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Hi all, thanks for your kind words! Just to clarify, I didn't just stop taking the meds. With the doctor I took SSRIs for 6 months and then we decided to try to see if it had helped. And so I came off and I still do CBT worksheets and things had been really fine for a few months, but since being in clinical more consistetntly some symptoms have gotten a little worse. Mine definitely manifests about my loved ones getting hurt too - I worry a lot about hurting people. i.e. contracting something in a hospital and spreading it to friends or boyfriends, getting the kids I volunteer with sick, etc. I am going to start going back to counseling and I will consider getting back onto meds. I just hate leaving the hospital worried whether my patient was ok in my hands, or if I got blood on my hand without knowing it and touched my eye, etc. and I will in turn hurt others. I love nursing so much, I just don't ever want these thoughts to take over my life! Thanks for all your help

Hello I am wondering if I can have some insight or advice. I'm in my last year of nursing school and a few years back i was diagnosed with ocd. Tends to be more on the obsessive side, I.e. Did that patients blood get in my eye, did I contract hiv, did I hurt someone? i really think I'll be a great nurse, but my ocd got better for awhile on meds but I tried hard to wein off. Is there anyone else that has this and has similar worries? What are your coping mechanisms?

Hi all I am new to this site but am curious about something. i currently work in a school for children with severe disabilities. I am a nursing student with an education minor and am both assisting the teacher as well as nurses. We have a student who receives continuous feelings through a j-tube but will sometimes get vented through her j tube through a syringe. I was watching the nurse vent the child through the g tube and there were some bubbles and some clear liquid that was pulled into the syringe. as she removed the syringe, some of the fluid splashed into my eye, a small amount. I have OCD and tend to become very paranoid about HIV etc...has this happened to anyone else? I believe the fluid would only be stomach fluid/saliva she had swallowed which would not contain anything terribly scary but I am just curious whether this happens sometimes and is no big deal.