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Germs don't attach to fabrics eg hair strands for long. Most of them die straight away. It's warm clammy places they like. Eg palm of the hands etc. And I was drunk and forced myself to be sick down the toilet the other day to get the alcohol up so I wouldn't feel sick when sober, and my hair got all down the toilet and my fingers touched the toilet seat and my hands went down the toilet bowl, I was an absolute mess but I didn't catch anything. I wouldn't worry xx
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Thanks a lot... its really helpful.. but i feel i get these hallucinations... is it really possible, m standing... putting paper on toilet seat, my hairs almost tied up.. and suddenly i felt what if my hairs got touched somewhere in the toilet...
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But even if you did it wouldn't matter. That's what you've got to remember. I had a tummy bug a few months ago and my mum didn't catch it. She heald my hair out of my sick, she heald my hand, she didn't clean the toilet often, but she didn't catch it. And it was definitely a bug cause I know the person I caught it off of. And I know how I caught it. Her daughter chewed on a tube of teaving gel and I took it off her and put it back in the cupboard, and then I ate something about half an hour later without using hand gel. Her daughter had had a sickness bug and still had it. So yeah, the only thing you should wash is your hands before eating xx
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I am not scared of diseases, just gross feeling..
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Well I'm not sure really what to say other than it is just a feeling, and you aren't gross at all and niether is many objects around you. There is more germs in a womans hand bag than in the toilet
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Thanks.. Did you take shower right away? or next day as usual?
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Well as soon as I got in I used hand gel and had a wash but there's no preventing illness, if you're ganna get it you're ganna get it. Unfortunately most bugs are air born xx
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I feel you harshi. Even with no disease public toilet are my major trigger and it makes me sooooo anxious
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Lark, how do u deal with it then? any effective solution?
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Then Cut or Make Sure you Tied your Hair Well.. ;)
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- 21w
I'm keeping it light hearted but I really desperately need some help. Just to preface this is very tmi. I thought it was just gonna be a quick bathroom stuff. No! That would be silly of course, so number two decided to screw things up ROYALLY. And please bear with me because I am coping with humour 😭😭. So I went, but sometimes, tmi, I struggle to.... Get it all. Out. If you know what I mean. Which is pretty awful to the point I'm like genuinely praying. Because you can't clean up properly if you're not done. So I'm in the bathroom, trying, for over half an hour. And I finally give up pretty much and try and clean up. Oh no, that was a huge mistake. But what else could I do? It was so messy that I wanted to just get in the shower and be done with it. Onto the things I'm worrying about I guess. On the tp (tmi, I'm WARNING 😭😭) it was.... Messy, and there were very loose specks on the tp. Which is an issue, because I used wet wipes which needs to be binned and not flushed, so I have to carry the tp-wipe combo over to the bin, which means carrying it over where my legs are, and thus where my clothes also are. I hate it. I'm now paranoid specks fell into my underwear! Great! Love it. I'm also paranoid specks or just #2 in general went on my hand. And, believe me, with the state of things, it was POSSIBLE. So when I'm finally done and wash my hands, of course that isn't going to feel like enough. I have really short nails, so short they're painful, and I'm always terrified stuff gets under them. So, I use a nail brush while washing my hands. I also filed them down (which HURT) because I'm convinced that could get rid of anything underneath them. But it still doesn't feel enough. Because I have loose skin and hangnails around my nails, and I'm paranoid as well that stuff gets under dry skin. Not to mention my hands are so dry from washing that they're cracked and flaky and they peel, so I am worried that #2 or dirt gets under the flakes of skin. I know it sounds stupid, but I am so scared. Usually it feels irrational but it was such a state that I'm convinced there must be a speck of it on me somewhere. On my hands. And I'm terrified. I know I need to accept uncertainty but I'm struggling right now.
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- 15w
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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- 13w
I’m so scared. Part of me feels ok and part of me feels like I need to clean everything off. Basically my sweater had a stain on it from food it was newly washed but I decided to throw it in the wash again. While throwing it in the laundry basket I noticed a specific type of clothing that scares me. I quickly put the sweater on top of the used laundry and left. My phone was in the living room and I’m pretty constantly scared it will get contaminated by laundry I’m not sure why but that fear started randomly. Anyway I had to walk past the living room to wash my hands in the kitchen because someone had to use the bathroom badly and was waiting for me to just throw my laundry in to go to the bathroom. Anyway I’m scared I went near my phone or contaminated it with my hands. I can’t remember the details fully either but I just remember walking straight to the kitchen but I don’t know. I’m really scared and I want to clean everything like my phone and everything it was near. The thing is my fear is real because used laundry is so gross. What do I do? When throwing clean laundry in a basket should you wash your hands? Do most people? Even if the article of clothing isn’t dirty? Because maybe my hands accidentally went near the actual gross laundry I don’t know
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