[InitialLastName]

> 5. Causing harm to other people, particularly when driving

I actually think this is a healthy thing to be a little obsessively worried about. Drivers are generally too blasé about the damage they can cause to other humans through their actions.

Like, most people should be worried about that enough that they drive less often because of it.

[DanBC]

Please don't trivialse a disabling condition by saying "sure, but everyone does that".

All you've done here is shown that you have fialed to listen to and understand the parent poster.

They're not describing the perfectly normal response of "I'm in two tons of metal hurtling down the road I better be careful".

They're describing the pathological anxiety response. That gentle rumbling noise? That's a dead child trapped in the wheel arch, and I ran over them at that last junction. The air con is working a bit harder? That's because I ran over someone and that accident damaged the aircon. That car behind me, that everyone else says is perfectly normal? They're trying to get my attention to tell me about the cyclist I just killed.

[meguest]

It's not healthy. For some people their OCD is so bad that they cannot pass a cyclist or pedestrian, regardless of how safe or textbook the manoeuvre, without having deep anxiety that they might have hit them.

[InitialLastName]

Is it healthy for a cyclist or pedestrian to have a deep anxiety that any given driver passing them is going to hit them? Because that bit happens pretty frequently.

You and sibling are right that such a horrific illness shouldn't be trivialized, but I get really tired of people pretending that driving a car should be something you don't feel a little nervous doing.