Having a job would be a huge step forward, a real confidence, self-esteem builder. We've been working on this one step for at least a year. You know how you can push a person just so far and then they push back? So you stop for a while and then push again and the next time you get a little further? So I think it's progress, just very slow progress. Talk about learning to drop one's own timeline, this has been a master class.
He's on meds and has been, his -iatrist tried to wean him down last year but that was a near disaster. S and I were supportive of trying and there were good reasons to do so but it threw S off track for a while.
Diagnosis-OCD, GAD, depression.
We went to the IOCDF conference in Chicago last year and I learned a lot. I went to a talk on ACT-acceptance and commitment therapy that was interesting. It is sometimes used in conjunction with ERP. the problem is getting hi to a T who does that when S is fearful of changing. It's a dog chasing its tail.
Yes, I know about the program UCLA. In fact I was looking at the website just a couple of weeks ago and wondering if that might not be something that needs to happen. But he's 20 so would have to agree to it...We don't have anything like that in our state.
This will work out. Just getting it out more here has been a help in working through it in my mind. Thank you so much for your suggestions and ideas.
Me 57/H 58 M36 S 2.5yrs R 12/13
Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering. Caroline Myss
