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Otherwise OCD/Aspergers, places for info

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  Posted by evensmallergod its the cutbacks (U5043365) on Monday, 15th June 2009

  I realise it would be silly to ask for answers but I would be grateful if someone could direct me to places where I could get some information.
  
  I have one person who reports to me in work. He has been diagnosed with Obsessive compulsive disorder and potentially has aspergers.
  His work is good, attention to detail is excellent as would be expected. He is also in the right job, performing inspectons which encourage routine and attention to detail.
  I am looking for information on how to help with his condition as his supervisor without making too much of a mess of it. He can get into loops of checking which which can be almost self -destructive for him and stop him completing his normal tasks in work.
  
  I have asked our HR dept to try and find me some information but they are almost visibly ducking the issue as it might be difficult.
  
  Almost everything I can find is based around education and children or home life with next to nothing on work without it being on the disability discrimination act. Nothing on dealing with a 40 odd year old man who only occasionally needs help.

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  Posted by strawberrysunrise (U10452397) on Monday, 15th June 2009

  I'm booking marking with interest,
  
  if you manage this carefully you will have a brilliant worker, we find in our line it's an important part some job descriptions.
  
  aspergers, is always a very individual thing, each person will have their own idiosyncrasies, it's how to channel them into positivies,
  
  logic is a key word.

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  Posted by La Min gibbon swinging strumpet draped in black (U12534030) on Monday, 15th June 2009

  First question, how much self awareness does he have? Insight into his own behaviour, things that set him off into loops etc.
  
  Google Wendy Lawson, she has written about life as an Aspergers adult, she has Aspergers herself. I haven't read any of her adult stuff, ( haven't got there yet!), but just had a quick look and there is at least one book about coping/living as an independant Aspergers adult.
  
  I would take a guess that there needs to be a strategy to cope with/divert/alter the obssesive loop like behaviour. First it needs to be recognised, hence my question about self-awareness. The level of insight your Aspergers person has into his own way of thinking/functioning may well be part of what determines whether he comes up with his own strategy, needs help to find one or needs someone to give him one. Or even several until you find one that works.
  
  Whatever it might be will be as individual as the person himself is. If you think about it it isn't too far removed from anyone coming up with a coping strategy but may require some more creative, sideways or upside-down thinking. Which is where reading Wendy Lawsons work might come in handy for insight into what the world may look like through Aspergers eyes.
  
  Good luck!

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  Posted by Michael Alexander Kearsley (U1675895) on Monday, 15th June 2009

  There is a variety of types of informations on various conditions, easy not to see the wood for the trees (or the trees for the wood for that matter) and forget that people with such diagnoses are not all the same, vary a lot and that people don't neccessarily correspond with medical definitions of conditions, that they have usually a lot of the same problems as lots of other people.
  
  The following document includes the WHO ICD-10 classification (see F84.5 for asperger's Syndrome, F42 for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder):
  
  
  US Psychiatrists tend to use DSM-IV classification:
  
  
  In Continental Europe the ICD classification is favoured, so far as I know there isn't a formal position on what is used in the UK:
  
  
  More general info:
  
  

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  Posted by posh_scouse_pinnedwithpride (U2514024) on Tuesday, 16th June 2009

  ooo, I had a case similar to this,
  
  Ask HR as they should have put summat in place and say that you are all keen to learn, know and help.
  
  
  He is just him but you all could benefit from a wee bit of an update.

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  Posted by evensmallergod its the cutbacks (U5043365) on Tuesday, 16th June 2009

  Thanks for your help.
  I have found this from some of the links above which appears to be a start.
  
  
  
  In terms of being aware of his actions all I can say is sometimes. All I have done to try and break the loops is to wait until it is just the 2 of us away from any prying eyes and be fairly straightforward and ask how he is feeling and go through the individual situations. A lot of his issues manifest as anxieties and checking routines.
  What we have done is to have me almost as a buffer to the rest of the factory. He gets more problems when there are more people to deal with. for that reason we try and keep him dealing with only a few.
  One of the things taht has made me try and look a bit deeper is a lot of the other people we work with notice and ask what they should do and I just have no answers for them.
  
  I would love to ask our HR but they are less than I would deem adequate. They tend to duck the issue by saying that you know him best and then hand me leaflets on disbility discrimination.

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