By: Dawn

Dawn — Tue, 26 May 2015 22:31:47 +0000

My husband and I can relate to all the article above about anxiety. Our 15 year son has a diagnosis of PDD-NOS but he suffers with extreme anxiety in day to day life despite our best efforts to minimise change and disruption to his life. He has very severe compulsive behaviour such as collecting anything he touches so going out is difficult as he tries to deal with this by avoiding touching things such as menu’s or objects but at his college he attends with his school he has to have any work photo copied so he can keep the original paper his work is on or if he goes to the doctor he asks for his personal notes and will melt down if refused. He is very controlling of how his Dad parks his car and where to a point my husband is now getting a new car which he is parking two streets away so our son cannot be fixated on it! We have a great doctor but the mental health support is not great and the advice is we as parents need to take more control of his behaviour rather than he is controlled by anxiety. If you have any advice we would appreciate it. thank you Dawn

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By: Dawn