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Category Archives: ocd obsessive compulsive

a new therapist

David has a new therapist.  We met her yesterday.  Very abrupt lady.  Just what David needs, as he hasn’t been wanting to listen and stop having negative behaviors. David has OCD.  So we talked about his stealing electronic gadgets.  After she got done with his session we talked about it.  According to her, he knows right from wrong.  She doesn’t think the OCD has anything to do with his stealing.  Why?  When he stole a watch last week from Kmar sh asked him which pocket he put it in. His response was “I put it in my back pocket.” She asked him why. “Because they never search my back pockets.” was his reply. Which according to her means he is thinking about what he is doing before he is doing it.  Where as if it was a compulsive behavior, he would just do it without thinking it through first. So

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Tags: behavior modification, OCD, therapist ·

again with the electronic gadgets…

David got caught with one of his brother’s DSi’s again.  You would think that he would learn.  But there is a hidden compulsion that drives him to take these things. It is most frustrating that over and over again we tell him he can’t do that, and he does it anyway. “I don’t know how it got in my bed…” he says.   We have tried to reward him on days when he doesn’t take anything, and we have tried to take things away when he gets caught, but nothing works. Now some people are of a mind to say: spank him…Well, I don’t know you, but I think we could spank him until your hand hurt, and it wouldn’t make a bit of difference to him. No, we don’t beat him or anything like that.  That would make no sense.  So he gets what ever taken away, and he

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Tags: cheat, DSi, electronic gadgets, hoarde, lie, OCD, steal, theft ·

hoarding of electronic gadgets

David has compulsion with electronic items.  No small electronic gadgets are safe.  Remote controls, cell phones, DSi’s, if he can carry it, he will take it.  Very frustrating for the rest of the family. So now, when something goes missing, guess who is the first one blamed? How do you deal with hoarding?     Tweet #fighting4answrs

Tags: ADHD, hoarding, obsessive compulsive disorder, OCD ·

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