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[pengu...@gmail.com]

Can OCD cause all sorts of Phobias, because a person can feel if they
> try something it can't possibly come out right?  - uncertainty -
> I might be afraid to get in my car because I feel it won't start or
> will break down. The mechanic tells me it runs fine, but I just FEEL it
> will break down, so I don't want to drive it and get trouble.
> I might be afraid to check my balance in an account because I am afraid
> the balance will be too small even though I am the only one on the
> account and I didn't write any checks or use the debit card. I know
> logically it's not true but I feel it is true, and ask someone else to
> check it for me.
> I might be afraid to find a new location because I feel I will have to
> get lost, even though I in fact rarely get lost.
> I might be afraid to buy something because all the details in the store
> are new to me and confuse me, and the store frightens me as a result.
> My family reassures me that anyone is confused with something new and
> cannot get it all right with no experience, and that what I am buying
> is not expensive and there is little to fear.   I still feel I cannot
> approach buying it.  I use old things or do without instead of buying
> new ones.  I do not refer to major purchases, but small things like
> buying a radio under $100 or a shopping cart or a cheat voice recorded
> under $100 but I cannot approach it so my wife buys it for me.

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[georgiehopper]

I'm no doctor, but OCD can also be accompanies by other forms of
anxiety. I have some of your same fears, and sometimes I obsess over
those fears. Do you take anything for it? I do, I take zoloft and it
helps me alot.

pengu...@gmail.com wrote:
> Can OCD cause all sorts of Phobias, because a person can feel if they

> > try something it can't possibly come out right? ?- uncertainty -

> > I might be afraid to get in my car because I feel it won't start or
> > will break down. The mechanic tells me it runs fine, but I just FEEL it
> > will break down, so I don't want to drive it and get trouble.
> > I might be afraid to check my balance in an account because I am afraid
> > the balance will be too small even though I am the only one on the
> > account and I didn't write any checks or use the debit card. I know
> > logically it's not true but I feel it is true, and ask someone else to
> > check it for me.
> > I might be afraid to find a new location because I feel I will have to
> > get lost, even though I in fact rarely get lost.
> > I might be afraid to buy something because all the details in the store
> > are new to me and confuse me, and the store frightens me as a result.
> > My family reassures me that anyone is confused with something new and
> > cannot get it all right with no experience, and that what I am buying

> > is not expensive and there is little to fear. ? I still feel I cannot
> > approach buying it. ?I use old things or do without instead of buying
> > new ones. ?I do not refer to major purchases, but small things like