My daughter (8 years old), stated exhibiting OCD symptoms about almost 3 months. We both knew that she was a little OCD since she was about 3 because of some very minor symptoms we saw then. However, recently her hording got worse. She would plead and beg us to please allow her to rummage thru the garbage bags to look at item that had being thrown out. She wanted to keep everything from pieces of scrap papers, straws rappers, even tissue paper that she used to blow her noise. She walked around with her hands closed because she did not want the air/dust to escape from her hands (yes, it is that bad). She was also depressed, constantly crying and was refusing to eat (she lost 6 lbs in less than 2 weeks).

Once we realize that we needed help my husband started searching for it and we came across several forums that talked about OCD being linked to Inocitol (part of Vitamin B Complex) deficiency. Once we started discussing the forums, we realized that we had not being given her a kids vitamin (since the bottle ran out) and it coincided around the same time her first symptom started, not to mention that she had also had Strep ( Strep has also being linked to OCD). I rushed to GNC and bought it in powder form and started given her ½ a teaspoon, twice a day for 2 days and then dropped to ¼ teaspoon for 3 days (she got a little hyper). Because her levels were low we had to bring them up to gradually to her bodies normal. The only thing you must know is that Inocitol is very expensive ($49 for a 2 oz bottle - $129 for 1 lb bottle) and it works better in powder form and with fewer additives, which is why I when to GNC, but it can also be purchase on line or in other stores.

Since the 6th day we have only being giving her ¼ teaspoon once a day in the am with her juice and in addition we are giving her a kid’s vitamin. There are some days were we have had to give her an additional dose in the afternoon/pm based on how she was doing, but that has only happened twice in the past month since we started this treatment. Our daughter started showing sign that the treatment was working on the 2nd day in the evening, she was already about 30% better. She was happy and talking and she threw a cup in the trash with us just asking her to do so. Even thou every day is a battle she is doing so much better. We have our happy-go-lucky daughter back and best of all she knows that she is getting better.
Although we have made an appointment with a therapist to start Cognitive-behavioral therapy involving exposure and response prevention (ERP) to our current treatment; I have to say that the Inocitol treatment has worked for us and I would strongly recommend it to anyone. Research it and see if it may work for your nephew.

Best wishes,
Jenny

Hi Jenny
my son uses high dose inositol powder for OCD and we get ours at iherb.com which is *much* cheaper than the prices you mention

we use either the Jarrow or NOW brand

my son likes the Jarrow best

Inositol does not have to be expensive.

We buy ours online for 11.98 for 8 oz of Jarrow pharmaceutical grade. My husband and son have been using it for over 2 yrs.
mixes into juice with no taste.

We also get ours at www.iherb.com

(locally the same bottle is over $67.00 !!)

Vitacost online also has it for a bit more $14.72 / 8oz.

I just did a search for it, and there are other places in the same price range. You don't have to pay GNC prices...they are always sky high IMO.

WOW

The 2nd day?

I know it can be helpful for some, but that really is miraculous.

Edited later to add the url for the Tourette's Syndrome Forum here at NeuroTalk.
Tourette Syndrome Forum

I read that OCD is no longer considered to be a mental illness, but rather, a neurological disorder. Is this because Inositol (a non-psychiatric medication) was found to be so helpful? Or were there other reasons?

There is a link between inositol and lithium.

If you put those keywords into Google search you will see alot of pages on it.

Inositol is a metabolic enhancer...it helps cells produce energy.
It helps insulin get glucose into cells somehow.

A form of inositol called d-chiro inositol can help reverse insulin resistance, help diabetes and it somehow lowers androgens and enables fertility to resume in women with PCOS.

In the brain it helps glucose work as well.

This is what one researcher has to say:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...y/ai_87720062/

So yes, I expect it to work quickly. (perhaps not fully, but some effects early on).

I will add that I found high dose inositol upsetting after a couple of months. I tried it for insulin resistance and became very emotional --weepy and reactive-- on it. But my husband and son use it without that effect. (2 grams daily)

I am now using the d-chiro inositol. I don't get those effects at all.
It is lowering my androgens nicely... no more postmenopausal facial hair for me! LOL