I know this sounds really stupid but I’m really scared I can predict the future. About a month and a half ago I read an article about a girl a few months ago felt like she was going to die soon and a few days later she got into a car accident and died. And straight after I started getting the same feeling that I was going to die soon, I’ve felt like it for about a month and a half now and it won’t go away. And for some reason my brain keeps telling its going to happen in October in a car accident and I’ve became scared of the number 3 and October is in 3 months, and I’ve never been scared of numbers before. I’ve also just read somewhere that some people can predict the future and see things happen before they do and now I’m really scared. I don’t know what to do because I just can’t get the feeling to go away. I’ve thought so many times that something bad was going to happen in certain situations before and nothing has ever happened so does sound like anxiety or could I possibly be able to predict the future and something bad is going to happen to me?

It's not possible. It's just your OCD telling you. Just let this belief pass.

Individuals with OCD have an inflated sense of responsibility. By this, we mean a type of thinking whereby you believe that you have an especially powerful influence that can either cause or prevent bad events which are personally important to you. For example, a person with OCD who is especially fearful of theft might believe that he has a particular influence in being able to prevent a burglary from occurring. This, in turn, leads to trying too hard to ensure that his doors and windows are locked. Another person with OCD who has a fear of contamination believes that her anxiety will go on forever and she will lose control and that she can prevent this by washing repeatedly. As you improve, you will learn that you have a limited influence over whether bad events happen. If your child is going to get leukemia, it was probably largely determined by his genetic makeup when he was born. If a burglar really wants to break into your house, then it doesn’t matter whether all the doors and windows are locked –the burglar can use a crowbar or break the window and ignore the alarm, which is all that is required if an intruder is really determined to find the valuables he wants. We know this because it has happened to one of us with the door locked and the alarm switched on. It would have made no difference how many times we had checked our locks or alarm! Many bad events occur simply because someone is in the wrong place at the wrong time; we all have very limited foreknowledge and very limited ability to prevent a bad event from occurring. OCD sufferers think they can prevent bad events that are relevant to them from occurring, and then try too hard to stop them. Another aspect of OCD closely related to the inflated sense of responsibility is ‘magical’or superstitious thinking that is taken to the extreme. Alas, many people without OCD act superstitiously (e.g. they touch wood or light a candle to prevent something bad from happening) as it makes them feel more comfortable and as if they had more influence and control over events. The cost of such behavior is usually low for most people without OCD: they treat superstitions as bit of a joke and, as bad things do not happen very often, the behavior is reinforced. Magical thinking and superstitious behavior, then, are somewhere on the same spectrum as OCD but for most people not distressing or frequent enough to be a problem. We personally go out of our way with our patients to act anti-superstitiously, for example, by using number 13 or 666, going under ladders, not touching wood, and so on. We hope to persuade you also to act rationally and anti-superstitiously to rid yourself of your OCD.

Just keep telling yourself that it’s just your OCD, your brain will catch on eventually

WAIT, I HAVE THIS TOO OMG

Ever since Cameron Boyce died ocd told me I’d die when I’m 20 or 50 so now I’m kinda scared but at this point I don’t care that much so it’s fune

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