Category: OCD
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Exposures
So, we’ve met w/ a new OCD team twice 4 times now. Last time we started thinking of exposures we could work on. This week I sat in on the call. Let me tell you. It’s a lot. It’s depressing. And overwhelming. And I have no idea how we are ever going to get to…
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Stubborn
Stubborn is an understatement. She went to the hospital this last time. Well back up. She was on a feeding tube, continuous pump getting 3500 calories of ensure. Allegedly. At her doctor apt on Monday her heart rate was up, her blood pressure was low, and she had lost 3 pounds. She had been having…
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What Do You Do?
What do you do when nothing works. When she’s trying harder than she’s ever tried but it’s just not enough. When you can’t stay out of the hospital. When the OCD is so bad. When you don’t see how a different residential would help as you’ve done it 4 times. Honestly just keeping her alive…
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5th Hospital Stay
We’re on our fifth stay since the middle of May. It’s literally been a week in, a week out, a week in, a week out, 2 weeks in, a week out, a week in, less than a week out, and now we’ve been in for 3 days. We’ve gone from food to a feeding tube…
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Food That Hasn’t Been Eaten
We got home from the hospital Tuesday. Wednesday, she threw away all the food she had at home, and we went grocery shopping for the food she eats, shrimp, crackers, spreadable cheese and eggs. She told me Wednesday that since she didn’t eat any shrimp for lunch, she had 3 eggs for dinner and 10…
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OCD and CDiff
They’ve labeled her as OCD before. I’ve disagreed. We had a psych assessment done in November of 2022 and he did not find any OCD. When she was most recently in ERC Denver they tested “extensively” two separate times and did not find any evidence of OCD, only anorexia. This has always been my opinion,…
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