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<blockquote data-quote="gcvmom" data-source="post: 195658" data-attributes="member: 3444"><p>I tried to post earlier today but I managed to push the wrong button on this stupid loaner laptop and deleted everything. So now that I'm over my disgust with my ineptitude...</p><p> </p><p>husband (whom I'm convinced has a mood disorder) would get obsessed to the point of it being an addiction/compulsion. This has improved since he started Paxil and even more so since Lamictal was added.</p><p> </p><p>To illustrate (and this is not his specific obsession, but the way he'd act is the same): He would worry about when he'd get to have ice cream again when he just had a giant sundae that day or the day before. He would want me to plan WHEN he'd get the ice cream, what flavor, how much, where he'd eat it, how he'd eat it, etc. ad nauseum. You get the idea. He'd get extremely irritable and angry if he thought anyone was resisting or impeding his access to ice cream. His emotional stability depending on him getting ice cream. When anxious or sad or upset about something, invariably his conversations would come back to ice cream and his next helping of it. This may not be Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in the classic sense, but to me it is definitely stuck and distorted thinking tied to some form of anxiety.</p><p> </p><p>difficult child 2 has had similar obsessional thoughts. When he was particularly manic, he would have horrible, nuclear meltdowns in public if I wouldn't buy him the thing he obsessed about (anything from a lizard, to a shirt, to a piece of dowling), acting as if his life depended on him getting whatever he happened to be fixated about. He was very desperate during these moments.</p><p> </p><p>I don't know if that helps your perspective, but I did want to share my experiences with this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gcvmom, post: 195658, member: 3444"] I tried to post earlier today but I managed to push the wrong button on this stupid loaner laptop and deleted everything. So now that I'm over my disgust with my ineptitude... husband (whom I'm convinced has a mood disorder) would get obsessed to the point of it being an addiction/compulsion. This has improved since he started Paxil and even more so since Lamictal was added. To illustrate (and this is not his specific obsession, but the way he'd act is the same): He would worry about when he'd get to have ice cream again when he just had a giant sundae that day or the day before. He would want me to plan WHEN he'd get the ice cream, what flavor, how much, where he'd eat it, how he'd eat it, etc. ad nauseum. You get the idea. He'd get extremely irritable and angry if he thought anyone was resisting or impeding his access to ice cream. His emotional stability depending on him getting ice cream. When anxious or sad or upset about something, invariably his conversations would come back to ice cream and his next helping of it. This may not be Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in the classic sense, but to me it is definitely stuck and distorted thinking tied to some form of anxiety. difficult child 2 has had similar obsessional thoughts. When he was particularly manic, he would have horrible, nuclear meltdowns in public if I wouldn't buy him the thing he obsessed about (anything from a lizard, to a shirt, to a piece of dowling), acting as if his life depended on him getting whatever he happened to be fixated about. He was very desperate during these moments. I don't know if that helps your perspective, but I did want to share my experiences with this. [/QUOTE]
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