Hit-and-run OCD and obsessing about legal outcomes
Ever since I was in high school and got my driver's license, I have obsessed occasionally about whether I hit someone or not. The severity of my obsession would force me to get back in the car once I had already arrived home, return to the site where I thought I might have hit somebody, and check.
Recently I just started experiencing something different. Not only do I obsess about whether I hit someone or not, but I obsess about whether I would be charged criminally or not, even if it was a complete accident. Does anyone else relate?
Like, my obsession will have very little to do with whether I hit them, and everything to do with whether I would be charged. Then I will go and scour the web, ask Chat GPT if I would be charged criminally for something that never happened.