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My username comes from my experience with Hit and Run OCD. This is actually a very common Harm OCD thought. The sensation to hit pedestrians is actually an intrusive mental urge. Urges can feel real but is is the combination of feeling out of control and horror associated that lets you know it is OCD talking. I have done extensive ERP on this and the best things I did was watching YouTube videos where there is a person vs auto accident. Remember this urge is just another intrusive experience and is just like a mental fart ?; let it pass and do not analyze.
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Driving OCD falls under "false memory OCD". Most people with OCD have had false memory OCD at one point, and the only way to overcome it is to do ERP. You can't avoid driving so you have to confront the OCD thoughts. You have to just let the thoughts sit in your mind when they come to you but just don't consciously react to them or analyse them. No analysing the car journey either.
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But do I accept the OCD thoughts as true and convince myself I hit someone or do I label them as OCD and just feel anxious
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I totally get this!!! This happens to me ALL the time. You’re not alone.
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You don't accept the OCD thoughts as true, you don't accept them at all. You just allow them to sit in your mind without acknowledging them. Don't consciously respond to the thoughts with fear and don't analyse them or the car journey to try figure out if the thoughts are true. You have to rewire your brains response to these thoughts, and the best way to teach your brain is to show it that nothing is wrong by behaving as if there is nothing wrong. Having anxiety is fine as that comes on autopilot, but analysing and powering the thoughts up with conscious fear is a choice and you have to choose not to.
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- 24w
I can't stop thinking about ending my life. I feel like I'm not even living, I'm just surviving. Everyone is capable of being a person and functioning and I'm just stuck here avoiding everything. My psychiatrist said my ocd is severe and it will all take time and I'll start erp and I'm already on medication but I just feel so depressed and like I won't be able to handle erp and it's already too late for me. I feel inhuman, it's debilitating. My major theme is just fear or contamination, I can't even make myself a meal I can't touch anything in the kitchen. I get stuck in the shower for 2 hours and when I don't shower because I'm depressed I feel like a walking germ. My hands are a mess, my school work is shit, I avoid and avoid and I'm just so tired of "living" like this. My psychiatrist said they don't have any therapists available right now like.... excuse me? What do you mean u don't have any 😭 I honestly don't even know why I'm typing this becuase nothing helps, nothing ever will. I'm so deep into this I can't get out, my room looks like shit, I can't live in this body anymore, I really can't. I let everyone down, I am and will be such a dissapointment. I don't have any dreams or goals or passions I just wasn't made to be here. I don't know how or who to ask for help like there's nothing anyone can do, I'm already on meds. I can't keep being like this, seeing everyone judge me for acting insane.
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- 21w
I started dealing with OCD when I became fixated on health issues, particularly the fear of contracting a life-threatening disease. If I experienced any kind of medical symptom, no matter how small, that even remotely hinted at something potentially fatal, it would drive me crazy, and I couldn’t stop obsessing over it. Then one day, I started having intrusive thoughts about accidentally hitting someone with my car, and I would end up driving in circles to check if I had. Eventually, I found myself overwhelmed by a flood of new obsessive thoughts and compulsions. One day, while I was at the park, a squirrel came near me, and for some reason, I felt like it attacked me. I Googled it and learned that squirrels could carry rabies, which spiraled me into a deep fear of rabies. I became consumed with the thought I received a bite from a squirrel, raccoon, or bat any time I’m in areas that trigger me. It started off only being inside then transferred to even being in my own home. This made me obsess over every physical sensation in my body, compulsively checking to make sure nothing was wrong. One compulsion that I hated the most would to be putting rubbing alcohol on me to make sure that I had no open wounds. Every day feels like I’m walking around in a fog of anxiety, constantly worrying that I won’t even make it to old age. Sometimes, it gets so overwhelming that I just want it all to end. It stresses me so bad at times to where my brain feels like I’ve been studying all day.
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- 10w
Everytime I do exposure therapy and even if it ends up good I get more nervous for the next time. How do I get past this I really need some help please. Now I am scared to even move the car after I drove on the main road 2 days ago.
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