1. THE FAMILY & OCD THE INFLUENCE OF FAMILY FACTORS ON THE DEVELOPMENT, MAINTENANCE, AND TREATMENT OF PEDITRAIC OCD

4. “ Counting really bogged me down. I would wash my hair three times as opposed to once because three was a good luck number and one wasn’t. When I set my alarm at night, I had to set it to a number that wouldn’t add up to a ’bad’ number. ” “ Getting dressed in the morning was tough, because if I didn’t follow my routine, I’d get anxious and would have to get dressed again. I always worried that if I didn’t do something, my parents were going to die. I’d have these terrible thoughts of harming them. It was completely irrational, but the thoughts triggered more anxiety and more senseless behavior. B/c of the time I spent on rituals, I was unable to do a lot of things.”

8. Family Distress, Accommodation, & Participation Renshaw et al., 2005

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