Punkdonkey Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Hi all I wonder if anyone can help me I have been having a really hard time recently. For the last week I have been obsessing over something and it will not go away. It is making me really upset and i am getting the most anxious i have been for a long time. I went to the doctor a week ago and was prescibed medication. Here is my obsession. A week ago I bought an xbox games consule which was second hand. With it was included a container with a lot of free games. I worried about this thinking it was put there by mistake and i would get in trouble with the police for keeeping it. I also worried that if i took the games back they may harm somebody The xbox it self was not working so I went back with both the xbox and the free game. I was awake all the night before i did this obsessing about it. I awoke the next day feeling really bad and my fear of the games hurting people because i had done something to them to hurt people became worse. The next day i took the games machine back and they gave me a new one no bother. They also said that the games that were with it were free and it was ok to take them, but i still worried about it and told them to keep the games. Later that day I really paniced and thought what if the games harm people. I went back and said that I would like the games back and they said ok and they gave me them back. I asked at the time is that definitly the same games and the said yes. Since then I have been obessing over the fact that they may have given me the wrong games back and if i put something in the games to harm people then they were still there in the shop. I cannot relax i think this is really and think maybe i should go to the police an tell them to make sure no one gets hurt. I cannnot relax thinking something bad will happen because of me at any time. I know i did not do anything and have not thought that i did logically, i would never hurt anyone. But still the thought persists and will not go and i think this is real not OCD. Does anyone out there think this is OCD or something else such as some other form of delusion. I had a similiar thing about 8 months ago weher i thought I attacked someone. It did not go away for a long time and it made me feel really bad. Can anyone give me any tips in dealing with this obssession. I feel really bad Blessings Ron Link to comment
Guest Annabel Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 (edited) Hi Ron, This situation sounds so difficult for you. Perhaps it's OCD just with restricted insight- although you are aware that it is an obsession, otherwise you wouldn't have posted here! I have definitely had times of more and less insight/awareness that it is actually a product of my mind, and I have straightforward OCD, so yours may easily be the same. With this obsession- what mechanism is it that you imagine will cause the harm to people? is it a magical force or because you've handled the discs? I imagine it's OCD, have you ever had CBT or other therapy? What did your GP think when you went to see her/him? Anna x Edited June 13, 2011 by Annabel Link to comment
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