A helpline worker explains how, by listening and working with themother, she found practical solutions and helped the mother accesssupport in her local community.
- This is a common scenario of a parent feeling very isolated becauseher child is different. She's a single parent and her family liveelsewhere.
Her daughter has obsessive compulsive disorder, which became much moreapparent when she went to secondary school. It included not touchingfood, compulsive hand-washing, and not wanting to do PE or anything thatinvolved touching things.
The mother did not feel she could talk to the teachers since theymaintained her daughter was well-behaved and she didn't have access to afriendly group of parents since her daughter did not make friendseasily.
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