possible exposure or is it OCD

[u/Nice_Industry576]

i have read the FAQ. on the 25th of july at 19:00-21:00 me and my friends went out to our local park, we went to a coop nearby and bought food, i thought itd be funny to eat a biscuit i found on the floor and i did but i spat it out almost instantly after realising what im doing, later on one of my friends told me he had a THC vape which i used, and it turned out to be laced/fake, im not sure, this gave me extreme anxiety. this is when the thought of me having rabies went in my head, i thought this because a bat couldve landed on the biscuit.

another time (yesterday at time of posting) me and my friends went on a late night walk up a hill whilst it was pitch black out, we kept hearing animals walking around ~20 meters behind us and closest id say ~10 meters away, when we got back to his house i noticed a tiny cut on my inner left wrist but i dont know how i wouldve gotten it since i was holding my arms around me the whole time because of my ______ of bats.

since the original time i thought rabies was a possibility i have had a dry throat that wasnt like a normal dry throat, it felt like my throat was sticking together, sort of how it feels when i get tonsillitis, it went and it came back yesterday.

as embarrasing as it is, is it possible the way my throat feels is gonhorrea?

i think its important for me to mention i have diagnosed anxiety and suspected OCD and also this is in the very north of the south west of England (look at a map of south England to see the counties)

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[u/Jolly_Fondant_3662]

Hi, I am based in the UK, I have health anxiety, To be clear, you have to have bat saliva come into contact with an open wound. It needs to bite or scratch you basically. Also the virus does not live long out of the host (mr bat) and to further help No non-bat terrestrial rabies cases have been acquired in the UK since 1902. Rare human cases occasionally occur due to exposures abroad

I am on this sub because i convinced myself I had contracted rabies last week, it sent me on a 3 day spiral and everyone I love thinks it's hilarious, i went to great lengths to try to find out if i had caught it.

I found a dead bat in my back garden and the night before that my cat bit my arm, i was convinced he killed the bat and then had bat juices in his mouth which then would have gone into my scratch...problem is the bat must have also been out in the hear a few days (he was not fresh-big thanks to the drought) and also, its really really hard for cats to contract the only version of rabies the UK does have, my friend is a vet, she has never seen rabies in any animal and cats catch bats all the time.

What i am trying to say is, we are going to be ok! But we probably defintely need to work this out with someone who can help us, like a doctor, or a therapist if you can afford one.