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It's OCD or do I actually have something to worry about?


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okay, I have history of obsessive thoughts and stuff. My recent thought has been about HIV. I've had obsessive thoughts about this before. I believe I put my self at risk of catching HIV, it happened about six years ago. The past year I have been obsessing over it none stop. I think I'm making myself ill. I had a hiv test a few months ago and I came back negative, but that's no helped me, at first I felt better and I didn't worry about HIV for a long time. I recently read something in my birth control pill leaflet, I said that the pill I'm on can interfere with blood tests, so that tittered my HiV fear agin. What if my birth control pill interfered with the blood test. Also I started I think, if its been 6 years since I possibly caught hiv, wouldn't it of already turned in to aids by now, and does the normal hiv blood test pick up the aids stage of hiv. I'm really scared, I can't function properly. This thought keeps tuning through my head. I could go to my doctor but I always cry when I'm trying to talk to him. I'm sorry if I've made spelling mistakes, perfect spelling and grammar is that least of my worries. Thanks to anyone who reads this.

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Hi snowflake,

Fear of having caught HIV is a very common OCD fear. I can't say for certain that it's OCD in your case (as I can't in anyone's on here) but it does sound like the likely explanation, especially since you have had a negative HIV test. If you find it difficult to speak with your doctor could you maybe write down what you are feeling and show it to him/her so that you can get some help, maybe CBT?

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