{"id":47921,"date":"2026-04-05T07:41:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=47921"},"modified":"2026-04-05T07:41:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:41:22","slug":"my-teenage-daughters-ocd-keeps-getting-worse-what-can-i-do-ask-annalisa-barbieri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=47921","title":{"rendered":"My teenage daughter\u2019s OCD keeps getting worse. What can I do? | Ask Annalisa Barbieri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Exposure response prevention may help her to cope with her anxiety and learn that she doesn\u2019t need to respond to intrusive thoughts<\/p>\n<p><strong>My daughter is 15 and has <\/strong><strong>lived with obsessive <\/strong><strong>compulsive <\/strong><strong>disorder (OCD) for some time. Her compulsions<\/strong><strong> change \u2013 counting, repetitive actions such as flicking light switches a certain number of times, showering\/brushing her teeth in a particular order<\/strong><strong>, placing things in her bedroom in a certain way<\/strong><strong> \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>She<\/strong><strong> has had two courses of private therapy, but neither seemed to help. Both focused on the compulsions <\/strong><strong>\u2013 for&nbsp;example, they\u2019d encourage her to tackle one <\/strong><strong>ritual<\/strong><strong> at a time and try to eliminate <\/strong><strong>it. It felt as though they were addressing the symptoms rather than the cause \u2013 <\/strong><strong>ne<\/strong><strong>w rituals can come to her in the moment and <\/strong><strong>if one ritual is eliminated, it will quickly be replaced.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exposure response prevention may help her to cope with her anxiety and learn that she doesn\u2019t need to respond to intrusive thoughts My daughter is 15 and has lived with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) for some time. Her compulsions change \u2013 counting, repetitive actions such as flicking light switches a certain number of times, showering\/brushing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[24110,24111,332,20638,5228,6930],"class_list":{"0":"post-47921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-annalisa","9":"tag-barbieri","10":"tag-daughters","11":"tag-ocd","12":"tag-teenage","13":"tag-worse"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}