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Your friend, who has obsessive-compulsive disorder, calls you frantically and tells you that she believes she just hit a person while ...
... driving in her car. You hurry to meet up with her and go back to the supposed site of the "accident" but find no clue that any hit-and-run had taken place. You cannot find an injured person, any damage to her car, skid marks on the road, etc. What do you do? You know that sometimes persons with OCD have the dreading feeling that somebody may die if they do not fulfill their compulsions or that they have caused somebody hurt through their actions? Should you still report the incident to the local police and employ their help? Or do you let it go and dismiss the incident?
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It may be that she barely brushed someone or narrowly missed them, but has the feeling that the accident was far worse then it was.
It may be up to you to report it and let the police determine what happened. Just to be sure to give them the information above.
The reasons I would not dismiss it are as follows.
1) What if someone was hit and is trying to report it? The chances seem remote based on the above but not impossible.
2) If she does not report it, she may feel that #1 is true and she will have to live with that guilt. Having OCD may worsen this as it may become a fixation for her.
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd/index.shtml
It may be up to you to report it and let the police determine what happened. Just to be sure to give them the information above.
The reasons I would not dismiss it are as follows.
1) What if someone was hit and is trying to report it? The chances seem remote based on the above but not impossible.
2) If she does not report it, she may feel that #1 is true and she will have to live with that guilt. Having OCD may worsen this as it may become a fixation for her.
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd/index.shtml
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