greetings to all,

My son refused to go to school today, because he obsessed about his skin.  Thank God, we have an appointment at the Skin Doctor tomorrow for this.  We have tried everything at home for proper skin care, cleansing, products, etc.  He obsesses about any blemishes and can’t let it go.  I don’t know how to get him to keep his hands off his face.  I am now ready for any all-powerful drugs to make his skin smooth again.  Puberty is an added insult to the OCD teen, I gotta say.      I guess I could say the reverse of that statement… OCD is an added insult  to the adolescent teen!  LOL       It is overwhelming no matter how you mix it people.    

After he refused to go to school today, I actually threatened him with going to Therapeutic Boarding School…something I have shared with him in recent past when he has missed school  (this is day 8, I think, he has missed so far in past 3 1/2 months).     I feel like a terrible mom when I think this, or say this.  However, I can’t live with this morning stress for next 3 1/2 years high school.   Maybe someone else can help him better than me.  I love him so much, but this brain disorder is so complex and impacting to our home.  We have seen such improvement over past 6 months treatment with LENS Neurofeedback, that it scares me to think of us "going back to where we were"  summer 07 through summer 08.  I can’t homeschool again.  I can’t have him at home "uneducated" and without a plan for his day/life.  It would be a last resort to send him to a specialized boarding school to rescue him from himself.      I don’t have a lot of "fight reserves" left in me. 

I pray that this skin treatment will eliminate this mental obstacle that he doesn’t need!  Well, that’s my story today.  Tomorrow will be a better day, I hope.  Someday, this will be just a painful chapter of our life from the past. 

warriormom