How Child Mobile Monitoring helps in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

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Welcome to the world of a child suffering from OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Here you’ll find more than regular ritual of hand-washing, meticulous arranging of things, never ending counting & hording of useless stuffs, and then comes repeated checking of car locked, door closed and so on. And say thanks to technology, you’ll now find another type of delirious ritual that involve excessive checking of cell phone inbox for new texts, the push notification for new mails; a new like or comment on Facebook; or a tweet from a friend.

What if your child’s OCD is only getting worse especially with this new cell phone and Internet obsession? OCD involves obsession as well as compulsion. And that iPhone in your child’s hand can take really obsessive dimensions making her compulsively obsessed to check what’s happening in her network of friends, who has sent a new email, whose text message is awaiting her in the inbox, what’s the latest news on the various social sites that your child uses, and so on.

How will Monitoring your Child’s Cell Phone/ Smart Phone Activities prove helpful?

Monitoring your child’s cell phone activities makes several things clearer, opens doors to your child’s private life and gets you better ways to help your child. However, it won’t be possible to personally monitor your child’s activities on the cell phone or Internet. Using a dedicated app for the purpose will work more practically.

Know what things your child is doing as a result of overwrought obsession caused by OCD.

Your application will keep you aware of all that your child is busy doing with his phone. You’ll know about all the things that keep your child obsessively involved like texting all the time, frequenting to the social sites more than usual, etc. Your child may get anxiety pangs that make her stay tuned to her phone all the time. You may simply ask your child but you may not be sure about a proper explanation from her side.

However, your monitoring app will let you know all her cell phone activities which include call & text details, social networking activities, chat-messenger conversations and more importantly the browser history. You’ll get to know the frequency of the Internet searches made by your child even if she deletes the history from her cell phone.

Your child may even be a gaming addict and feel a kind of compulsion to play well, score high, be the best and be ready to play the game all the time as most people suffering from OCD have an almost psychotic notion to do the thing the best way or set the things just right. Their idea of being a perfectionist has a superstition that if they’ll not do things the perfect way, they’ll be harmed or punished. Your app will let you know if your child is visiting the gaming site all the time or is she playing online games addictively.

The places your child frequents because of her frequenting habit as a result of OCD.

The latest parental control apps for cell phone have advanced GPS tracking feature which keeps you aware of the places where your child goes to. You may know about your child’s everyday errands but not about some of the particular places where your child frequents the most and that too without any sensible reason. Suppose your child goes to a factory away from the town just to check if there is a gas or chemical leak out there as a result of the fear of harm induced in her because of OCD, you’ll never get to know about it otherwise but GPS tracking will surely let you know and keep your child safe from any possible harm.

Get Cognitive Behavioral Therapy through Cell Phone Monitoring.

Monitoring your child through a special parental monitoring app will work no less than a cognitive behavioral therapy that involves exposure and response prevention. Your app will let you know what things your child is over doing or getting maniacally involved in. It can be anything like checking the social networking sites time and again believing that her missing of any of the activities in which her friends are involved can have catastrophic consequences. It can also be that your child is texting all the time just out of an invisible compulsion making it important for her to reply each and every message from her friend. Or perhaps your child has become a gaming freak and her idea of being the best gamer, the highest scorer among the other gamers is making her play online games all the time thus leaving out all the other important things that she should be doing and so on.

The advanced parental monitoring apps are not limited to telling you about what your child does on the phone or Internet (if the phone has access to the Internet).  The apps of the day also help you restrict unwanted activities. Some of them are smart enough to time-bound your child’s Internet and cell phone activities.

Block Games & Apps Download

Your child can be obsessed both with downloading things all the time and using each of the things that she has downloaded. By downloading things all the time, she’ll surely over expend the Internet bandwidth available to her and of course her precious time that she should be spending in more important things. And her jitter for playing games or using apps or simply downloading them will make her OCD worse. But by blocking the entire activity, you’ll be able to help her recover from her ailment better.

Block Sites

Your child might be frequenting to certain sites to an addictive level, blocking these sites will work like exposure and response prevention therapy as you’ll be preventing your child from doing it addictively and this way the obsession for the thing will come to an end. This will also prove helpful in keeping your child safe from various online perils. There are online predators just in search of kids going through emotional wreck and a kid suffering from OCD is no less vulnerable than any other emotionally broken kid.

Blocking &Blacklisting Contacts

If there are certain people your child is communicating more than usual, you can choose to blacklist the contact of these people for certain hours of the day. If you find your child communicating with strangers or potentially harmful people, you can choose to block such contacts forever, this way you can stop your child from communicating with people at an obsessive level and help her stay safe as well as take an important little step toward the cure of your child’s OCD.