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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thank you.  
Can anyone share their experience with a kid who modified their perfectionist tendencies and what seemed to help the most, other than meds?  If therapy, what helped exactly? [/quote]

I can’t. Meds were an essential part of his treatment. CBT helped, but it’s only a tool. He has GAD with OCD tendencies. Perfectionism plays into that. His therapist works on exercises with him to help him be able to turn in a complete and accurate math assignment that got a bent corner, but the meds provide the stability to let him be calm and open to hearing what his therapist says and follow through with her advice. We tried meds without therapy and therapy without meds, and we tried meds with a therapist I thought was amazing but he didn’t connect with. None of those worked. His needs were specific, different from mine, and unrelatable to me. I think a lot of parents look at the problem and solution through their own perspective when they need to use the same lens their kids look through. [/quote]

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