I have a question about jump cables to the car. I have OCD fear about battery acid and I think that maybe there is some acid on the cables. I know this is an obsession, but I dont know where to draw the line. My husband and I have discussions about this. I want to put the cables in a bag or some kind of cover. Do you mind give me some of reality check? My therapist has told me to do like ordinary people do. Do you have the cables loose in the car together with other stuff?

I’m having disruptive thoughts about my car alarm going off when I’m away. For background, I’m a college student that commutes to class. Lots are huge and I spend hours at a time away from my car. My biggest fear is that I’ll press the panic button on my car, and that it will go off until the battery dies, or be a nuisance to others. I’m sometimes late to class because I compulsively check every aspect of my car to make sure it is okay, as well as continuously going back to my car to check if I accidentally pressed the panic button.

can someone explain what this could be? so whenever my boyfriend talks so happily about his car and how happy it makes him and how much fun he has with it.. thoughts about him getting into a car accident always come to my mind .. whenever he talks about the car i always think "what if now that he’s talking so happily about his car something happens to it or he gets into a car accident" and i hate that i get these thoughts they make me so sad… and then this one time me and him got into an argument and without even wanting to think this and without any warning this thought came into my head "maybe i do want you to get into an accident" and i hated that that thought popped into my head it makes me cry i wouldn’t want a single thing to happen to him is this intrusive thoughts??? is this ocd is this normal for ocd pls help?

I am brand new to this app. I've been seeing a therapist for a while, but not one that specializes in OCD. I'm having a hard time recognizing when a thought about something being contaminated is just an OCD thought, and when it is rational. I mean, germs exist - so a thing can be contaminated with XYZ. I don't know when I'm over estimating how easily things are "spreading" (which because I have a diagnoses, must be an OCD thing) and when I don't need to worry about something anymore. I'm getting caught in loops with rituals until I satisfy the anxiety or I have been at it for too long to continue. Does anyone have tips for recognizing when something is indeed an OCD thought rather than an rational concern?