Panic & Intrusive thoughts = OCD?

[Tomimo]

After my terrible night last night I was thinking......if I suffer from horrible intrusive thoughts, not about anything specific but being scared about hurting people, does that mean I have also got a form of OCD or can the thoughts be caused by anxiety.

I thought that OCD involved a repetitive behaviour but I read that it can be just the thoughts and it scares me to think that I might have it and not know.

Does anyone have any experience of this?

Annie x

[molly15]

my brother has the same thoughts annie he was diagnosed with anxiety .he has had it a while and has never hurt anyone and never will .you wont either when he gets the thoughts he takes his mind to a lovely garden where theres a river and lovely flowers and he imagines hes at peace.it took him a while to learn it but now when he gets the bad thoughts he takes himself away and it has helped him a lot.i no it sounds to easy but its better to try something.you have got nothing to lose .keep practising it im sure it will hlp let me no annie.take care marcia xxxx

marcia lowe

[Meg]

Obsessive Compulsive Behaviour in Thoughts (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2282)

Meg
www.anxietymanagementltd.com

Your anxiety is the human representation of the pictures that you paint using your many vivid colours of revolving and reoccurring thoughts.
How big is your gallery ?