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I dont know if this ocd or what please help
Dear All here
I have a very huge problem since April 2013 I came back from a trip and in 1-2 weeks i got the flu runny nose sore throat swollen node under armpit and fever and i got my self panicked as i never had an underarm lymph node before. Then i started worrying about everything white tongue, muscle pains checking for swollen nodes and finding some, rash etc.. my risk was that i observed a scratch or a nick on my finger and i though to myself that maybe a person pricked me with a needle and he had HIV he used the needle on himself then pricked me or scratched me with it and ever since iam living in extensive fear. Please help me
I have a very huge problem since April 2013 I came back from a trip and in 1-2 weeks i got the flu runny nose sore throat swollen node under armpit and fever and i got my self panicked as i never had an underarm lymph node before. Then i started worrying about everything white tongue, muscle pains checking for swollen nodes and finding some, rash etc.. my risk was that i observed a scratch or a nick on my finger and i though to myself that maybe a person pricked me with a needle and he had HIV he used the needle on himself then pricked me or scratched me with it and ever since iam living in extensive fear. Please help me
Actually when the OCD suffer got together, and encoruage and share the syptom is kind of fun.
But we always think that the own unique behavior can lead to HIV even everyone is saying you are NO RISK. I think this is a very classical systom of OCD. Therefore, I think treament and therpy are needed for us.
I stilll didn't take med, I am thinking when I will start it.
But we always think that the own unique behavior can lead to HIV even everyone is saying you are NO RISK. I think this is a very classical systom of OCD. Therefore, I think treament and therpy are needed for us.
I stilll didn't take med, I am thinking when I will start it.
if he does a test based on a non exposure event , this will be the start of a non ending journey , 1000 test will follow ...
don't do a test if you had no exposure ...
stick to what JGF25 told you
don't do a test if you had no exposure ...
stick to what JGF25 told you
I agree with JGF25. It's hard to get HIV.
from: http://ocd.stanford.edu/about/understanding.html
"Hypothetically, primitive cleaning and checking behaviors are "hard-wired" in the thalamus".
So in short, it is normal for everyone to verify anything that maybe harmful.
Why don't you do a HIV test?
from: http://ocd.stanford.edu/about/understanding.html
"Hypothetically, primitive cleaning and checking behaviors are "hard-wired" in the thalamus".
So in short, it is normal for everyone to verify anything that maybe harmful.
Why don't you do a HIV test?
You sound like you have HIV anxiety rather than OCD. You need to get to the place that I call "whatever." This is where you think the thought, you say "whatever" and you busy yourself with something else. In order to get to this place, in your case since it has been a year already, you should see a psychologist to learn how to retrain your brain so to speak. You learn how to counter the thought with positive statements of fact, you learn how to self-coach yourself through the thought, you learn how to breathe through the anxiety. You learn that it is only a thought and thoughts cannot hurt us. So please give some thought to seeing a professional.
The truth is you are classifying something as a risk when in reality there was no risk at all. HIV is not something that is easy to get. It has to get deep into the tissue to survive and even when this occurs, the chance of becoming HIV positive is around 0.03%. Think about what it would feel like when somebody jabbed a needle into you. You would feel it right? Don't you feel it when you get the flu shot or any other shot for that matter? It hurts and there is no mistaking that it happened. Close your eyes and picture the scenario and you will see that this is all a fiction that you have made up in your mind due to your fear of HIV.
Stop checking for symptoms. Don't look up stuff on the internet. Don't palpate your lymph nodes because they will actually become swollen just because you are poking at them. Stop yourself and see a professional.
Take care and let us know how you are doing. A year is too long in my book. :)
The truth is you are classifying something as a risk when in reality there was no risk at all. HIV is not something that is easy to get. It has to get deep into the tissue to survive and even when this occurs, the chance of becoming HIV positive is around 0.03%. Think about what it would feel like when somebody jabbed a needle into you. You would feel it right? Don't you feel it when you get the flu shot or any other shot for that matter? It hurts and there is no mistaking that it happened. Close your eyes and picture the scenario and you will see that this is all a fiction that you have made up in your mind due to your fear of HIV.
Stop checking for symptoms. Don't look up stuff on the internet. Don't palpate your lymph nodes because they will actually become swollen just because you are poking at them. Stop yourself and see a professional.
Take care and let us know how you are doing. A year is too long in my book. :)
Majorly this is the only one JGF but its really haunting me anything in my body i relate it to this i had muscle pains in the same locaion twice in a year so i linked it to this risk
That was almost a year ago and it makes me sad to hear of people suffering for such a long time.
Do you have other irrational fears or is this the only one?
Do you have other irrational fears or is this the only one?
Please read my post which is the some fear I am suffering. It is OCD. Guess what, I am thinking I was stabbed by the needle, and virus from needle may be detected three or five years later ......because that guy has invented some new technology virus to inject me which can't be detected within three month.
Is that too irrational? But for me, I always in the fear of this. I always believe in that a so called " what if it really can happen to me." Even know, I am still feeling that fear :(
Is that too irrational? But for me, I always in the fear of this. I always believe in that a so called " what if it really can happen to me." Even know, I am still feeling that fear :(
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