Fear of going on a murderous rampage, involving stabbing or cutting.Aggressive obsessions affect individuals of all ages, including adults, adolescents, and children. Individuals with violent obsessions may fear becoming serial killers or deliberately hurting someone they love.
Fear of Harming or Killing OthersĪggressive obsessions often focus on violent, murderous (stabbing, shooting, choking, poisoning), or criminal (arson, bank robberies) acts and involve graphic mental images of blood, injury, and death. Aggressive obsessions involving suicide and self-harm will be addressed in a subsequent post. This post will focus on aggressive obsessions that involve the fear of harming or killing other people. In other cases, aggressive obsessions are directed at the self, such as when individuals experience unwanted, intrusive, and recurrent thoughts about hurting or killing themselves (suicide obsessions). These symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) involve the fear of harming or killing other people.
Harm obsessions, violent obsessions, morbid obsessions…the list goes on… Aggressive obsessions involve the fear of intentionally harming or killing others.Aggressive obsessions go by many names.
