Posted By Nishi (Buena Park, Cal) on 04/03/2010

My son, who is 17, had developed OCD about 6 months ago. He had had it for about a year before, but it had gotten worse in the past 6 months.

It started off with small things like my husband spitting in his food when he talked, my daughter bringing things like nail polish remover to the kitchen, and it getting in the food, or even inhaling the nail polish remover fumes, and the gas stove leaking that he believed would lead to carbon monoxide poisining.

As time went on, it grew little by little, it got worse, and his anxiety turned into panic and anger. We bought him a electric stove since the gas leaking was one of his biggest worries, but his worry tends to move on to something else as the other worry is resolved.

In the past 2 months, his anxiety and OCD have gotten worse, to the point that he would suspect that my daughter would come home during school in his absence and do something wrong. He also began thinking that my husband would put something in his food that would harm him.

Our question is, is there any remedy for SUSPICION/ANXIETY?

Thank you.

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