samantha13

Hi Snowbear Thank you for your patience with me. I have the book overcoming ocd by David veale and rob willson which I will read but I am all but at the end of my tether with my son. Everyday he goes further down the rabbit hole and I can't really even see him anymore.

Hi Snowbear Thank you for your feedback I wish I had the balls to just tell it like it is but I just can't. Maybe it's because I don't understand the illness enough. Maybe when he gets help I will be able to talk about it more. He has been in touch with our local mental health service but this is not his first attempt to get help so it is hard to stay positive. I don't think he has ever seen a therapist who really knows about OCD and is well practiced in CBT. ??

Hi Seahorse Thank you for responding to my message. Yes I think I do but I want to tell him its irrational and not true and that by doing the compulsion he is going to get into trouble. But OCD is so secretive and manipulative it can be so confusing. He needs help and I need help because he lives with me. That's the other thing he won't take medication at all.

Hi My son is now 30 and living at home as he really would struggle not to. He has had OCD since he was about 14. At 16 we managed to get a referral to CAMHS but that was only available up to either 16 or 18. We jumped through hoops and he finally got a diagnosis in his early 20's. I really don't know anymore where he ends and the OCD begins. Although he is totally harmless his compulsions will lead him into serious trouble. This means neither of us talk about it to anyone and he has never really got the help he needs. He is so lonely and he struggles with the idea of suicide in fact if I'm honest I don't know how he has managed to stay alive. I see my beautiful boy as someone who, because of this dreadful, dreadful illness is desperately lonely and will never reach his potential and it is soul destroying. I am not suicidal but I do know if I wasn't here I wouldn't have to sit and watch my son being eaten away by this illness because I don't know know to help him. Thank you for reading this.