Is this OCD?

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A strong fear that you will like...Say for example...Hurt your fingers or harm them in a certain way? And you just keep getting disturbing thoughts and wondering what it would be like if you actually did something to your fingers even though you don't really want to and it gives you a lot of anxiety and panic attacks over it. If not then what is it from? Just curious.

It could be. OCD sufferers feel like they're going to do something bad even though they don't want to.

Do you ever feel like if you don't do a certain thing it will cause you to hurt your fingers? Thinking something bad will happen unless you do a certain thing is another symptom of OCD.

There was a programme on British tv about the Maudsley psychiatric hospital and the director, Dr Martin Baggaley, said that these types of 'intrusive thoughts' are part of normal experience - in fact he said he had them himself. When driving to work he sometimes has to stop at a crossing to let young school children cross and said he often had the desire to put his foot down and run them over

That said, obsessional disorders have features that are similar - but much more 'gripping' - but generally, a lot of people have them and are happy in the knowledge that they will never act on them

I mean I'm not suicidal or wanting to kill myself, but like every since I was a young child even as young as six years old. I always had those constant fears about hurting my fingers or breaking them some how. Even though I never have seriously damaged them before. When I got older I started having thoughts that if I didn't for example touch or look at something a few times that I would hurt them though. Sometimes it'll just be random when I start getting that fear. It could even appear in my dreams and then I wake up with anxiety or sometimes have panic attacks.

I know I don't have that problem where you have to like wash your hands several times. I also don't like the number 13. Like the year 2013 or the day of the month of the 13th. I'm always repeatedly looking at the clock too especially when I'm sleeping, sending a text or watching videos online that counts up how long the video has been going. Like multiple times I do these things. Even if I were to post something online I wouldn't want it where it would say that it was posted on the 13th or something. I would want it to be on an even number or right on the first of the month or the first of the year. I get particular about a lot of things.

It defiantly sounds like it could be OCD.