[Being late] [Advice pls] Hi! :) Well, it's my first time talking here but I need some advices on some issue. Well, I don't have OCD but I'm very anxious and manifest some of the anxiety in some obsessive characteristics (I'm in therapy btw), but the thing is that I have symptoms pretty similar to Contamination OCD and it's making things hard. I usually am very impuntual but now it's increasing and it's affecting hugely my responsibilities. Could be part that I wash my hands a lot and take too much time washing and cleaning my teeth, but also maybe other stuff influences as well. So, I'm asking please for some tips or advice with it since I feel the problem is bigger than other people face and those advices helps, but not as enough as the complicated that I am right now. Everything will be welcome, thanks :)

OMG! It's exactly the same that happens to me, I can be up too many hours before what I need but still arriving soo late

I am always running late getting myself out the door ? I hate it when people say you should get up earlier (yeah thanks I never thought of that!) I wake up 2 hours before I leave for work and still make it there by the skin of my teeth everyday, and if I’m washing my hair I leave 3 hours to get ready, I’m better than I used to be but it’s always a struggle

Hello, I have contamination OCD as well mostly surrounding germs. I can relate to you because before I had full OCD I was a more cautious and cleanly person than most however it didn't get in the way of my daily life. When OCD took over it rapidly become uncontrollable. I'm still trying to find the line of what is clean enough and accepting the idea that germs will be on me and I can't continue to clean in the way I do. I've been trying just to get back to the cleaning that I used to do but unfortunately OCD doesn't let me see a clear line so I'm basically having to learn a completely new way of dealing with germs and hygiene habits. You're not alone and I think it's so great you are seeking help early! From my own experience I can say as obsessive thoughts about contamination increase it really takes over because you can't ever really have every trace of germs gone and OCD starts imagining and noticing every single minute amount of germs or every possible way however unlikely a contaminant may or may not be in the environment. It's difficult because our entire lives we are told to wash our hands and be clean but OCD just takes it to a whole other level that makes functioning really difficult. You are doing great already noticing how it's becoming obsessive and interfering in other areas of your life. I would say if you start having what if thoughts that maybe you didn't clean enough, or maybe you didn't get all the germs off of your hands try to ignore them unless you have a clear memory that you didn't wash something for example. Once you go back and clean again these thoughts will multiply. I'd be happy to chat more and offer any support!

Thanks! I will have that on mind :)