I have OCD, GAD, and Depression

Something I'm noticing lately is that things I *imagined* have been at the focus of a lot of my OCD thoughts.

For example, I passed close by a person in a store, so I checked behind me to make sure they were ok, but I imagined that I knocked them down and that fear and feeling started feeling real. Some logical part of me *knows* I didn't knock anyone over, but imagining it at that moment of time made it feel real.

It's become such an issue that I've been wondering if my daydreaming is affecting it. I daydream a *ton.* 

I am basically never bored because I always have some crazy fantasy to play out in my head, and it's always engrossing and distracting due to how strong my imagination is.

So... I've been wondering if my imagination is the problem.

Maybe my imagination is *so* strong that my anxiety uses it to fuel the OCD fire.

Maybe if I had a shitty imagination, it would be much easier to look at that thought and say "oh my god, I definitely didn't knock anybody over, because I *definitely* only imagined it, it's very clearly just a thought."

Conversely, I have trouble with a video game series I've been on-and-off with for a long time now, Monster Hunter.

I absolutely love it because of the monsters and the themes of living in harmony with nature, but sometimes it really hurts because these big, scary monsters start acting like wounded animals towards the end of the fights. Limping away, making sad noises, and so on.

I've never had such a problem with a game series before. I've never felt such absolute love and genuine guilt from a video game before this.

So, again, it got me to thinking. In these moments, or maybe at all times, should I view these games as **just games**?

I love getting engrossed in things, but instead of thinking about how this particular monster lives in its ecosystem and eats and hunts, should I *only* think of it as what it actually is - a programmed model in a simulation? 

I just want to make things easier for myself and I'm not quite sure how.