If she leaves the house she’ll cause accidents

[Delia32Participant]

hello;

Can anyone help? My mum seems too have this form of OCD where she thinks if she leaves the house she will somehow cause accidents to happen. I ask her, how many have you caused in the past? I keep telling her that she’s not caused accidents before so why would that start  now?  I try to get her to just sit down and relax and talk about it rationally but she says she can’t control these OCD thoughts rise and fall. How can I help her cope better with the intrusive thoughts?

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Hi:

Forum moderators here; we’re sorry you haven’t had many replies yet. Please don’t take this personally or ever think you’re alone. It may just be that forum users are taking a bit of  time to consider how to reply and support you.

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