Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Support

This is a poem written by me that expresses the pain of watching your child grow up with OCD and how it consumes and has taken him away. As a parent of an adult child who has suffered with this illness all his life, the pain in my heart is so immense words cant express.

This is an article i found on http://www.wsps.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=77%3Aobsessive-love-when-people-become-qobsessedq-with-other-people-&catid=0%3A&Itemid=64

 OCD

I cook, clean, count, get the angles right

By Paul Greene, Ph.D., clinical psychologist in New York, specializing in treatment of OCD.  This article adapted from http://www.anxiety-ocd.info/2008/11/how-to-pick-therapist.html

It can be difficult to decide if and when psychotherapy would be helpful. There are many different ways people make this decision. A general guideline that I offer is called the “interference rule.” That is, if a problem is significantly interfering in your ability to live your life the way you’d like, then psychotherapy may be helpful.