PEX effective for Obsessive thinking?

[NMom]

We are considering PEX for our ds. His main symptom at this point is the obsessional part of OCD. He's constantly worried that he's done something inappropriate or hurt someone's feelings or lied, etc, His feelings .. especially of guilt.. are totally out of proportion to actual events. At one time he had a whole series of compulsions as well...making things even, counting, etc....but all that stopped as did most of his tics. Now it's just this obsessive over thinking and extreme feelings of guilt that are robbing him of some of the things he used to love. But most pex stories I've heard were successful for tics ...anyone seen pex help with the emotional/mental obsessions?

[peglem]

In one of Swedo's talks about the PEX/IVIG trial, she gives an example of a girl who was crippled by germaphobia OCD. After PEX, she convinced Swedo that she was feeling better by touching the hazardous waste bin in her hospital room and then licking her hand.

[PowPow]

One of my daughter's first symptoms to improve after pex was obsessive thoughts. She would sob every single night for hours because of the guilty, scrupulous and religious (who knows what else?) thoughts that would prevent her from sleeping. It was heartbreaking. We had been home for about a week when I realized that she had gone to sleep with crying for several days! That symtpom has not returned. Her pex was in January.

[NMom]

Thank you! That's what I needed to hear...hope!