Success Stories? Survivors of Severe OCD?

[michiganpandas]

we have a success story.....my dd was very severe with intense ocd fears.....was non-functional at onset for about 2 months.....then slowly went through the small ups and continued big downs, but never free of the ocd. Finally with time (1 1/2 years)....my daughter started doing a lot better. Attends school (voted President of her school which makes me beyond proud)....She is a now a "normal" child. Now is she completely free of ocd....not entirely, but she understands it and recognizes it and gets past it fairly quickly. She used to do compulsions all day long...maybe 100 x's per day....now it's maybe 5 times per week! which is no big deal...we can handle that!

 

*this is what helped us......5 day steroid burst along with keflex antibiotic 10 days.

*rothman center 3 week intensive ocd therapy

*treating with antibiotics when ocd returns all day long (have had to do this 2 x's since January...it helped clear it both times)

*sadly had to stop an activity that she loved and was really good at, but due to ocd she had too many panic attacks there.....I think this is why some kids need to also end up being homeschooled for the same reason....sometimes it's just too hard to get past the fear of the panic and it's associated at that place

*TIME

 

stressful situations....we always have the following with us just in case:

rescue remedy drops

ibuprofun

pepto

calming creme