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I could have written this! My life is exactly the same. It is exhausting. You’re not alone.
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@niccOCD I understand. Realistically if the sink is clean you will be fine. And you would be fine anyway. It is very unlikely that anything on your sink would make you unwell. It’s our thoughts that make us think it’s not ok and that we need to wash our hands. Have you been diagnosed with OCD? Have you had any therapy or done any reading about OCD? Staying in the house makes your world very small and only exacerbates the thoughts. Going out, seeing friends, pursuing interests helps to distract from those thoughts.
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@niccOCD Maybe try an initial call about working with a therapist on here. They will totally understand and want to help you. OCD is nothing to be ashamed about. I’ve had it for many years, read a lot about it and had therapy. It’s very real and it doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. It’s very unfortunate and you need some help to try to manage it better because you deserve to have a happy fulfilled life.
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Thank you both so much.
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I have contamination ocd
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Maybe if your comfortable we can exchange numbers and we can chat about anything but also help each other out with our ocd if you want
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@niccOCD That’s ok I completely understand and I feel asking
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Thank you for all the support. The most wicked thing of OCD is the time that it has taken from me. I am sure you all feel the same. There is a wonderful life out there, and for some brief moments during each day, I feel it. I feel like I am so selfish, and that OCD is all consuming, leaving little room for me to share my love back to my family in a consistent way.
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Hello, i have very severe contamination ocd, and as i am writing this i feel my hands are dirty lol, but anyways i wanted to know if there’s anyone specialised in Contamination ocd? No matter what type because i really need help and i looked up things but it doesn’t help please!!
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sorry this is super long i just wanna know if anyone else has been thru something similar bc i feel super alone 🩷 i have super bad contamination ocd. it was bad already but my house was like my safe space until a few months ago someone brought something into my house that i considered ‘contaminated’. and so then i felt like that part of the house was contaminated, then it spread to everything outside my room (since family is moving around touching stuff) and then somehow i got convinced everything in my room except my bed is contaminated and i need to wash my hands after touching it. in my mind its like the contamination just infinitely spreads to things after the tiniest bit of touch. idek what im afraid of anymore or even what the original thing was but i can’t let it go. when i have to wash off contamination i have to wash at least 4 times or until it feels right, or sometimes take rlly long showers and wipe down all my stuff. i even throw away food and clothes or just whole items sometimes because they feel so contaminated i don’t want them in my space. i can’t be super near people or have anyone touch me, and i also can’t bring anything new into my room since it had to go through the entry of my house which feels contaminated. i feel like all i do is lay in bed and then wash my hands and do compulsions so i can go eat or do other stuff around the house. also i never go out because i’m bc people outside make me feel dirty, and i hate thinking about how many people have touched stuff in stores or in public and stuff. so im just in my room worrying all day. i feel so trapped and the contamination/avoiding it is all i think about anymore i barely have time for anything else and im never present when i talk to people because im worrying about if i accidentally got contaminated. im starting erp next week and knowing that im going to have to expose myself to things is really freaking me out. does anyone else have this kind of ocd ? im exhaustedddd 🥲🥲💔
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contamination ocd has really been messing with me the last couple of days. usually i only struggle when i can connect something to possibly throwing up, but this time it doesn’t matter. so earlier, i took a shower and i also use a wash cloth to wash my body. after i showered i cleaned up my dirty clothes and towels. then when i came back to grab my phone, there was a soap speck on my phone so without thinking i just wiped it on the back of my crewneck i was wearing. well that then spiraled into me thinking what if the soap was from my dirty wash cloth. i know most of you are probably thinking it’s clean since you use soap to clean ur body. well i clean every inch of my body, including my bottom so that’s where my anxiety is gravitating towards. this sounds so ridiculous saying it out loud, but i just have so much anxiety over it. i tried my hardest not to change but i did. at first i just changed my crewneck, but then i had to change my shorts cause my crewneck touches my shorts. but then i changed my shorts. and now i feel like my shirt is contaminated cause i was wearing it with my other shorts before changing. moral of the story, i just have so much anxiety over it and i feel like i shouldn’t because it’s really not a big deal. and i don’t want to change again because that seems ridiculous to me. plus now i’m connecting the contamination to my bed since i was laying on my bed before i changed. i hate life, this sucks.
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