Trigger warning yet again, I posted this a few days ago but noone replied! Does anyone else worry they've put bleach in their drinks etc, or that you've swallowed glass by accident and you start retracing your steps etc? Or anything like this? Is this contamination ocd?

That's so good that it stopped! Forcing myself to drink water I fear that bleach is in, helps a bit. I even forced myself to put my drink right beside tge bleach whilst having a bath, and then forced myself to drink it afterwards. I was very scared that I was ganna die but I thought to myself, if there was any bleach in this it would burn my mouth severely

Wow right next to the bleach bottle!? Good for you!!! That's so awesome you pushed yourself that much!!

Yes! I've worried that I put poison or pills got into my drink. I haven't personally thought of glass but that makes sense. The poison or bleach or anything caustic is definitely contamination OCD. The glass probably falls in that category or just catastrophic thinking.

I’ve had something similar but it’s that a drink might have alcohol in it. I’ll have my husband taste it to reassure ??‍♀️

You know I use to get so paranoid if I didn’t pour a drink myself that maybe someone was gonna poison me and I’d even get worried and smell the drink and think it smelled off when it was totally fine

That's interesting about thinking there were pill remnants in the water! With my contamination type I am constantly thinking there might be the smallest amount of something. Especially if something contaminated and also greasy or sticky gets into my mouth I can't just brush my teeth and feel like it's gone. I have to wash my mouth out and get a new toothbrush because I feel like it's still on the toothbrush. I'm actually just sort of realizing this might be overkill. It feels like it makes sense even if it's exhausting and no one else seems to do it! I hate the thoughts of what if this happened well I guess I should protect against it just in case!

That's a good exposure making yourself drink it even if you think it's contaminated! I eventually just said I have no recollection of any poison actually being in my drink it's really unrealistic I'll just have to risk it and eventually it stopped!

Thank you guys! If poison was in our house I'd worry about that too. But the most poisonous thing in the house is bleach.. I worry about the alcohol thing too! If I drink the night before, I worry that I poured alcohol into the big coke bottle and if my niece or nephew ask to try it I won't let them just in case. And I also get the pill one thinking of it! I wash my meds down with bottled drinks most of the time, and I worry that because I washed my pills down with it, that somehow the remenences of the pills got into the drink, so again, if my niece and nephew ask to drink it, I say no. I force myself to drink stuff even if I think it is contaminated. But I never let anyone else drink it. I had to pour my nephew a glass of milk a while ago and I worried I'd put pills in it which was stupid, and I worried all night that he was ganna die. And I also had the poison one. Worried family members put poison in my food to kill me because I felt like they hated me.

I totally understand where you're coming from. I hate the feeling of something sticky on my teeth too. I usually get it off with my tongue, even if it's something like toffee. I will pull with my tongue to get it off. It makes my tongue ache really bad cause I put a lot of strain on it. Xx

Thank you xx