Anyone else feel like they hit someone with their car this morning on their way to work and have to go back and check 8 times before they made it to work? Or is it just me? Asking for a friend 😐
You’re not alone! I have struggled with this for a long time. It’s called “Hit and Run OCD”, and it’s very common. I spent so much time and gas driving back and forth on routes to check for any injured people or animals. Every pothole triggered the intrusive thought: “what if that was a person?” It got so bad that I bought a dash camera, so that every time I got the urge to do a compulsion, I would check the dash camera footage instead of driving back. OCD is a pain, but you’re not the only one here. OCD will latch onto anything and anyone!
@ocd_italiana I have the exact same ocd. I spend countless hours driving back and forth checking for bodies and checking under the car. For reassurance I video with my phone when driving so I can view the video to see if I hit someone. Even with using the video I still end up going back to check the roads. Have had this for about 18 years. It’s so exhausting.
I haven't done that but I used to have to check and recheck various appliances for fear that I left them on and would burn up the house. It even got so bad that I'd call someone and ask her to check my coffeemaker, even though the thing had an automatic timer. Only way I got through it is to stop myself, caution myself that I'm about to perform a compulsion, and to sit in discomfort until it passed.
I’ve struggled with ocd since I was 12 . I haven’t had that exact fear but it’s a classic ocd symptom. I’ve read some self help books on ocd and that particular fear was in a book I read 20 years ago. You’re not alone ❤️ hang in there!
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! 😊
I have constantly been feeling like if I hit one arm, I have to hit the other and if I set something down and it just didn’t look right or feel right I had to do it again or I had to move it to a different spot in my room I’ve had never been a clean freak, which is mainly what I get told is OCD And I don’t know if I should even have this app. I don’t know if I actually have it. I’m constantly worried that I did something in my past that harmed others and that’s why people don’t like me or I’m constantly worried People are constantly watching me and I don’t know if that’s OCD or if I have it so please tell me I will delete this app and never think of it again if I don’t I just really wanna know
Does anyone else experience this lingering fear and anxiety because they think they’re capable of hurting someone? It’s killing me. I feel like I’m such a danger. I feel like I’m a predator. I feel like this awful person and I can’t shake it. I want to carry on with my day but I can’t. I don’t feel like I deserve it. I feel like I’ve done awful things. I can’t stop crying.
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