Just ate three bites of a sandwich and noticed the cheese in it was smelling odd and now I'm paranoid thinking I'm going to have a food poisoning or v0mit and I have emetophobia so...
Maybe you will, maybe you won’t.
You woke up and choose hard truth 👏
I have ,very severe ocd of contamination and other, but trying to do a ERP. It is very very hard , small steps . The best thing which I realised and it is helping me to fight ocd is . I tell my self do I want to live my life in a fear and worrying about things and have really bad life and at the end die. Or I want enjoy my life , do things peple do every day and do not worry about every single stain ,some dirt on my hand and other things and at the end will die anyway like all people. So I decided to live my life and enjoy. It is very hard to do not response to compulsions, feels very real, but when you resist the urge dissapears eventually…
@EdGrig I totally understand your struggle. I’ve cried and had sweat from anxiety to not give into OCD. Then I noticed through the struggle after about 10 months things weren’t bothering me as much. I’m still having bad hours but it has gotten easier. I know it will for you too. You can say “No” to OCD 👍.
@LowellT The worst is when , I know that everything is clean and I have clean hands havent touched or expised my self to anything contaminated , BUT! There is that feeling something isnt right 🧐 and it is very difficult to ignore that takes hours sometimes to get rid of that feeling
@EdGrig This link may help: https://www.shalanicely.com/aha-moments/shoulders-back-the-man-in-the-park/ The man in the park is telling you something is wrong
@EdGrig I know exactly what you mean and I still have things like that come up. I have hit and run OCD. Before I started with NOCD I would always go back if I hit a bump to see if I hit someone. But when I started doing my ERP if I thought I hit someone I was not to go back. I was to think “Yep. Someone is flipping around in the road needing medical help”. I remember one time it happened and I had so much anxiety I thought it would last a long, long time. It lasted a few hours then mellowed out. On this app we all have the same issue in the end. It is we can’t handle doubt in certain areas of our life and to not give into those compulsions to bring about certainty. I understand your struggle. I know something and that is I know you can say “No” to OCD. It’s just one step at a time. I know you can do it 👍.
Check out this resource for when eating is difficult and you have OCD:https://www.treatmyocd.com/blog/what-can-i-do-when-ocd-makes-me-afraid-to-eat please know you are not alone and this is very treatable! You can do hard things. Eat the smelly cheese, LOL.
I'm just stupid and the cheese wasn't spoiled it was just a different kind of cheese...
@calicocookie You’re not stupid - OCD makes us jump to certain conclusions. I still remember when my now retired ERP therapist asked me what I thought something looked like on the bathroom floor- my mind went to the worst. He had me look again and consider other options - it was torn flooring that showed a sliver of the black underside - that really helped me realize how quickly OCD goes to what I worry about when other people would have seen the reality instead. 🤪
@Erin P I have a fake spider where I can see during the day to remind me is the false alarm OCD really is.
@LowellT I love it. I used to think insects were a bad omen now I take them as a reminder that I can do what I need to.
@LowellT Lowell that’s a creative idea! Erin, I’m glad you realized why the cheese smelled different, I’m sorry OCD jumped to conclusions, it is often a false alarm like Lowell said, which is why sitting with the feelings of anxiety and not reacting is so important.
This happens to me too. Have you tried watching a comfort show or movie while eating tobget your mind off of the meal or snack you're eating?
I have a lot of OCD obsessions and compulsions around food contamination, so I can definitely relate. I am in ERP (exposure and response prevention) therapy for my OCD. I’ve done both in session ERPs and homeworks around this theme. With time and practice ERP has been a huge help for me.
Recently, I’ve been struggling a ton with what I eat/put into my body? I’m a first year college student with a few different health issues (including IBS), and lately it’s been hard for me to find food on campus that doesn’t 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 it’s 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 I’m too afraid to eat food other than what I buy myself. I feel so trapped. I don’t want my OCD to affect my physical health or prevent me from eating, bc I love eating!! It’s the fear of getting sick that’s the problem. And it’s even harder when everything is so unfamiliar. Just wondering if anyone could relate. Advice is appreciated!
i randomly started a fear of vomit in 1st grade, i think it was because of a big chaos that happened when someone did it in my school. i’ve been scared of hearing it, smelling it, seeing it, being around it, hearing about others stories etc. i don’t know if this could be signs of ocd, neither do i know if i’m right to post here. i can’t eat in public without washing my hands / using hand sanitizer. i wash my hands, then while i wash them, i think about everything i’ve touched, which makes me wash them more. my hands are pretty dry. i can’t touch anything after washing them. not even chairs. when i sanitize them, i use around 4-5 sprays. then i spray my nails. i am the worst while travelling. i keep distance from everyone, i hold my breath while walking past people, i can’t touch anyone, and i avoid public bathrooms. i need to make sure everyone at my table sanitize their hands before they eat too. i almost never eat chicken unless my mom or my friends parents has made it, i’m extremely afraid of food poisoning, i barely eat meat (pork, beef), because i can’t trust anything. i always take a plate that looks visibly clean. it can never have dirt/stains. in buffé’s, i have to grab food from the back of the pan/plate. i dont trust random resturants with 3.6 star in reviews, i need ABOVE 4.2. i get tons of images in my head of vomit. i have nightmares. i have this thing where when i play guitar, i NEED to play the part perfect, or else i will be stuck like that unperfectly forever?? i have to do it again and again until its perfect. every day i have to tell myself «today is good. this food is safe. we are having fun. im super excited.» words like that in my head 24/7 and i even tell myself that while im singing, doing maths in my head which is weird. it takes so much space and i can’t stop. if i get images in my head, i repeat «no, no, no, im healthy», if i don’t, i might get sick. i cant even go to playgrounds, soft plays, places where many kids are. im so sorry if this was hard to read. if you are an expert, please tell me if this is something i should talk to a psychiatrist/psychologist about, and if its signs of ocd. thank you.
Trigger warning ⚠️ , Hi, I’m Anna, I’m a young adult in my senior year of high-school. I’m not sure what subtype of ocd this may be but my obsession changes, usually one lasts 3 months- a year and it’s been like this since I was a small child. For example it used to be an obsession over sweat, then over religion, then over getting ill. Now it’s strange, very strange but I’m afraid of my dad slipping something into my food. We have a rocky relationship and in arguments he’ll sometimes makes comments that scare me like “we should all 0ff 0urselves” or that he wants us “dead”. I also smoke pot time to time and he doesn’t approve and I’ve had this strange fear of him slipping me something stronger to “teach me a lesson” after I eat anything of his if I absolutely have too I wait an 15-60 minutes and look for any signs of illness or a high. It’s exhausting because he mainly cooks in the house and I’ve lost 5lbs this week due to this fear..it’s consuming me and may be my most exhausting obsession yet.
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