Hello, don't worry this isn't reassurance seeking I am just genuinely curious and a bit confused about Harm Ocd. I'm just wondering whether Harm Ocd involves the fear of other people causing harm to other people? Like not necessarily the fear of myself being is the one causing the harm, but more like fearing other people's ability to cause harm to other people (especially those I care about) and then me not being able to do anything about it, or not being able to do anything to prevent those people from causing harm, not being able to prevent the harm being done... Aka responsibility over things that happen to other people that doesn't necessarily involve myself. Does that still fall under that umbrella? Because everytime HOCD is being explained/defined, I've only seen it being defined as, "the fear of you causing harm to other people". I know OCD is still OCD regardless of its subtype but I still wanna know.

I'd say maybe because I've had this happen to me as well and I kinda started noticing it was my brain thinking too far. If you're not certain maybe give a small prayer for the person you're thinking of.

That’s something I can relate to, I’ve experienced family members interacting with each other and worrying that they could cause harm. All my life, ever since I was a boy of 8 - 10yrs of age. I would worry about my mum getting hurt, killed or injured. I’d mainly worry about her dying... she came home late from work one night, I was about 8 or 10 yrs old and I became extremely worried/anxious and thought the worst. I thought she may have been knocked down by a speeding motorist. She hadn’t, but mind mind jumped to the worst case scenario. Then when I was in my 20’s I heard that a lady had been knocked down in my local area. I immediately thought it was my mum, I would also worry about my dog, Max... if anything happened to him. So, I guess it is a form of OCD, you fear harm happening to loved ones or them harming each other.

I think so I am not a mental health professional by any means, just college student also with OCD and for me those thoughts sound similar to ones I had when I was developing harm thoughts like: what if my brother hurt himself?, I need to check on my family to make sure they are okay? What if I hurt someone and I don't remember? Harm OCD really is so awful and frustrating to live with.