Scared a bat landed on me

[maz063]

Hi everyone.

So I've been doing really well with my OCD for a while but lately rabies and bat fears have started cropping up. I just need a little help talking myself out of it this time.

So I was walking with my friend after a small party late at night and it was pretty foggy. I suddenly felt something drop on my upper left back. Kinda like a large water drop or something like that feeling. I felt my back and tried to look behind and saw nothing. Took my jacket off to check and everything. Asked my friend who was ahead of me if she saw anything flying or making noises around her.

Part of me wonders if it could have been dew or fog drip from a nearby tree or streetlight. But my brain keeps taking me back to rabies and it's really hard to shake it since the drop feeling on my back startled me.

So as ridiculous as this sounds, I'm here to ask:

- If a bat would have landed on me, I would have realized it right? They have claws and they don't just feel like large water drops.
- The bat wouldn't have magically disappeared or flew away within the few seconds of me noticing right? It would have had to vanish in a few seconds which doesn't happen.
- I would have heard some wing flapping or SOMETHING to indicated that an animal was that close to me.

I'm trying really hard to make the case for why it wasn't a bat and that only someone with rabies anxiety would even automatically assume it was a bat in the first place. Like it wouldn't just land on me then disappear like that right?

I really hate this and I know my mental health has been kinda bad this week compared to how well I've been doing so I really just need a little encouragement that I'm ok and that it's my anxiety. Thanks

[glassgirlw]

Do you have a bite mark? You don’t just get rabies from a bat lightly dropping on you and taking off again. You for sure would have noticed one flying, either by sight or sound. I think your anxiety has you adding 2+2 and coming up with 12 here. This is not something to worry about.

[nomorepanic]

Hi

This is just a courtesy reply to let you know that your post was moved from its original place to a sub-forum that is more relevant to your issue.

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[maz063]

I don’t think so? It’s not worth checking my back because I have all sorts of bumps, pricks, and bug bites on my back so I don’t want to look and freak out the minute I see two pinpricks

[maz063]

Ok so I'm feeling better than I was before and not spiraling but the fear and doubt still linger a bit. I'm worrying for nothing, right? I didn't get hit by a bat.