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I don’t drive because I’m so terrified to, even though I know I need to because I’ve stopped living in the city and Lyft is a lot. Buuuut here we are... ?
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Checking related to harming others. Because people with OCD tend to feel overly responsible for causing harm, it is not uncommon for them to repeatedly check to ensure that they have not accidentally caused harm to others. One common example of this type of checking involves fear of running another person over while driving. The person with OCD may hit a bump in the road and then worry about whether or not the bump was the sound of the car running over another person or a small child. Even though logically, the person with OCD knows that if a person had been hit, there would be the sound of screaming and sight of blood, the OCD torments the sufferer of thought of "what if..." So the person with OCD will then stop the car and look under the wheels or turn around to inspect the road to reassure him or herself that no one was harmed.
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Is your fear to drive related to ocd?
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Yeah, I have this as well. This is actually a normal form of OCD, you can find some resources online about it. It's difficult because you always think that you somehow did it and don't remember. Everything that I've read has said that basically the only way to stop it is to keep driving, but don't check and then to just stay with the bad thoughts until they eventually go away on their own. It's difficult, because sometimes I think about a specific drive for multiple days. Just stick with it
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My dear is from GAD and getting into a lot of accidents as a passenger when I was a child.
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Fear*
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Thank you, I’m glad to know I’m not alone. Although I hate to know others suffer as well.
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Yes! I get this so bad. I’m always checking my mirrors.
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I am too!
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Hello, I was driving last night and i hit a bump in the road like felt like a massive pothole but the road i was driving on (i drive on it almost everyday) and i’ve convinced myself that I hit someone or something. I had my mom drive by there again about 20-30 mins later and there was nothing but she said it looked like a hole was filled by rain water. I drove by later that night and didn’t see it so I’ve convinced myself that if something happened, it was cleared out in that time. Is there anything I can do to help myself feel better.
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Does anyone have hit and run ocd ? Or possibly causing an accident by crossing the middle line and a vechile going into a ditch ?
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