obsess about this?
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Do you work in the USPS?
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I’ve really been into the computer game, Deer Hunter I and II. Anyway, since Saturday, I’ve been obsessing over shooting people. Its pretty much reality here, I see someone or thing and I want to shoot it. If someone ticks me off at work I get angry with them and feel like shooting them. It’s scaring me all these thoughts. In all actuality I would NEVER shoot someone. I can’t even stand to kill a fly. I called my pdoc and she says its common for people to have these fixations. I’m scared that I might actuallly do something. The nurse was pretty confident I wouldn’t but how am I suppose to get rid of this? What happens with you when you accidently skip a few doses of meds? I didn’t miss this many. What do you think?
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Your game was a trigger for this- imo. Why don’t you stop the game for awhile until the thoughts subside…… You are not going to shoot someone- you are just in fear of the fact that you even thought it. Jan
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bgrape wrote in message <01be6070$87e9c240$bf10a3d1@bgrape>… >since Saturday, I’ve been obsessing over shooting people. Its pretty much >reality here, I see someone or thing and I want to shoot it. If someone >ticks me off at work I get angry with them and feel like shooting them. >It’s scaring me all these thoughts. What happens with you when you accidently >skip a few doses of meds
What you are experiencing is a definite obsession that is common to people with OCD. That is the obessesion that you are going to hurt someone. The best treatment is a combination of medication and cognitive behavioral therapy CBT. If you miss the medication you are not going to shoot someone., the feelings will just become mre intense/ If you think that the computer game you like has anything to do with your obsession, stop playing it immediately. There have been countless people on this newsgroup with problems like yours. I am one of them. I used to have this overwhelming horrlble fear that I was going to rape somebody. I knew that I would never do that, but the fear still persisted. That is because it is OCD. I wish you luck! Christopher
