- Date posted
- 1y
OCD is making my life a real HELL
Hi there, I'm new over here. I would be so grateful if I get to hear from someone. My problems with OCD started with COVID19 pandemic and they have worsen with the time. I have contamination OCD, with excessive fears about getting sick or making my baby sick if I do a mistake, I also wash my hands excessively much, sometimes as much as 30 times in an hour. I fear so much to get in touch with contaminated things as packages from online shopping, food, and other stuff. Even if I'm aware that it's silly and many times absurd way of thinking, those what if thoughts always kidnap my rational thinking. I'm so lonely since I move about 10,000 km away from my home country and where I live I just have my husband and our baby I spend most of the day at home since I'm so scared to catch a disease outside, I have stopped mostly going out. Until today when finally decided to go out and be inside of a couple of stores without using a face mask. It makes me sad ny husband didn't congratulate me instead he wanted to argue. He has been specially rude and mean with me. Even if I'm very goendt with him I have almost begged for his help, understanding, patience, empathy and support, he doesn't. Now I feel and see my marriage it's about to end. The small achievements I do are invisible for him. To my it makes it worse my whole OCD situation since I know a lot about diseases and I document myself so much, I wish I was more ignorant or even stupid. I feel anxious and sad, I cry everyday. I know I'm depressed, u have had depression before, many years ago. But this thing with OCD, ITS FOR SURE THE WORST that I have experienced so far. I wish there was some other people I could talk to in order to get to hear what has helped them.