Hi everyone. Any advice on how to help a teen with severe OCD, a teen that absolutely does NOT want to participate in therapy and continues to say “I like my life the way it is.” “You are just trying to change me.” Keep in mind, she does not eat anything at our home, does not touch anything certain people have touched, has special clothes for riding in the car, sitting in bed, and being out in the house, will not ride in the family car, will not touch people-any people, will not touch school books so she is falling behind in school. She more or less spends her entire day in her room. She used to be so social and fun and adventurous. During therapy she is sassy and defiant, completely different than her normal self. I have tried everything and can use all the help I can get. Thank you in advance!

I’m new to this community. My daughter is 14 and is suffering from what I believe is contamination ocd. She was just fine this evening and out of no where was crying uncontrollably. I’m so lost as a parent because I don’t know how to help her. I can’t even give a hug. I feel so bad just letting her cry.

My ten year old daughter is struggling with really bad OCD mental urges. It’s taking over her every day to day being. She’s unable to walk, or get an object without having to stop and touch things, tap things, open and close. It takes forever to get out of the house and bedtime is a complete nightmare. I try talking to her to help her ignore the urges but nothing is helping. She’s in tears daily saying how she wants it to stop, how she doesn’t want to live this way and wants to just be normal like everyone else. Nothing I try and do to help is working. She fights me saying she can’t stop, the urges are just too strong. I’m trying to be calm and sensitive but I’m losing my mind. I have two other children who it’s effecting too and I’m a single mom trying to navigate this on my own. PLEASE I need help.

I don’t have OCD but I think my son has it. Yesterday he totally snapped because I assumed a bag of chocolates could be shared by the entire family. This triggered so many reactions on him that evolved into him throwing the bag of candy to me….. I got upset and told him that his OCD didn’t give him the right to be disrespectful specially to a caring and understanding parent. Now he says he hates the whole family and that he won’t talk to us in 2 years. I don’t pressure him. He finished a GED but he hasn’t done anything in about a year and a half. I understand life is difficult for him and I give him time. It’s so difficult for me to understand why such small issues take priority over other life changing issues such as being productive, finding a job, friends, etc. He told me so many bad things yesterday . He also changed his name and has had different obsessions throughout the years like spitting, calories intake obsessions, exercise obsessions. Etc. Can somebody help me as to what to do? Should I ignore and wait for this to pass or try to communicate and possibly make it worse ? This situations also affect his brother and the entire family, I have tried everything but nothing seems to work. If I recommend this website to him I’m afraid it will unlock more obsessions that he currently doesn’t have…… I’m lost and my hope is almost gone Not even sure if his condition is OCD or something else ….. he won’t go to a doctor face to face (just via video call) nor take therapy and during the calls he completely disengages with the doctor…… I need yo do the talking.