(tw for mentions of violence/crimes/illness thoughts) does having intrusive thoughts about bad events happening to your loved ones (crimes, accidents, illnesses, etc), and doing compulsions to prevent these things from happening, classify as a form of harm OCD or responsibility OCD? i've been plagued by this since i was very little, since i used to be convinced that my parents would die if they weren't in immediate reach, and in the worst cases i had really bad crises where i was deeply, absolutely and completely convinced that they HAD actually died in a car accident if they weren't home and no one could convince me otherwise. if someone doesn't come back home before a certain time or doesn't answer texts, if their behavior is slightly unusual, i get extremely detailed intrusive thoughts about all the ways they could have died or been victims of crimes, i have to check the news to see if there's been any reported accidents, i call them even 20+ times in a row, check every single social media for their last traces, text the people they're out with and do a mental ritual of mine that i also use in general to prevent bad things from happening (repeating "thank you thank you thank you" in my head to replace bad thoughts with a good one, so the universe will know im grateful and i wont cause bad events with my bad thoughts). i got better but i still cant let go of the idea that thinking about something bad will make it happen and it will be my fault for causing harm to someone or myself. if i notice anything slightly out of the norm like breath rhythm etc, i start having intrusive thoughts about them having a terminal disease so i start researching the symptoms and eventually do the ritual again. my latest episodes were about my dad dying from heart attack, my brother being electrocuted, and my sister being kidnapped when i had a missed call from her. it also happens with crimes i hear about on the news etc. out the blue i'd get detailed thoughts about the victim experiencing the crime, especially those of sexual nature or extremely brutal ones, and not only they would frighten me because of the content, but also because i couldn't make sure that the victim was healing (i used to research online if they had left any interviews to know about their current state). on top of it, i was scared that if i kept thinking about these things, eventually those same crimes would happen to me. i'd make them real by thinking about them too much. so i'd have to do my "thank you" ritual again. im not sure how to classify all of this besides just calling it OCD, i've had lots of themes but this was always the most prominent and frightening one.