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- 2y ago
Contamination
I just changed my nephews diaper and afterwards I washed my hands 3x and then used hand sanitizer and cleaned my rings ๐ ๐ excessive?๐ ๐ ๐
I just changed my nephews diaper and afterwards I washed my hands 3x and then used hand sanitizer and cleaned my rings ๐ ๐ excessive?๐ ๐ ๐
Hey Ashleyrenee! It can be really difficult to resist our urge to complete our compulsions. I can tell you, before I started learning ERP, there way absolutely nooo way I was going to just "sit with the uncertainty." I followed exactly what my OCD thoughts told me. I realized during treatment, the compulsions I completed were actually pushing me further into the OCD cycle. If you need help with learning how to resist those compulsive urges, please reach out!
@adelinesdragon Thank you so much ๐ซถ๐ป I definitely will. I just scheduled an assessment with NOCD and I am looking forward to it (:
@ashleyrenee That is incredible! Thatโs already a big step. Proud of you friend!!!
Hello Ashleyrenee! This is quite the compulsion to do after a diaper change. May I ask how you felt after doing this? The reason that I ask is because I know that doing this only helped for a moment and each time I felt I needed to do it more and longer. As Adelinesdragon stated, feel free to find out how you can take the steps to slowly remove the need to do this. All the best! We are in this together!
@ I felt fine at first and then felt like I had to keep doing it because my hands were not clean enough ๐ and thank you so much!
Depends on whether you got Poo Finger. Sometimes you need extra washes to get the stench out. :D
I have contamination OCD that causes me to excessively wash my hands/clean items with disinfectant wipes. I know I just need to start with small exposures but how do I do that without spiraling? I tried a while back by just touching the outside of my dishwasher and not washing my hands after and it led to me being unable to even exist in my house. I basically lived on my couch for three weeks as it was the only 'safe' space that I had not touched with my dirty hands. I had to take a week off work to clean my house to make it somewhat liveable. I still haven't got round to cleaning everything though so things like my kitchen are still no-go zones that I don't enter. I just don't know how to start ERP without it making everything worse. Any advice would be appreciated. I am not seeing a therapist at the moment due to financial constraints.
Trying not to seek reassurance, but rather connect the dots on my OCD and possible reasons as to why I am the way I am. I have severe OCD (or at least I hope I do) mainly surrounding POCD. I've had symptoms of OCD the majority of my life but this theme has come up more recently. When I was a kid, and i'm talking 6-7, I was first exposed to some really gross adult content online. It was introduced to me by a friend of mine around the same age of me. I saw some really disgusting things that a 6-7 year old should definitely not see. This was not a one time occurrence, as I had been exposed to taboo topics online years to come after that, such as the same friend introducing me to Omegle... And i'm sure you can imagine how that went, theres a lot of genuinely disgusting human beings on there. Coming back to the reason for making this post; is it possible to early exposure to this content could be one of the reasons I struggle with POCD? It genuinely scares me to death because you hear that real p*dos dealt with simular situations when they were kids, so thats kind of making me feel that this could be more than OCD, and I could be a genuinely bad person. My POCD feels so real, that at times i'm fully convinced its not OCD. Sometimes I can't even distinguish the feelings of attraction between a younger person and an older person, except for the feeling of anxiety and fear. Its really hard to explain without going into detail, but it just feels so real. Some feedback on this would be great, thank you all.
Recently, Iโve been struggling a ton with what I eat/put into my body? Iโm a first year college student with a few different health issues (including IBS), and lately itโs been hard for me to find food on campus that doesnโt upset my stomach. I also have pretty severe emetophobia, and feel extremely anxious when I feel sick. The ironic thing is that being anxious makes me feel even worse, so I end up sticking myself in an impossible loophole. My OCD has taken hold of these fears over the past few months, and itโs been such a struggle. Especially since people have been getting food poisoning from various dining halls on my campus lately. My OCD has gotten so bad that sometimes Iโm too afraid to eat food other than what I buy myself. I feel so trapped. I donโt want my OCD to affect my physical health or prevent me from eating, bc I love eating!! Itโs the fear of getting sick thatโs the problem. And itโs even harder when everything is so unfamiliar. Just wondering if anyone could relate. Advice is appreciated!
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