juliederrick-Helping Children with OCD & Revision

What is parenting childhood OCD like?
It's thoroughly miserable, as I discovered when my then fourteen-year-old daughter was diagnosed with severe contamination OCD.

The more I fed it...
The more it controlled.
Until it finally had us all under its thumb and ruled almost every aspect of our lives.

🟣 We didn't have people around in case they were 'contaminated'.
🟣 We stopped going out as it was easier than having to keep scanning people and places for potential contamination risks
🟣 We were all doing all manner of bizarre compulsions for a quiet life

We couldn't even confide in others. It became our little "secret".

We feared that people wouldn't understand why we were all being controlled by an invisible bully...or that our daughter was going mad.

Thank goodness we eventually got the professional help that we needed, and our daughter finally got her life back from OCD.

I want that for you too.

That's why I created this channel.

#childhoodocd #parentingocd #ocdtps