my puppy licked in my nose and i’m scared about that disease that you can get that can cause you to lose your limbs!! omg i’ve been on google for hours!!! i know it’s rare!! but i don’t want to be the one to get it!
From my understanding there is almost a less than 1% chance that could happen! Your dog will always want to lick you that will never change, some say a dogs mouth is cleaner than a humans is!!
@JerseyDog2000 Thank you so much!
think of all the people who's puppy licks there nose and think do you really wanna live like this? im sure they dont google stuff about that. enjoy your precious puppy! but yeah I et thats so scary idk. I feel like most people dont even know about that?
@Jewelsandgems you’re right.. ugh i know most people don’t know about that.. but of course me with my health anxiety will go find out about things that most ppl don’t know about! thank you for your kind response!
@FunkyFred Looking up stuff on Google is a compulsion. Do your best to live with uncertainty. You do know you have a much higher chance of dying just driving in a vehicle but I'm guessing you get in a car. Or choking on food. Or dying from numerous other ways. OCD is irrational. Even if you find comfort looking something up online OCD will attack you a different way the next day. I have 25 years of OCD experience to speak from. It will continue until you accept uncertainty and start doing exposures.
@StoicGuy You’re right, thank you!
So I'll help you out. Tell youself you may get that disease or you may not. Only God knows if you will or won't. Accept this fact and any other scary thought while also not doing compulsions to be free of OCD.
@StoicGuy thanks a lot!! cus you’re right honestly,
I started dealing with OCD when I became fixated on health issues, particularly the fear of contracting a life-threatening disease. If I experienced any kind of medical symptom, no matter how small, that even remotely hinted at something potentially fatal, it would drive me crazy, and I couldn’t stop obsessing over it. Then one day, I started having intrusive thoughts about accidentally hitting someone with my car, and I would end up driving in circles to check if I had. Eventually, I found myself overwhelmed by a flood of new obsessive thoughts and compulsions. One day, while I was at the park, a squirrel came near me, and for some reason, I felt like it attacked me. I Googled it and learned that squirrels could carry rabies, which spiraled me into a deep fear of rabies. I became consumed with the thought I received a bite from a squirrel, raccoon, or bat any time I’m in areas that trigger me. It started off only being inside then transferred to even being in my own home. This made me obsess over every physical sensation in my body, compulsively checking to make sure nothing was wrong. One compulsion that I hated the most would to be putting rubbing alcohol on me to make sure that I had no open wounds. Every day feels like I’m walking around in a fog of anxiety, constantly worrying that I won’t even make it to old age. Sometimes, it gets so overwhelming that I just want it all to end. It stresses me so bad at times to where my brain feels like I’ve been studying all day.
i’m so scared im going to lose control and end up locked up or something. this is so exhausting!! i worry that what i have isn’t OCD and that im genuinely insane and im gonna end up in big trouble or that the urges i have are going to actually happen. i dont want to think these things ! i feel like a horrible human being!!
hi peeps today i found out i have mono, and for someone with contamination ocd that sucks even more than usual. am i really supposed to be worried about who i might infect for the indefinite future? and the fact that i wont know for weeks if i got anyone sick? and i’ve got a big trip with my family planned in a couple of weeks and im worried that one of my family members is gonna end up having symptoms before we go. has anyone else ever been in a similar situation? how did u deal with it without missing out on everything?
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