Hit and Run OCD - What does it look like and how to do treatment

Hit and Run OCD

Have you ever hit a bump with your car and wondered what it was? Most people do, but when this happens it’s a question for a few seconds and then their brain moves on. What is every bump you hit he wondered if it was a person. Every noise you heard me do you wonder if you had somebody. Maybe your brains even telling you that you want to hit somebody on purpose. You obsessively check your mirrors to make sure the pedestrian wasn’t hit. It’s possible you go back to make sure that you didn’t hit somebody. You feel a lot of anxiety and stress about this. You do not feel comfort until you get a verification that you didn’t actually hit someone. If this sounds like you, you might struggle with OCD. More specifically hit and run OCD. Some put this in the category of harm OCD.
 
Let’s go through how someone may experience hit and run OCD and what the treatment looks like.

• Only driving with the people in the car. These passengers can verify to the driver if they actually had somebody or not. Because the passenger will definitely say something right.
• Individuals may entirely avoid driving altogether. They may avoid certain areas such as schools, roads with bike lanes, anywhere there are potholes, and playgrounds. If they can completely avoid these areas they don’t have to worry about accidentally hitting somebody.
• Often individuals will reassure themselves not to say certain words or a statement such as no one was hit, nothing bad is going to happen, it was just a pothole, you would know if you actually had somebody. The problem with this is that they can tell us of this but the brain will immediately start doubting again.
• Individuals will start seeking reassurance from others. Ask their spouse, ask their parents, as their friends. Do you think I should go back? Do you think I would know if I actually had somebody? Do you feel like I should follow my feelings if I had somebody or not? They want the other individuals to tell them that they are fine Internet go back. But this often is not enough and causes them to go back anyway.
• Often individuals will not even listen to the radio. I want  to make sure they hear every single sound such as the screeching tires, or even the sound of somebody getting hurt. They may be completely hyper focused on the sounds.
• The rearview mirror as well as the side mirrors become your best friend. Let me obsessively look at these to make sure they didn’t hit somebody. They could even be looking for other cars that my signal to them that something happened.
• Probably the biggest compulsion is actually returning to the scene. They may go around in circles and check the spots very clearly to make sure nobody was there or that they didn’t see any blood.
• They may look for news reports to see if they said anything about someone getting hit by a car.

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