- Username
- Mike_Playz
- Date posted
- 5y ago
If it was lead paint that would have been such a small exposure to it that there couldn’t possibly be any effects. Lead paint also has not been used for a very long time so if it’s been painted anytime in the past dozen or so years there’s no need to worry.
Im a chemist that literally works with machines that can test how much lead is im stuff. So I could answer all your questions about lead. But I dont want to reassure you that there probably is no lead and even if there was its so little it doesnt matter. It sounds like you have contamination fears about chemicals in the environment. Is it just lead? Either way the fact you posting this question on ocd app suggests this is more ocd concern then a concern that requires this much concern. Are you being treated for ocd?
Oh well in that case I think you might want to get some help on this issue. Are you having other concerns about contamination?
Did you ask about lead paint a week or so ago?
Yeah I realised that was irrational but I'm not sure about this.
No I didn't even tell my parents yet.
I definitely understand your thoughts. I have contamination OCD. My therapist, in situations like this, advise me me to talk to a credible expert, so I can stop the research spiral. I love that you accidentally found one here. For me, when I worry about a contaminant that may have involved ingestion, I call poison control. I call once, I get an answer, and then I sit with the OCD monster until it goes away.
I fear lead to and we found a house that we would love to buy but it is located a half mile from a huge battery recycling plant with a lead smelter. It is known as an environmentally friendly plant with emissions in the .03 ug/m3 3 month average ambient lead rate but I fear that it is unsafe to live next to it with my four kids
POCD TW: HELP Haven’t been on this app in a bit because I’ve been doing pretty well! But I had a pretty bad day. I work with children. And my ocd has been targeting one child mostly. (I hope it’s ocd) Today, while hanging out with her she was joking around with me and she was trying to steal a baseball bat out of my hand. She put it between her legs. I started to lose grip of it, so I switched my hand to get a better grip and I pulled it and took it from her, and it moved upward and she instantly said “ouch that hurt” and I think I accidentally hit her in an in appropriate area. I feel really bad. And I’m afraid that she’ll tell her parents I did it or something. My OCD is telling me I did it on purpose but I know I didn’t. Ugh. I was doing SO well before this. But it feels like I’ve moved 10 steps back.
A few years ago I made the mistake of talking about my real event ocd with my little sister, the one I believe I hurt in the past. She said she doesn't remember what happened, and looked freaked out. She didnt wanna talk about it at all. Now it's been two years and I wanna bring it up again but I'm afraid it'll go the same as it did before. The only way I can see around this is by going to my mom again. She talked to my sister when it all went down because I was crying over how she'll never love me again, but she talked to her alone. Idk about what. I need to know. I need to know if I hurt her or not but she doesnt remember what happened and I read about these child on child sexual assault victims who remember when they're older and I'm afraid that's the case. Shes only 15 now and I'm 18, so idk.
i was just looking in the fridge and there was some raw meat in a container but i didn’t know that it was meat so i opened the container to check what it was. and i don’t know if it was blood or if they were marinating it but a little bit of it got on my fingers and i wiped my hand on my clothes without thinking and then i just rinsed my hand in the sink, and thought it would be fine cause i only touched the container and i also wasn’t really sure if it was meat or not yet because i didn’t get a good look at it and i just kept doing what i was doing, but then i kept thinking about it and started realizing it wasn’t fine and went to wash my hands with soap and i didn’t know if i needed to change my clothes or not so i thought it was fine too and laid in my bed and stuff and now i realized that i should’ve changed my clothes and i did but now the bacteria could be on my bed and other places and i don’t remember everywhere i touched and i can’t think straight and im too scared to leave my room and wash everything in case of spreading it more and my dad and brother are drinking so they’re not gonna listen to me if i said to wipe everything out there and im just freaking out. i feel horrible for being so careless and i’m really scared that my pets and dad and brother will get sick because of me
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