic consideration, rather than two entirely unrelated components when it comes to these "mental illnesses."

[EAMom]

yes, great response PANDASmom!

[Fixit]

http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2010/11/16/strep-throat-ocd-autism/

 

Bravo..Pandas mom!!!