He's 21. He is a professional athlete who lived independently out of state for the past two years. He has had OCD for the past 7 years, and has resisted treatment and medication for the majority of those years. A few months ago, he developed paranoia because his intrusive thoughts started racing so badly he thought he was losing his mind and doesn't trust his mind anymore.

He hit his OCD rock bottom on a Friday night, came to me for help, I called our MD after hours, and he called in medication to the pharmacy just minutes before it closed. So he's on klonopin, Zoloft (which helped tremendously), and most recently started an antipsychotic.

I'm working hard at trying to find him the right treatment program. Then the biggest obstacle will be convincing him that he should do it. His very life depends on this because paranoia is no joke and could disable him forever.

I feel so badly for him. It's genetic. He inherited this from my sister. Exact same symptoms, each starting at the exact same periods in their lives (adjusting for gender). She was much more functional though.

Thanks for asking. I recommended a social anxiety support group back when social anxiety was his biggest symptom, and he of course was too uncomfortable to go to a support group because of his social anxiety. He has also said he doesn't want to go to the Head Trauma Center (he had a severe concussion in December) because he doesn't want to see people who are more severely injured than him. He also is afraid of OCD support groups because he's afraid he'll hear other people sharing the specifics of their intrusive thoughts and he doesn't want to get any ideas for more things to worry about.

It's a quandary, as you can imagine.