AshleyOwens825

When do you know its time to pull the 16 year old out of high school for homeschooling? Do you recommend home schooling for OCD teenagers?

I have a 16 year old who was in hospital outpatient treatment program (he suffered treatment fatigue at week 10 and came home) in Tampa this summer. He is sliding back towards compulsions and anxiety keeps him from attending school. How do I know encouraging him to return to the same place (of course he knows how difficult ERP is) and if it will work? He is currently on medication and doing CBT weekly but no exposures? This mom needs help!

I was 100% involved in his daily treatment in HOP and the parent who makes sure his meds are taken daily and he goes to therapy weekly. We live right outside of Charlotte. Even with the help of Rogers clinical staff looking and searching before we came home ERP therapy is almost non existent here, there are a few therapists who were recommended (private pay only) and only one support group on the other side of town. We had planned on making the SFO conference but we were in the middle of HOP treatment :) One of the biggest challenges I face is the other parent that suffers from bi -polar who won't set boundaries or rules around treatment. When my son goes to his house its like an all weekend vacation with no rules, no exposure work, no medication adherence rules - sounds crazy but this parent is so afraid to say no and be a parent!!! This makes it very hard to set healthy boundaries and expect a 16 year old to adhere when he could just ignore the hard stuff.

One more thing - the one ERP Dr I found in Charlotte who will remain name less who knew about HOP at Rogers, knew about ERP and knew that this need to be in the treatment plan only did talk therapy with my son for 3 visits. We found another therapists but desperately trying to find ERP therapists doesn't exist here so send us some good therapists!!!!! So excited that https://hopewayfoundation.org/ has opened but once again no adolescent care.

OCD and video gaming / technology. It seems to fall right in line with the biggest obsession for my 16 year old. With technology being such a huge piece in our current world and so many of our schools and jobs how do we treat this? If you take it away completely the obsession is still there when you give technology back. What have you seen to help in this area of treatment?