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i used to wear gloves too. i often wish i still did as they are fashionable and keep you safe. but we are expected to conform. as for germs on paper, they dont live long there so don’t worry.
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- 6y
I have this too. My contamination ocd is solely centred on all kind of warts for example worrying I’m going to get infected with the wart Hpv virus if I touch door handles in public or touch other people and also things like plantar warts/veruccas because these things are genuinely contagious so it’s hard to stop these ocd obsessive thoughts when they actually are contagious :( I hate the idea of all these contagious virus’ being all over my house and in public places!
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- 6y
i have this too. i calmed myself down by educating myself on how delicate these things actually are in the environment.
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i was forced to be exposed working in a retail environment. eventually you just have to trust doctors when they tell you that these things arent super contagious. you’ll get better. i was really bad before and im mostly ok now.
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Did it work well enough that it made it better? I have tried this and I kind of feel like avoidance is my only working strategy... and as I’m sure you know ... that’s not a real strategy
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I’m a teacher and I have only just managed to stop wearing gloves when I mark their books (can only do this if I wash my hands a few times afterwards so I’m not sure if it’s actually progress)
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i know exactly how you feel. yes, it did get better. i sometimes still count off before touching or eating something bc most viruses die in 14 or so seconds. but i am able to live a mostly normal life, use the toilet at work, and let people eat in my house using my utensils. i can also eat at my mother’s and friends’ houses, although i have a little bit of anxiety about it at the time. i just try to keep track of what’s going into my mouth, dont eat with my hands, and trust that virologists are probably not lying
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- 6y
I feel the same! I have cleaned my poor carpets so often ? Any ideas what sort of therapy might help?
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- 6y
I’ve had ERP therapy and that didn’t help me really! I think knowing that these virus’ are contagious doesn’t help trying to get rid of the obsessive thoughts because we can’t just say ‘my ocd is making me think these are contagious things’ etc. Wish I knew what could help!
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- 6y
the only thing that helped me was accepting that viruses survive very poorly outside the body.
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- 6y
That’s exactly how I feel, the one time I tried therapy it stressed me out so much I couldn’t carry on I’m desperate to make a change but I don’t know how to go about it I seem to be anxious even when I know it’s unlikely
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- 25w
Where do I begin with this…….. so my OCD has been around since childhood and has had many themes over the years. I only realised I have it just over 2 years ago. I’ve tried many things to help it not be such a monster and thought I had a good grip on it for a length of time until now! Some of my strategies have been acceptance, change of perception of thoughts and sometimes on hard days just telling myself that no matter what, I have to be brave and go out and live life. In the last few months I’ve developed none OCD related anxiety as well and so have been looking at ways to help with that. Sunday morning I was just casually scrolling TikTok and a video only about 30 seconds long or so comes up, seemingly a therapist of some kind, straight away the video began something like “you cannot replace a thought with another thought” along the lines of “you can’t THINK your way out anxiety” I don’t know the full context of the video it wasn’t long enough, I don’t know who the therapist was I didn’t look but now purely because of that one sentence my OCD has gripped onto it so badly and is trying to tear down some of my strategies because I have used changing my thought patterns a lot to help me, self compassion etc but now because of that video I’m struggling! I’m not looking for answers but I am just really upset and it feels like I’m in an impossible grip of OCD again
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- 17w
so i was on instagram and it came up with other signs of ocd then someone commented this doesn’t mean you have ocd now im stressed that its not ocd background - i had so-ocd for a few years then got treatment for it but am now on the waiting list for further treatment for other stuff but i dont have another theme which makes me feel like its not ocd my day to day life consists of touching the door handle every time you go past it or someone will die, and inability to send emails without re reading loads of times and getting other people to check because im scared i wrote something bad but the what if it’s not ocd thought is triggering me now and i don’t know what do
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- 16w
I feel like my job triggers a lot of how im feeling. Im now a manager and the stress of it really causes my thoughts to convince me that I am worthless and all of the customers and my staff hate me
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