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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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Does anyone have harm OCD related to recent events? Like events that just happened or happened not long ago? I feel like my OCD is trying to find something bad/immoral I could have done in nearly every situation that I am experiencing, for example “Did you just do that?”. And I constantly want to check, ask people for reassurance, try to find a logic answer by going it though in my head,… It’s many different themes but all related to doing sth bad/immoral (e.g., touching someone inappropriately, pushing someone in front of a vehicle, putting something in a drink/food). Does anyone have the same? Or the other thing that I experienced recently is that I did something (a rather unimportant action, not harming anyone) and I go over and over it and ask myself “why did you do that? What does that say about you? Are you actually a weird person?” It feels like I draw “false conclusions” from a real event… I don’t know if that’s OCD though or not. Just wondering if anyone has experienced the same. Good luck to you all! We’re not alone in this! 😊
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How do yall handle intrusive thoughts !? I never realized that was a thing I think I’ve been dealing with this sense I was in elementary school I remember getting on the bus and had the the worry my mom was gonna get in an accident and it’s just gone from there
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Has anyone had this fear that they were abused in childhood and just don’t remember? And that’s why you have harm related thoughts? Like, I kept thinking if my mom abused me in childhood even though I had not ever thought or felt that way before, it came up a few months ago when my therapist was talking about complex PTSD which then freaked me out thinking something super horrific happened in my childhood and I just don’t remember it. My mom and I are super close, always have been. My mom was protective of me, but never in an abusive sense. She would just worry whenever I went out with friends and such, and wanted me to text her every now and again to let me know what was going on. Even in adulthood she sometimes wants to check in on me if I go out somewhere (even though we live together) and she even tells me to not worry about it and she knows it’s just her anxiety that gets the best of her, thinking something bad happened or what not. Anyway, I kept thinking about this and I thought is this abusive behavior? My mom wanting to check in on me? And I think of course not, it shows she cares and loves me. It’s not like she’s a hounding my phone every second or what not, just a text or a call to see what’s up. But my mind takes it further and thinks this is controlling behavior or something. So it goes back to the was I abused in childhood and I just have repressed memories, and that’s why I get harm thoughts towards my mom. I’m always thinking there is a deeper meaning. I never even thought that before in my life, about the abuse part, but it has become stuck in my mind and I’m scared it will ruin my relationship with my mom.
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