What subtype of OCD is this?

I think this is magical thinking but I’m not 100% sure. I get really scared and think all of my loved ones will die in a car accident. Especially if they’re running an errand for me or coming to visit me then it’s like 100% more likely for them to get in a car wreck because it was FOR ME. Or if I’m with my family members and one wants to drive to get food, etc I feel like I HAVE to go WITH them in order to prevent a car crash from happening and them dying. Like if I stay home then I’m ensuring their death? Does this make sense? Anyone else relate? What on earth is it?! It’s constant and automatic and everyday.

Magical Thinking OCD

Username: MikecicleMikecicle

Date posted: 19w ago

Sounds like magical thinking to me. Maybe a little bit of responsibility/harm as well but really, the theme doesn’t matter. It’s truly all the same. With OCD, people have this cognitive distortion known as “Thought-Action Fusion”. Basically an inflated sense of responsibility due to our intrusive thoughts. In TAF we also believe that thinking about the same thing over and over will cause something to happen and or prevent something from happening IRL. Remember, your brain is an organ that will throw up thoughts you can’t control. What we can control is whether we interact with the thoughts. Best of luck!

Username: Anonymous_OCDerAnonymous_OCDer

Date posted: 19w ago

@Mikecicle Thank you so much!

Username: kickflipkickflip

Date posted: 19w ago

This is soooo me!! One of my core fears is tied to feeling like I’m responsible for the safety of others. My magical thinking has told me that if I think a certain thing or a certain way, that will become reality. I have to avoid mental compulsions to self soothe, which is so hard. You’re not alone. It is extremely difficult to break out of the cycle. My therapist has had me practice reading articles about car crashes and purposefully thinking of harm happening to help me lean into the uncertainty that maybe it will happen, but it isn’t worth my energy to figure out if it will happen or not.

Username: Anonymous_OCDerAnonymous_OCDer

Date posted: 19w ago

@kickflip Thank you so much!

Username: Adrenalin1Adrenalin1

Date posted: 16w ago

My ocd started like this when I was ten. Do not believe this, it's all lies that OCD is throwing at you. Do not make any compulsions! It's very important. If you're a christian, pray to God to take care of these people, BUT only once and then try to be calm and continue with your daily tasks. Do not let the prayer become a compulsion itself! All these fears are lies, don't believe them. If you stop paying attention, they will decrease. God bless!

Username: Anonymous_OCDerAnonymous_OCDer

Date posted: 16w ago

@Adrenalin1 Thank you. You’re right, I can see the prayers becoming compulsions. Thank you!

Username: fcknsav

Date posted: 24w ago

Is this ocd?

I’m not sure if this is ocd but sometimes I’ll just be doing literally anything and my brain will be like what if this this and this happens and it’ll be like so random like an example id be like walking home and id be like what if my whole family got k!lled in this really brutal way and it’ll have nothing to do with anything im doing ill just get a really vivid thought of something horrible happening and it freaks me out every time and sometimes I just have random ones about like me like having a whole scenario of me singing in front of my whole school and everyone loving it (I can’t sing) sometimes the thoughts are just intrusive thoughts or somethings they’re like full on daydreams where there’s like a whole plot to it like even the bad scary ones it’s weird

Username: adams2024

Date posted: 23w ago

My ocd

Hi! Okay so everyday I wake up and freak out that I am dying or going to die soon and then because I think that, I feel like I am manifesting it but I cannot stop getting intrusive thoughts about myself or someone I love dying. I also can’t get in my car and drive without thinking I hit someone and somehow just didn’t know? And then I will just wait anxiously and think police will show up at my door. And lastly, I live in the past and always think about all of my mistakes and I can’t forgive myself and keep thinking my past will come back to haunt me. Does anyone relate to anything I said? I think it would just help to know I am not alone.

Username: mnkos

Date posted: 21w ago

is this a concern? or am i not in the right place?

TW for mental health issues, death, ptsd, ED i guess ill just start off by saying that i have struggled since i was young with severe anxiety and panic attacks since i was about five but an onslaught of CPTSD worsened a lot of things for me. i developed an eating disorder in my teens and was hospitalized for it. i’ve been in and out of therapy since i was ten and while i do my best without medication to live my life to the fullest, i often feel like i don’t deserve the successes and support i’ve received in the last few years b/c i feel like i don’t deserve to be happy at all. i saw a video recently of a girl talking about her obsessive hypochondriac thoughts that i resonated with and when i read the comments, a lot of people pointed out that it might be ocd. it hasn’t ever been a thought that crossed my mind and now im wondering if im twisting that video into some sort of self diagnosis for myself. im wondering if it’s just my high anxiety that’s causing these severely intrusive thoughts. for example, i have had a really hard time sleeping recently because the thought that i or my partner might die in my sleep keeps me up. if i have an aneurysm or a heart attack in the middle of the night and die, or worse, if my partner has an aneurysm or heart attack, is it because i don’t deserve to be happy with him? i don’t deserve a wonderful relationship? another thought i have is when i drive with us both in the car, im going to crash and severely injure both of us or kill us both. i have never once crashed my car or gotten into an accident btw, but for some reason i just get this extremely morbid thought that im going to crash and it’ll be the end. i had a weirdly spiritual experience/revelation in 2020/21 about the multiverse and i keep thinking that every night i actually die or that i get into accidents or something morbid happens and im somehow timeline jumping and going to a different multiverse and that’s been my odd way of coping with these thoughts. i guess im just trying to figure out if this is even remotely similar to OCD or if im just over analyzing it bc of my anxiety/hypochondria i guess?? i dont know i just want help. if this isn’t OCD, please tell me and i will delete this post and app and ill sincerely apologize to everyone who actually suffers. 🙏

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