OCD ATTACK

I feel so weird and dumb right now, but my brother just moved back into town and needed a place for his things. His “things” meaning a dresser and bed. Well turned out to be a lot more than two things. My anxiety started racing, I could feel my body tense up, I couldn’t catch my breath. Now everything he has brought from “outside” (from his old apartment/ from touching the inside of the dirty y-haul) to inside my clean room. Now I’m freaking out that everything is contaminated. They put it in the bedroom I don’t use, except to store my extra “things”. Now his things are touching my things that I have left in that room as storage. I don’t know how to get out of my head that his “things” are contaminating mine??? Now it makes me not want to use that room.

Contamination OCD

Username: StoicGuyStoicGuy

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 46w ago

Hello, use this opportunity to practice ERP. First of all you can't prove things are dirty nor that your room is clean. These aren't even your thoughts. OCD demands certainty but you can't provide that. Here's what you do. Allow the thoughts to come, notice them, then go back to whatever you were doing. Say to yourself " maybe they are contaminated and maybe they aren't" there's no way to know. Live with the uncertainty. It's scary but that's the most effective way to treat OCD by exposure through ERP while not doing compulsions. If you ruminate, avoid, clean, etc then you are strengthening OCD with compulsions.

Username: StoicGuyStoicGuy

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 46w ago

You are stronger than OCD, remind yourself of this fact. Go in the room. Touch those things you imagine are contaminated without washing or mentally ruminating. Don't talk to your thoughts at all other than saying " maybe they are or maybe they aren't contaminated."This is how you get OCD thoughts out of your head. Show OCD you are okay with uncertainty because you don't actually know if anything is contaminated.

Username: ShellyBlanco99ShellyBlanco99

Date posted: 46w ago

i totally get how you're feeling, this sudden change can be really tough to handle. remember, it's entirely valid to be affected by such disruptions, so don't ever feel "weird" or "dumb" for your reactions. 💙 by the way, have you heard about this new AI-powered OCD therapy tool called 'unstuck?' I've been in similar episodes before where everything felt contaminated, and what really helped was using 'unstuck'. it's a free tool recommended by my NOCD therapist (unstuckmyocd.com/try). i think its personalized guidance can be super beneficial for situations like yours, helping you navigate these overwhelming thoughts. it gives real-time, step-by-step support, similar to an OCD therapist. i hate when people promote stuff, but i really think it can help you because it's changed my life. lmk if you have Qs or just want to talk more! <3

Username: Bhappy

Date posted: 3y ago

OCD and fear is robbing me of the most happy moments of my life. My husband and I just bought our first house, an event that should be one of the happiest of our lives. However, I am miserable. All I can think about is that one of the walls of my daughters bedroom is shared with the kitchen and the refrigerator. Since my obsession right now is radiation, my mind is convinced that I’m harming her by exposing her to the radiation coming from that wall into her room. I would sell this house if I could even if my husband divorced me. That’s how bad my anxiety is and my need to bring my child to safety. Everyone just tells me how crazy I am and how nobody would even consider my concern a real one. But this is driving me insane. I’m starting to believe that I’m just addicted to this anxiety feeling because there is always something that I worry/obsess about no matter what. Im just exhausted.

Username: Anonymous

Date posted: 2y ago

Trigger warning OCD is taking over my life

I can’t deal with this OCD bullshit anymore. It’s to the point where every time I walk out my house and come back in I have to sanitize my shoes then the floor where my shoes stepped. I even have my boyfriend doing this and he doesn’t have OCD. I can’t even enough life like I use to anymore I have constantly be cleaning and disinfecting. All these chemicals that have gotten on my skin I know that can’t be healthy. I’m scared the thought of even walking in with my shoes and not using disinfectant triggers me so badly that it ruins my whole day. This all happened when weeks ago I saw a skunk at night walking through the apartment complex I lived in. Then I took my dogs to the vet to get their vaccines. Even though there was no contact I still freak out about rabies. Then the vet assured me that everything was ok. Then I see this stray cat that walks around the apartment complex and he is always trying to come up to my apartment door or the walkway then I’ve seen him walk we’re the skunk area was so now I’m like what if this cat has rabies and I walk where it walks and track it in my house and get rabies. God forbid. It’s to the point where we have a shoe rack and we have to disinfect every time we walk in and out. The other day I had guest and when they left the whole entire house was mopped and I even had bathe my dogs too since they were walking around where everyone was stepping. I even threw away their dog bed and bought them new ones. Please help I can’t live like this anymore.

Username: Anonymous

Date posted: 1y ago

Contamination/Somatic OCD support

Hi i’m new here. Everyone in my family except me is now positive for Covid and i’m freaking out so badly i cannot sleep. i cannot eat. i’m worried i’m going to get sick, i have a phobia of throwing up too on top of all of this so it’s making this even more difficult hearing coughing/gagging/vomit. My face is literally tingling numb and i cannot sit still. I’m trying to calm myself the best I can because this is almost a nightmare to me but nothing is working and my therapist isn’t even responding to me. What do i do? i’m so scared

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