Rabies OCD confirmation in my head
Hi. This is my first time posting on this sub. For the past couple days i have had SEVERE rabies intrusive thoughts. A few days ago, I brushed past a bush and convinced myself a bat bit me when there was no bite mark and clearly no bat. Then, I went out for July 4th. We had to walk through the forest (with a marked path) to get through a clearing to watch the fireworks. There was hundreds of people around, I saw no bat and heard no bat. I woke up to a few spots on my calf, two of which looked like a potential bat bite. There’s a few rows of two bites. I KNOW I didn’t see or hear a bat. No one mentioned a bat.
I was practicing therapeutic techniques and trying to forget about the whole thing, and then I woke up this morning with flu-like symptoms like diarrhea and a sore throat. My brain keeps trying to convince me that rabies has set in… I have no idea what to do. This is the first time I’ve been anxious like this.
(I have DXed anxiety, but not OCD. I suspect it). I’m just so sick of feeling like this. I know a bat didn’t bite me… But my brain is telling me what if it did? what if you just forgot? I feel miserable!!!!!!