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Or OCD for short.

A recent “Help Me Help My Child” documentary shown on Arts Central was on 2 separate cases of 2 kids from different background with this disorder.

My short review..

One was about 7 years old who kept “hearing” a voice in his head, and he thought he would kill himself and his family.

Another was a teenager, but was obsessed with tidiness or perfection. That made it hard for others to live or interact with him.

Both were brought to see a psychiatrist by their mothers, but its wasn’t that easy even though the psychiatrists were specialised in this field.

Both had to over cover come their anxiety, and it seemed it both cases, the psychiatrists gave them confront their own anxiety by place more anxiety on them, until they could accept it.

It was nice to observe that in these families, their parents were very patient to them, and tried to talk to them about their behavior or illness. This was in contrast to my thought that parents would just lash out at these children in their frustrations.