Jay4557
- Date posted
- 1y
Hit and run OCD
For anyone who has suffered from this, how do you manage this type of OCD on a daily basis? It’s crippling my day to day life and sometimes i even avoid driving to places.
Tea and HoneyTea and Honey
- Date posted
- 1y
This is a fairly common form of OCD. Nathan Peterson talks about this every so often on his YouTube videos. This is where you need to apply ERP. Don’t avoid driving. This only feeds the compulsion. Avoidance makes OCD bigger. When you drive, expect a trigger to come up. It probably will. Your OCD will tell you that the bump on the road was probably a person and that you hit them, and that you have to go back and check. Label this as an obsessive thought. Labeling is very useful NOCD management. How do you know that this is an obsessive thought. You are going to treat it like one. Which an OCD means, you do not give into the temptation to try to fix or correct or do anything about your obsessive thought 
Tea and HoneyTea and Honey
- Date posted
- 1y
Therefore, ERP means that, even though you feel the temptation to go back and check, you don’t do it. You practice driving while you experience the trigger over and over without doing anything to check or make sure that you didn’t hit anybody. You live with the uncertainty. Tell yourself, maybe maybe not. Maybe you hit somebody, and maybe you didn’t.  But until you have any REAL signs of danger, you are not going to do anything, and you are going to go forward as if you never had that obsessive thought. It will get easier with practice!!!!
Tea and HoneyTea and Honey
- Date posted
- 1y
Watch this video!! It talks about exactly what you are saying! https://youtu.be/_vioIObvTrk?si=AC1Ybq9EEMjCNnCy
Jay4557Jay4557
- Date posted
- 1y
I have thoughts of someone crossing the road in front of me when in reality nobody is there. Do I just accept that yeah maybe someone was there?
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