cleanfreak
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i need to know what i can do to help my daughter not to fall into the pit.
i have ocd, and now it looks as though my daughter is showing tendencies as well (of course there's only one to blame!!!).
mostly it shows in the morning while getting ready - it's taking longer and longer. she checks her socks for even height (continously throughout the day too), it takes her forever to tie shoes, they have to be just right, if it's not she'll do it over and over, then she has to go into the bathroom for brushing her teeth etc. and that has to be done in a certain order. She has a thing with pencils and sharpening them - it can go for a half hour or longer until nothing is left of the pencil but a stub and then it's still not sharp enough!!!!!! - well, you all know what it's like... recently my mother in law took her to a fundraiser, where she helped collect babybottles in which people collected their change for donation and she sorted all the bottles according to height and color on a table. when she had a certain color she was collecting she wouldn't accept other colors etc. people thought it was "adorable" and great that she is so organized at her age (she's 8). my thoughts are a little different on this, given my struggle with ocd. i don't want her to have to deal with this or let it get worse, i can see it taking root and i cannot allow this to take over her life.
what can i do?
i have ocd, and now it looks as though my daughter is showing tendencies as well (of course there's only one to blame!!!).
mostly it shows in the morning while getting ready - it's taking longer and longer. she checks her socks for even height (continously throughout the day too), it takes her forever to tie shoes, they have to be just right, if it's not she'll do it over and over, then she has to go into the bathroom for brushing her teeth etc. and that has to be done in a certain order. She has a thing with pencils and sharpening them - it can go for a half hour or longer until nothing is left of the pencil but a stub and then it's still not sharp enough!!!!!! - well, you all know what it's like... recently my mother in law took her to a fundraiser, where she helped collect babybottles in which people collected their change for donation and she sorted all the bottles according to height and color on a table. when she had a certain color she was collecting she wouldn't accept other colors etc. people thought it was "adorable" and great that she is so organized at her age (she's 8). my thoughts are a little different on this, given my struggle with ocd. i don't want her to have to deal with this or let it get worse, i can see it taking root and i cannot allow this to take over her life.
what can i do?