- Date posted
- 3y
Is this an intrusive thought?
Hi! I have contamination OCD. It’s fascinating to me how people with OCD have such a hard time being rational with their own thoughts and fears but can be so reasonable when it comes to other people’s OCD thoughts. So since I am having a hard time distinguishing reality and fantasy, I thought I should share my newest OCD thought and have you try and make me look at it in more rational way. Since my mom stayed with us for a month I started obsessing that she put something in the dryer (a phone, a battery, or something else toxic) that - with the extreme heat - melted or exploded and contaminated my dryer. Now, weeks after she left, I still have the feeling that every time I dry my clothes I am getting contaminated and that they are making me and my baby sick. It’s bad to the point I don’t want to wake up in the morning because I feel so depressed. Imagining the worst case scenario in which my mom is a liar - would never tell me she put something else other than clothes in the dryer - and in which she’s extremely careless and doesn’t look inside pockets etc and in which she actually put something in there. What are the odds that me and my family are actually getting sick from using the dryer? Thank you all! 💚