idk if this is an ocd thing?? but does anyone else ever get scared they're going to blurt out something awful, like the n word or something, while talking to someone or in a work meeting? like i would never say that word and i don't want to but i'm scared it's just going to come out of my mouth without me being able to control it.

Yup! I use to think the same while in a college class…like I would lose control and same something absurd or scream!

I’ve been that way before. I also had the worry, as a child, that thinking a word made me bad. I vividly remember not being able to say “hate” when I was four, and I thought that I hated something- so I ran upstairs to confess to my mom that I thought the word hate.

Yes! There was a period when I was so scared I'd accidentally blurt the N word even though I have literally never once in my life said that word

OCD will make us believe that just because we think something it means it’s true or that we are bad! I still have some of those today where my brain is trying to convince me to do a compulsion to get rid of the anxiety I have towards having negative thoughts towards myself

Yep!!!!! All last year that was a huge issue of mine. It still happens sometimes those thoughts are just so intense. That’s how I got diagnosed in the first place.