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5.0
Very very good book. An excellent, gentle explanation of what OCD can feel like from the inside, and what treatment can look like and what it aims you towards.
And I REALLY appreciated the note to parents at the front, making it clear that OCD is genetic, it's caused by a chemical imbalance, and saying "don't worry about it" is NOT going to help, and that your kid is not trying to be annoying by constantly asking you about obsessions, it is just about out of their control. And treatment helps to get it back in their control. Even for me that helped to bring things into tighter focus. Cause a lot of OCD behaviours can on the surface look like "annoying kid behaviour", or "person is just tired", or "person just needs to breathe more" or other stuff that you would— I think legitimately— treat very differently than you would OCD compulsions or obsessions.
So excellent, informative, hopeful little book.
And I REALLY appreciated the note to parents at the front, making it clear that OCD is genetic, it's caused by a chemical imbalance, and saying "don't worry about it" is NOT going to help, and that your kid is not trying to be annoying by constantly asking you about obsessions, it is just about out of their control. And treatment helps to get it back in their control. Even for me that helped to bring things into tighter focus. Cause a lot of OCD behaviours can on the surface look like "annoying kid behaviour", or "person is just tired", or "person just needs to breathe more" or other stuff that you would— I think legitimately— treat very differently than you would OCD compulsions or obsessions.
So excellent, informative, hopeful little book.
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