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Zico

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  1. Going on our first holiday as a family this week and my OCD has decided to run riot. What happens if I get sick? What happens if I can’t travel? What happens if I pick up a bug and give it to my toddler / wife and ruin the holiday? Does anyone else have this issue before travelling? I’m trying to think that these kind of things are out of my control and what will be will be but I’m on edge 24/7 especially when outside / in public.
  2. I think the key is to realise the thought isn’t a genuine thought, more of a false one. I’ve been trying to follow the Brainlock four steps.
  3. I’m also of the mind that I need to be 100% certain of everything. I find it hard to accept that in life that isn’t possible, have you been trying the CBT exercises?
  4. Yeah it’s quite exhausting. I think it’s because the car behind me stopped but that could be because the light changed when I had already passed it. At first it wasn’t really a serious thought but the more I thought about it the worse it got which is typical of my OCD. By not connecting the thoughts do you mean ignoring them?
  5. Wow that is a lot of pressure. I think that’s the top and bottom of my OCD. The actual outcome isn’t worth the worry. Literally would rather have broke my leg than taken my driving test on the morning of it. Thanks for the replies.
  6. Yeah that’s my thoughts exactly. I think I focus when driving but like typical ocd the longer time goes on the more skewed the memory gets of an incident where I think I did badly. I suppose the best way to think about it is to put it behind me as I can’t change it now even if I did.
  7. Yeah that thought process helps thanks. I think because I struggled so much with text anxiety that the idea of losing my license and have to retake it is pretty stressful.
  8. Passed fairly recently and my ocd has latched onto this. Main fears are getting caught speeding, losing license and going through a red light. This morning I’ve convinced myself I went through a red light even though I would have noticed. The lore I think back the harder it is to remember.
  9. Great advice! If you pay the thoughts too much attention they almost become "real".
  10. This is very helpful. The most frustrating thing about this is I have done this job for years without giving it a second thought. Thank you for your help!
  11. I have suffered OCD on and off since i was around 10. It seems to manifest itself through different mediums some of which being sleep/germs/safety of loved ones. I have always been able to keep a lid on it and try not to let it get on top of me. I work in a healthcare setting and recently an intrusive though of catching a blood borne infection through a needle stick injury has been stuck on my mind. I regularly take bloods as part of my occupation and this thought has been stuck on my mind for a few months now, even to the point of checking my gloves after seeing a patient. I carry out the checks (fill glove with water to look for puncture marks) which seems to ease my mind but the doubts always seem to come back even after the checks. Is this typical OCD behaviour? Its even got to the point where i am looking for clinics to get tested.
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