Hi. Every now and then, my OCD manifests in thoughts about how I or someone I know could have been seriously injured or even killed in certain incidents - no matter how long ago the incident occured. To give a few examples, I have sporadically worried about how I could have been kidnapped in a theme park after my primary school class failed to notice I was missing, how I could have accidentally spilled corosive liquid over my body when I got out the wrong container in a science experiment, how I could have been hit by a car when I momenterilly didn't look when crossing the road, and right now how I or my sister could have three years ago died of hypoxia when doing the popular hyperventilation 'fainting game.'
As far as I know, none of these situations posed an immediate threat and I was completely unscathed. When these thoughts occur, I try to tell myself that none of these scenarios would have occured and try to provide rational reasons for why, but this provides little comfort. Trying to dismiss things as being 'in the past' offers no relief. I have recently been doing CBT for my hypochondria, which has helped those fears greatly. However, it's harder to apply the rationale of "it's just an obsessive thought to be ignored" (note, oversimplification) to these obsessions as they are about things that actually did occur, not worries over what might occur in the future.
I would just like to know if anyone else has had similar obsessions and if there are any specific strategies to better cope with them.
Regards, Peterthegreatworrier.