Any tips ?

Hello everyone, I’m knew to this app and I’m glad I came across this platform where it is a safe environment for us who deal with OCD. I have Contamination OCD and was wondering if anyone has any tips that has helped them. I change about 3x a day . 1.) I have clothes for my bed. 2.) I change out of my bed clothes into clothes that I can roam around my house in and sit down on couches , beds, or chair around my house. 3.) Clothes to get in my car I have a mountain of clothes by the end up the week and an expensive water bill because of it I also have a routine when entering my own bathroom which is so draining. Does anyone have tips ? Thanks for reading

Contamination OCD

Username: thisaintnodiscothisaintnodisco

Date posted: 43w ago

I can relate. I am new to app and community as well. I’m sure you’ve done something similar but the only thing I’ve tried is, here and there, I try and just stay in the same clothes and tell myself “its fine, 2 more hours in same clothes is ok, and nothing on these clothes is going to harm me or transfer. Thats not how it works.” Nothing bad has happened so far when I do it, but it’s hard.

Username: An0nym0us123An0nym0us123

Date posted: 43w ago

@thisaintnodisco You know what I haven’t tried that, I’ll definitely give that a go tomorrow. Fingers crossed that I can get through it. It’s so draining when a piece of my clothing touches an “extremely contaminated” item around my house which sends me into hyper fixation mode on that area of my body. Thanks for the tip!

Username: thisaintnodiscothisaintnodisco

Date posted: 43w ago

@An0nym0us123 I totally get it. Telling myself that’s not how it works scientifically helps ground me in something real real not my ocd “real”. I do have to sit with the anxiety initially but each time I successfully sit with it and nothing bad happens it feels like a win. And any small victory is a victory. Try it with just with one set of your clothes maybe ! Wishing you success tomorrow

Username: EstridEstrid

Date posted: 43w ago

My best advice is to make a plan and gradually change these habits. I did when I had severe contamination OCD (cleaning hands and so forth) - step by step I could normalize my behavior. Your OCD is going to scream that you are doing wrong so be prepared and not rush.

Username: An0nym0us123An0nym0us123

Date posted: 43w ago

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Username: Anonymous

Date posted: 4y ago

I’m new to this app and really happy to be within a community of people working through same thing. I have been working through contamination ocd since the start of the pandemic. It’s debilitating mentally. It just wants me to seek certainty in every compulsion and also reassurance and researching online incessantly. Anyone else struggle with this specific ocd? Wiping down doorknobs every time someone touches them. I can’t even sit outside in the grass I’m afraid of the pandemic. I won’t touch my groceries for three days. I miss my old self. I literally feel like a different person since March.

Contamination OCD

Username: avacado3

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 1y ago

Tips?

Hey guys. I feel like you all are the right people to ask because you’re going through this as well. Do you have any tips for helping with the loneliness that ocd can bring? What helps you? Oftentimes I feel like when I’m struggling I don’t want to bring it up all of the time to my family, because ocd is the same thing to explain every time. I realized that I was becoming really isolated, especially because my themes are SOOCD and ROCD, which make me avoid relationships and friends sometimes, even though doing so is making me lonely. Any tips? Thanks guys ❤️

Username: Anonymous

Date posted: 41w ago

help, I can’t do this anymore

Hello anyone reading, I just wanted to vent here because at this point i’m not sure what to do or if i’ll ever be normal and my OCD is causing my mental health to go down the drain badly. It’s so debilitating I can’t do anything daily other than focus on it. I can’t feel comfortable anywhere, not even in my own home. I deal with the type of OCD where i’m convinced things are contaminated with chemicals or feces or any number of things. TMI: For example when I used the bathroom the other day in a public one and it went off on its own so now i’m convinced I had feces all over me so I had to shower and wash my clothes. Now i can’t even sit in my car cause the seat supposedly is covered now too from the drive home. I can’t touch anything on my floor or anywhere for that matter without washing my hands like my phone charger or my feet/shoes/ankles, door knobs, handles, anything cause i don’t even know why anymore. I’m terrified of cleaning products being on me or touching them, people spraying anything. I can’t have my windows down in the car anymore because i’m terrified of someone’s window washer fluid getting all over me. I watched a video about a guy accidentally drinking paint thinner cause he kept it in a water bottle and had to convince myself that my water wasn’t paint thinner and etc These are just some of the examples I have and I don’t know how to get over it or handle it anymore and I feel like I’m literally going crazy. Any suggestions or advice would mean a lot. please

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