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<blockquote data-quote="Josie" data-source="post: 391943" data-attributes="member: 1792"><p>The therapist that worked with my daughter took the approach that her fear was keeping her from it and she could talk back to that fear. She would feel scared but she would see that the fear would go away. She started with small exposures that did make her afraid but were not overwhelming.</p><p></p><p>The trouble with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is that if the therapist says something won't happen, the fear part says "but what if it does?" and they can't get past that. That is where the "can't" comes in, in my opinion.</p><p></p><p>It isn't rational and doesn't go away with reasoning, if it is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).</p><p></p><p>If you had an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) therapist, you could meet with them twice a week and they would give you specific things to work on with difficult child that you would do in between. They would help you and difficult child set reasonable goals for difficult child that would not be overwhelming to her, but would cause her to face her fear. difficult child and the therapist would decide what the goals were so your role would be support, not the enforcer. I could never get my daughter to do the exercises in between, so we had to get the therapist to come 3x a week and work with her for longer. We did have to pay out of pocket for that, but insurance did reimburse some of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Josie, post: 391943, member: 1792"] The therapist that worked with my daughter took the approach that her fear was keeping her from it and she could talk back to that fear. She would feel scared but she would see that the fear would go away. She started with small exposures that did make her afraid but were not overwhelming. The trouble with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is that if the therapist says something won't happen, the fear part says "but what if it does?" and they can't get past that. That is where the "can't" comes in, in my opinion. It isn't rational and doesn't go away with reasoning, if it is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). If you had an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) therapist, you could meet with them twice a week and they would give you specific things to work on with difficult child that you would do in between. They would help you and difficult child set reasonable goals for difficult child that would not be overwhelming to her, but would cause her to face her fear. difficult child and the therapist would decide what the goals were so your role would be support, not the enforcer. I could never get my daughter to do the exercises in between, so we had to get the therapist to come 3x a week and work with her for longer. We did have to pay out of pocket for that, but insurance did reimburse some of it. [/QUOTE]
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