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I also have contamination ocd and I am petrified of health professionals because I’m so scared I’ll catch something.. why can’t I just accept they know their job
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@jody1908 I’m a health care professional, I can assure you we’re all obsessive with washing and sanitising hands hunny because we’re all terrified of catching things from patients
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Thank you for your reply. I had 2 nurses who were lovely preforming a check on my cervix following a lengthy miscarriage ? and the one nurse sneezed on the back of her hand and used a tissue she carried on passing things to the other nurse but didn’t change her gloves. Now I’m petrified I caught herpes or something else worse
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Aww sorry to hear that, can imagine how distressing that must have been with contamination ocd, I guess it was a way of doing ERP but if does get too much don’t feel afraid to ask her to change her gloves, we don’t take it personally or take offence. I know sometimes people just forget ppe changes. Sorry to hear about your miscarriage also ?
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I can’t stop googling things.. do you think i cold have contracted something? Part of me thinks wow that’s really bad but then I think most people who think typically wouldn’t have noticed or been worried about it ever since.. I had already explained my ocd and asked her to change because she touched the lamp with the gloves she had on and she did but it was her assistant who sneezed etc and I just think I was in the moment then and didn’t act quick enough. I really do need help I was on medication that didn’t do much, I also saw a private therapist for cbt but when I had the miscarriage it all took a back seat. Thanks for support
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I want to answer you but I’m afraid I’d be reassuring you and we’re not allowed to on here because it encourages ocd, sorry hunny ? but I know exactly what you mean and how you feel! I once was at the doctors and they asked to look down below and I couldn’t let them because I was terrified of being contaminated, so you should be really proud of yourself for being able to let them and dealing with it despite being distressed, it’s good ERP for you in the long run! I’m meant to be on 100mg of Sertraline but I hate how I feel when I take them, I feel really like numb and like I don’t feel anything, I’d rather feel intense happiness and intense sadness in roundabouts than nothing at else. I have private CBT and that seems to be helping, I’ve just gone from weekly sessions to fortnightly now which I’m proud of. You’re more than welcome for the support hunny, and thank you for yours. Nice to be able to talk to someone whose going through similar
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Ok I understand. I had private cbt but I haven’t found it that helpful to be honest so I stopped x
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Yeah some are better with meds, others therapy, some even manage on their own. It’s whatever works best for you. I hope you can find what works for you soon x
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Now I read into words so much I think that by saying you can’t reassure me it means you think I’m at risk. This is also another part of my ocd I stick on words and often over think them
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I also used medication but I didn’t feel they helped and also I needed to come off them because of an ecg test that I had in a yearly review z
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I totally get what you mean about the thinking different to what people mean! No I don’t think you’re at risk at all hunny, it’s just I’ve had comments removed before because i’ve reassured or it’s been seen as I’ve reassured people and I didn’t want my comment removed and it looks like I was ignoring you hahah! So I will say what my therapist would say and what I agree with, if you were at risk of contracting something would the woman have sneezed in the room with you in? Would they have left you untreated for whatever disease you contracted or would they have given you antibiotics or some other medicine to get rid of it? To help you answer the questions and come up with your own answer to whether you have or not. It’s annoying how they trick you into saying the opposite to ocd but in a way makes you realise actually I obviously deep down am still there trying to fight this irrational fear and panic off! What medication was you on if you don’t mind me asking? As I’ve made an appointment for a review as I don’t know whether to try medication too just for my mood because if my moods low I noticed ocd increases but I don’t want medication that’s going to make me feel numb! What do you feel hella?
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I never heard about people with OCD who have messy living conditions. Maybe this is why it took so long to accept my diagnosis. Although I really dont like how OCD is percieved at by the majority of people, I feel like Im weird or something because I dont fit into that stereotype. I understand that a lot of people with OCD have this issue, but why do I feel so different? If anybody else has/had this belief, what helps with feeling more comfortable? Everytime my mom points out my room, and how its messy- Its like I feel so lazy and useless. So then I often plan out everything I was going to do, step by step, always having a reasoning behind everything, because logic always comforts me. When I start tidying up my room, I go full out (Sheets, Laundry, Clorox, Candles, Vaccuming, Then I start going through the guinea pigs cage to rearranging all of their stuff) Yet always somewhere after doing a few things, I start feeling disgusting and almost shameful of myself. 99% of the time I end up laying on my floor sobbing, noting every little thing about my room. How my furiniture doesnt match, how i would rather have solid floor like hardwood or vinyl instead of the carpet, usually things i cant change… and then barely anything gets done in my room. I start to have a meltdown and often dont take care of myself even more afterwards. A piece of me feels like my thoughts are just me being a spoiled brat and wanting everything i dont have- meanwhile others dont even have a roof over their head. The other piece of me is just tired, just emotionally exaughsted. Please comment any thoughts or recomendations to maybe improve motovation and attitude towards doing long tasks.
