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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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Sorry if this is tmi. In advance, I know some germs are fine - I'm all for that, and it definitely does ease some contamination anxiety. But I have lots of anxiety surrounding going to the bathroom, specifically number two. Again I'm so sorry if this is tmi. I went yesterday, and obviously my hands were contaminated because well, they are when you go to the bathroom. But also because I accidentally brushed the back of my hand against myself. When you're done in the bathroom you obviously put underwear back on, and trousers or whatever, but I wash my hands before touching my trousers but not underwear. So I do that bit before I wash my hands, but my hand, the very contaminated part, touched like a bit of my skin at my waist. At the time, I brushed it off, thinking that my trousers will cover that anyway for the time being. But then today, I wore leggings that are kind of small on me and they weren't as high waisted. And then I got in my bed, and had a t-shirt on, and probably touched so many things. I changed my t-shirt, meaning it touched my hair as I took it off. So now I'm paranoid I have poop particles all over me. I'm convinced I need to have a full shower again and wash my hair. I'm okay with having a shower, but I barely have enough energy for that let alone washing my hair too. I don't shower every day, so with my schedule, I'm not due to have one until tonight. I just want to be able to get up, get dressed, and go about my day. But how do I do that when my bed feels contaminated and I feel like I need to change the bedsheets. How do I cope when it feels like poop particles are in my HAIR. And that could totally be possible. I know some germs are fine. But I just don't know what to do.
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