i’m going through a huge spike in ocd and my psychologist who is specifically trained to treat ocd patients reminded me that this distinction between “real” fear and “ocd” fear is meaningless he told me an example of a psychotic patient who was was watching another psychotic patient in the hospital with him hallucinate that monsters were attacking him and said that “his monsters were fake but the dragons that were attacking me were real” ultimately it doesn’t matter if our fear is corroborated by the “real” world — the anxiety is all the same and if we are perceiving it in our minds it is real