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contamination ocd has really been messing with me the last couple of days. usually i only struggle when i can connect something to possibly throwing up, but this time it doesn’t matter. so earlier, i took a shower and i also use a wash cloth to wash my body. after i showered i cleaned up my dirty clothes and towels. then when i came back to grab my phone, there was a soap speck on my phone so without thinking i just wiped it on the back of my crewneck i was wearing. well that then spiraled into me thinking what if the soap was from my dirty wash cloth. i know most of you are probably thinking it’s clean since you use soap to clean ur body. well i clean every inch of my body, including my bottom so that’s where my anxiety is gravitating towards. this sounds so ridiculous saying it out loud, but i just have so much anxiety over it. i tried my hardest not to change but i did. at first i just changed my crewneck, but then i had to change my shorts cause my crewneck touches my shorts. but then i changed my shorts. and now i feel like my shirt is contaminated cause i was wearing it with my other shorts before changing. moral of the story, i just have so much anxiety over it and i feel like i shouldn’t because it’s really not a big deal. and i don’t want to change again because that seems ridiculous to me. plus now i’m connecting the contamination to my bed since i was laying on my bed before i changed. i hate life, this sucks.
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sorry if im putting to much detail in here I can take it down if it is too much and makes people uncomfy. Last night was watching some ex*pl*cit content while lying on the rug in the room in my house I spend most of my time and where my family usually goes into and it caused a physical reaction. I went to the bathroom to clean up and then sprayed the shower done and put bleach on the floor but I wiped the floor with a towel to kinda clean it but idk if I put enough bleach to clean it and if I got it in the areas that mattered and I sprayed Lysol on the bathroom counter to make sure no germs of my earlier reaction got any where but I ran out of Lysol after spraying everything but I made sure to spray the rug with some Lysol before I ran out but idk if I got everything I mean I focused on the rug but I didn’t spray all of it and I didn’t spray all the stuff that was in the room. And to make things worse after my reaction earlier I put my devices and charger on the floor of my room before washing my hands or my devices so I had to clean the floor in my room I used bleach but I didn’t put it everywhere on the floor which makes me anxious and idk if I cleaned my devices or charger well enough and I’m scared they are still infected. But back to the rug i sprayed it down with odoban it says disinfectant on it but I think it’s only for hard surfaces it disinfects but I still sprayed it around on the rug but I don’t know if it actually disinfected anything. And of course to make matters worse my baby cousins toys were in the room so I sprayed them with what little Lysol I had left but idk if I cleaned it well enough but I already put them with their other toys so idk what to do. After I thought I cleaned everything I put my devices on my mattress I don’t have my blankets on my mattress yet cause I washed them like a week or 2 ago and they are just laying on my bed but not put on my mattress so I’m scared my mattress if infected since I’m laying on my mattress with my feet on my chair and my devices are on my mattress. And idk I don’t want people getting those bad germs in them and I,worry about this a lot and Ik a lot of people will say that it isn’t that huge of a deal and I want to,believe them and it helps but my mind is always telling me that even if that’s true I have a responsibility to make sure everything is clean so people don’t get hurt and it doesn’t help that I’ve been so,itchy and idk why and my little brother is also itchy idk if it’s because I don’t clean well enough and it’s my germs or not but I’m tired do I need,to clean my mattress and covers again and reclean the rug I think I do but I’m trying to go against that thinking but it’s hard because I feel like a bad persons. And today I’m scared to leave my room i feel like I’m filthy and that the rug in the other room is contaminated and it doesn’t help I need to go to the doctor today when I’m feeling like anyone I’m around im infecting
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