You believe you have no choice but to act out of the compulsion. In recovered thinking there s a great range of options. The notion that all those other people driving on the freeway are thinking of you is inflated. They aren t thinking about you. They re thinking about themselves.
People have a whole range of feelings.
A few people may dislike you intensely. Some people may like you, some may like you a lot. You might occupy a big place in someone s life. But you might not. Recovery has a lot to do with vision with changing how you see your position in the world, and how you perceive the world itself.