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I'm so sorry. I feel you! I once stepped in what was actually a large amount of somone else's period blood in a public restroom! I threw out my shoes...haha... I was terrified and it wrecked me for a while but I got through it and you will too. ❤
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That would kill me… just the thought of it I’d awful. I don’t know how to feel okay with it.. I’m gonna get rid of it and clean that spot on the floor but I’m scared I stepped on it and tracked the germs around the floor already. Should I also throw my slippers out?
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@Anonymous I wouldn't know better than you. I think you will be okay. I think about statistics a lot. What are the odds the blood is yours? Pretty high given the circumstances. In the unlikely case that it isn't yours, what are the odds that the persons whose blood it is has a blood borne illnesses? Unlikely In the Unlikely event they did have an illness, what are the chances you'd get it? Even less. This is how I comfort myself
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@Ocd life I disagree
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@Ocd life That's fine that you believe that.
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@Ocd life If something so simple and easy gives me one time comfort I'm fine with it. I know what my compulsions are and I know what compulsions feel like. Please don't try to tell me you know me better. Maybe for you it would be a compulsion.
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@Ocd life It is. But sometimes the fear is way too scary to go on without at least one compulsion. Maybe with time over the course of recovery it’ll be possible to go without that reassurance/ruminating. This particular instance for me was so hard I did a physical compulsion, got reassurance from two loved ones, and still don’t feel completely okay about it. For me, doing this mental analysis compulsion and only that compulsion would be such a win. I’m definitely far from that point though :(
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@Anonymous Plus when your thinking is so distorted even though it’s technically reassurance I feel like it’s kind of necessary to get a reality check. Especially with contamination ocd. Any average joe can logically realize something like say magical thinking isn’t possible (I struggled with that type of ocd before as a child and even at the time knew it wasn’t logical). But with contamination ocd, with fears of germs and illness, if you’re not a healthcare professional or someone who has studied the science of these things it’s so hard to know what’s real or not. Am I wrong? Is it possible to overcome contamination fears without any reality checks or reassurance at all? I’m genuinely asking lol cause I don’t know.
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@Anonymous I agree! Contamination ocd is very different to some of the more thought based ones. I know they say there's no difference but I've experienced both and I definitely think the reality check and even getting confirmation from medical professionals is important sometimes. I mean we live in the real world, not a bubble. There are legitimate threats our there.
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Oh yea bloodborn illness is not easy to transmitted even with contact with blood. I still freak out but I tell myself this a lot.
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Thanks this helped. It’s so hard cause my ocd wants the chances to be completely 0 not just unlikely but I guess that’s just what I have to learn to be okay with
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@Anonymous Yea somone once told me you can't live expecting perfect odds.
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@compulsion5000 Which is so scary when it comes to things like deadly diseases. It feels so hard to accept. Like am I really supposed to just be ok with the fact that there’s not a 0% chance of something that awful happening? Ugh! Lol
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@Anonymous Believe me I feel you. I went through a phase believing my son would get rabbies... the whole "I has to be zero!" Thing hit me hard but the truth is, if the risk of danger has to be zero then we shouldn't ever drive cars or do a lot of things necessary to get the most out of life.
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*it gas to be zero (not I lol)
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- 21w
This is a long one lol but basically, a couple of weeks ago I went to the toilet (#2, sorry for the tmi). Let's just say it was messy. I remember that a speck of.. #2.. Fell off the piece of toilet paper. This was probably the worst thing that could ever happen. I can't remember clearly but I'm pretty sure my jeans were on the floor underneath near where the speck could have fallen. There was also a towel. I don't know exactly where it fell as it was so small, but I made sure both the towel and the jeans went in the laundry basket and I cleaned the floor near there. Fast forward to like the next day. My mum does most of the laundry, so she will have picked up all the towels and clothes from the laundry basket and taken them to the wash. The problem is the speck. I don't know where it went but if it was on the towel and she picked it up.... Thus, contaminated mum. And she also puts clothes away that are dry. I remember that day she put my hoodie in my wardrobe, and I haven't worn it since because I feel it is contaminated. I haven't worn the clothes that have touched the hoodie. This leaves me with not a lot of clothes. And today I finally snapped and picked up a sweatshirt that had maybe touched the hoodie. And now I'm just sat here spiralling, wearing it. What if it touched the speck? What if the speck touched my mum and then touched the hoodie which then touched the sweatshirt I'm wearing? Please I'm so scared.
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I have been getting reassurance from someone on here… I know this is not what we should be doing… but I have a fear that the bad guy is going to get me and that things I do will lead to that… I think I misread what he/she was saying but I’m too triggered to look back and see, but I thought the message said “I talked to the bad guy” and I am freaking out on my bathroom floor… I thought about it and what that looked like and now I feel like I cleave into the bad guy…. Someone please help
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sorry if im putting to much detail in here I can take it down if it is too much and makes people uncomfy. Last night was watching some ex*pl*cit content while lying on the rug in the room in my house I spend most of my time and where my family usually goes into and it caused a physical reaction. I went to the bathroom to clean up and then sprayed the shower done and put bleach on the floor but I wiped the floor with a towel to kinda clean it but idk if I put enough bleach to clean it and if I got it in the areas that mattered and I sprayed Lysol on the bathroom counter to make sure no germs of my earlier reaction got any where but I ran out of Lysol after spraying everything but I made sure to spray the rug with some Lysol before I ran out but idk if I got everything I mean I focused on the rug but I didn’t spray all of it and I didn’t spray all the stuff that was in the room. And to make things worse after my reaction earlier I put my devices and charger on the floor of my room before washing my hands or my devices so I had to clean the floor in my room I used bleach but I didn’t put it everywhere on the floor which makes me anxious and idk if I cleaned my devices or charger well enough and I’m scared they are still infected. But back to the rug i sprayed it down with odoban it says disinfectant on it but I think it’s only for hard surfaces it disinfects but I still sprayed it around on the rug but I don’t know if it actually disinfected anything. And of course to make matters worse my baby cousins toys were in the room so I sprayed them with what little Lysol I had left but idk if I cleaned it well enough but I already put them with their other toys so idk what to do. After I thought I cleaned everything I put my devices on my mattress I don’t have my blankets on my mattress yet cause I washed them like a week or 2 ago and they are just laying on my bed but not put on my mattress so I’m scared my mattress if infected since I’m laying on my mattress with my feet on my chair and my devices are on my mattress. And idk I don’t want people getting those bad germs in them and I,worry about this a lot and Ik a lot of people will say that it isn’t that huge of a deal and I want to,believe them and it helps but my mind is always telling me that even if that’s true I have a responsibility to make sure everything is clean so people don’t get hurt and it doesn’t help that I’ve been so,itchy and idk why and my little brother is also itchy idk if it’s because I don’t clean well enough and it’s my germs or not but I’m tired do I need,to clean my mattress and covers again and reclean the rug I think I do but I’m trying to go against that thinking but it’s hard because I feel like a bad persons. And today I’m scared to leave my room i feel like I’m filthy and that the rug in the other room is contaminated and it doesn’t help I need to go to the doctor today when I’m feeling like anyone I’m around im infecting
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