Impulse phobias, the obsessive fear of inadvertently hurting

Axelle* constantly has aggressive images that come to mind. “It’s kind of an almost instant film that takes place in the first person. At first it is identical to the real thing, then it changes to represent a horrible act that I would be committing. Sometimes it’s a word that rings in my head: “You might do this”, or “Imagine if you did that”, explains the 29-year-old computer engineer.