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You ever drive over a pothole and convince yourself you hit someone 🫠
You ever drive over a pothole and convince yourself you hit someone 🫠
You have to rely on the facts and your reasoning ability rather than the irrational fact-free thinking from your OCD mind. Did you see a person getting run over? If not, then you should not give importance to the thinking that you did. Just blow it off and move on to something better.
I went a whole year this being my fear 😵💫
@Hope309 It’s been about a week and a half of me worried about driving. Hopefully it doesn’t last too long
That's me, all potholes and bumps on the road for sure lol. I even imagine myself accidentally running into non-existant cars when I take turns and stuff.
@OCDNoThankYe 😩
Yes and look back or drive back around to make sure you didn't. Its a nightmare. I worked hard on this one with my therapist and have gotten much better.
@Mon7 Literally looked on my way back home and even looked at my car 😩
When I got diagnosed I realized this was the ocd, I’ve driven back to check for the potholes I’ve even watched the news for reports
@Flyfishingguy Literally me checking the news last night and this morning
@Nicolefchav You got this
Oh my goodness, this obsession is incredibly common! I hope you used your response prevention skills when this popped in and just kept on driving without checking! Here's a resource, in case it's helpful! https://www.treatmyocd.com/blog/heres-why-response-prevention-is-the-key-to-ocd-recovery
@Jennifer Dalimonte I’m not there yet as I just had my first session yesterday but I hope to get there one day.
I’m trying to stop recording my drives because I got so stuck in this theme. I always loved driving and never had a problem til November. I’m just starting to get over it now.
@KCD I contemplated doing that too. I loved driving too and didn’t have a problem with it till last week.
@Nicolefchav Yup, mine came on suddenly. I was finally over the theme that set me off initially in July and I think the OCD just latched on. It’s exhausting.
@KCD It is exhausting but I’m glad to hear that other people experience it and not just me even if it can feel lonely and overwhelming
@Nicolefchav So lonely and my husband is sympathetic but just doesn’t get it
@KCD My mom is sympathetic of it too but she doesn’t get it
You need to think with your human mind that uses facts and reason rather than your old primate mind that relies on guesses and irrational thoughts . You have to use your eyes and ears to develop thoughts and ideas and gently ignore and move on from the irrational thoughts to something better in the real moment .
It’s like I drive a little ways on the main road and then something in my head says danger turn around and I do! I don’t k ow what’s dangerous though. I feel like I’ll never get past this and I’m so frustrated
I was driving when I passed by 2 kids playing with a ball in their front yard, their ball made it to the street, I slowed down and continued my route and looked back to to make sure they’re ok and when I got home I started getting intrusive thoughts that I ran over the kid 😢
Soooo maybe a bit TMI, but I just struggled to take a shower because my mind was convincing me either a shark or, and this is just recently, that a ship propeller will just come out of nowhere and kill me! Does anyone else have these wild creative messed up images? It got so bad I had to cut my shower short!
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