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I touched the car door handle and licked my hands. My fate is undetermined and I hope I live. ???
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I'd say it's definitely reasonable and going beyond would be giving into your OCD.
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I really hate poison, venoms, bug spray and all that kind of stuff, and always think that I will end up being poisoned myself and die lol but my main concern here would’ve been why on earth did he touched the mouse droppings and didn’t washed his hands after? ? I’m sorry but he’s just gross lol. I also think what you did was enough and I’m so proud of you for licking your hand and not giving into your ocd thoughts. ??
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*opinions
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I'd say that's reasonable tbh. Are u having trouble touching your doorknob still, even after cleaning?
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Oh yes. I'm afraid we will all die. But if the consensus is that it's safe, I would rather operate from a position that it's the OCD.
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I have a two-year-old, a six-year-old, and I'm pregnant with another baby right now. It drives my OCD through the roof.
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Tqh, honestly, before I posted, I ended up having a complete breakdown, taking the car to a carwash, and throwing out the kid's new coloring books, because I had those in my dominant hand when I closed the door. This guy was really weird. He looked through our windows after he knocked. He crowded the doorway. He doesn't remember whether he wore and removed gloves. He handled a dead mouse with his bare hands and told me I should probably wipe down the garage door handle because he was handling a dead mouse. AND he told my husband he was going to give him the NRA handshake, where he grabbed his arm, cocked it, looked down his arm like a sight, and pretended to fire it. ??? I cannot shake how weird he was. He was an older gentleman, too, that sounded really young. In fact, tonight, I heard my husband in the kitchen and I was so worried this guy was breaking in, I got out of bed. Too many (or just the right amount of?) My Favorite Murder podcasts, I suppose. But my plan is to not get murdered.
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Wow! I would’ve been very uncomfortable around him, and i really think that he’s supposed to wear gloves while handling dead animals, especially a mouse ?, maybe you should call the company and tell them about his weird behavior? I always say to myself that I really don’t have contamination ocd, but after reading this, I think I do, cause I would’ve gone crazy if this guy did those things in my house ?
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Does anyone have any tips on how to handle contamination OCD?
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This is a long one lol but basically, a couple of weeks ago I went to the toilet (#2, sorry for the tmi). Let's just say it was messy. I remember that a speck of.. #2.. Fell off the piece of toilet paper. This was probably the worst thing that could ever happen. I can't remember clearly but I'm pretty sure my jeans were on the floor underneath near where the speck could have fallen. There was also a towel. I don't know exactly where it fell as it was so small, but I made sure both the towel and the jeans went in the laundry basket and I cleaned the floor near there. Fast forward to like the next day. My mum does most of the laundry, so she will have picked up all the towels and clothes from the laundry basket and taken them to the wash. The problem is the speck. I don't know where it went but if it was on the towel and she picked it up.... Thus, contaminated mum. And she also puts clothes away that are dry. I remember that day she put my hoodie in my wardrobe, and I haven't worn it since because I feel it is contaminated. I haven't worn the clothes that have touched the hoodie. This leaves me with not a lot of clothes. And today I finally snapped and picked up a sweatshirt that had maybe touched the hoodie. And now I'm just sat here spiralling, wearing it. What if it touched the speck? What if the speck touched my mum and then touched the hoodie which then touched the sweatshirt I'm wearing? Please I'm so scared.
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My ocd has been at an extreme all time high the past 2 weeks and I am in dire need of some relief. I’m not sleeping right anymore. for context: I live in the south and found a springtail on my sheets about 2 weeks ago. This was like 2 days before our bug guy came and sprayed (it’s a normal maintenance thing here) so it’s a common bug down here and I’ve found them all over different areas of the house before. Finding it in my bed sent me on a bit of a spiral bc I started to doubt if it even was a springtail and that i was wrong and that it was a bed bug, not trusting my brain. It was a bad, sleepless night and carried over continuing feelings. Typical ocd stuff. Well two days later, I’m a nurse and I had a patient that actually had bed bugs. This wasn’t the first day they were here and I did not see any myself but it still freaked me out. There had one 2 founds after visitors came the day before. Of course I wore PPE in the room (coveralls shoe covers and hair net) going in and took everything off before exiting the room. When I came home I stripped in my garage and bagged everything down to my shoes. Threw everything in the wash and did multiple cycles. There were no other steps I could take but I still had a terrible night. Hours of ruminating and going back and forth about tracing my tracks, thinking of new ways I could’ve taken one home with me. Just checking everything. I was already on a spiral from the springtail. Having two such back to back triggering events for me so closely related has made me deteriorate significantly. I was already doing bad with my normal OCD and starting therapy here. I obsess over the thought of having bedbugs constantly and haven’t been able to sleep. I am constantly checking my bed while in it and can’t settle down. My bed is heavy too and I keep hurting myself lifting my mattress to check. But I need to check. I’ve become obsessed. I check everything and go down Reddit rabbit holes looking for new things. And of course, I talk myself into it every time. I can’t take it anymore, it’s bleeding off into other parts of my life like friendship and marriage because I am so high anxiety right now. I need relief so bad. I’ve never felt this unstable to be honest. I feel like even someone without ocd would be really struggling with this topic, nevermind me, with ocd to a point where I just started treatment. These aren’t even my normal intrusive thoughts and compulsive acts. It’s just taken on a life in the last week and I can’t find any sign that it’s going to slow down. when I think rationally I know I did everything right to prevent but I can’t shake it. 💔
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