Water and Contamination OCD

Hi everyone, I’m new here and this is my first post. For about a year now I have not drank any tap water (not even filtered). Somehow I became convinced a while back that my tap water was not safe to drink straight from the tap, and shortly after that I became convinced that filtered tap water was contaminated too (and that the filters themselves are somehow contaminated). Logically I know none of it makes sense, and I’m not even sure what I am afraid of happening if I do drink it. It doesn’t feel like a fear of getting sick, just an intense sense of dread at the thought of drinking the water. I also have some problems with drinking bottled water especially if I feel like I can taste the plastic. So I have almost exclusively drank canned sparkling water for a year now. Has anyone dealt with similar contamination fears?

Contamination OCD

Username: AnonymasAnonymas

Date posted: 40w ago

I have this with some food additivs i feel that if i eat some packaged food or candy the additivs will cause a lot of disease to me and i will have a sick baby and it worsen bcs i studied all the impact of food in tbe body but what i do is push myself to eat this stuff sometimes and tell myself that whatever its inside my body is strong and can handle it sometimes its hard to enjoy it i confess but i think u should force urself time to time to drink water whatever the source is i hope u ll feel better soon ❤️ remember its all abt ur mindset how do u talk to urself abt it u can say that would be great to try water whatever it is even if i dont like the test it would be good to at least experience it 🌸 hope this helps

Username: lizasnlizasn

Date posted: 40w ago

@Sofi.a Thank you. It helps to know other people experience similar things, I feel so embarrassed to talk about this with most people irl. I think you are right, I need to try and push through the fear and drink the water. ❤️

Username: AnonymasAnonymas

Date posted: 40w ago

@lizasn I am sure u will feel better u and ur body and stronger than u think keep me updated 😍

Username: lvglvg

Date posted: 40w ago

Hi! I had this with food, was convinced I’d get food poisoning if my steak was still a little pink on the inside. I now like steak medium-rare! I know it’s hard, but one day I just decided to try a little bit, and didn’t get sick. Then the next time, I’d get my steak cooked medium. Didn’t get sick. I overcame my fear like this! Don’t force yourself to drink a full glass, just try a little sip. I believe in you! Also, don’t feel rushed. Take your time. This is your journey, and you deserve to take however much time you need.

Username: xohelgawontwin

Date posted: 5y ago

I get OCD about eating and drinking certain things. Anyone else?? Like my brain will tell me that it's poisoned or something. Help !

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: j

Date posted: 3y ago

I don’t normally make posts like this but if anyone can relate or has advice so I don’t feel so alone I would appreciate it! I feel like crying and I’m so anxious. So I’ve been dealing with an ocd flare up since February. It started out as contamination and harm after I had a really bad experience on a edible. The contamination mostly centered around the fear of someone accidentally giving me an edible to someone putting it in my food or water. Then it went from there to my Brian going you know what’s worse than edibles? LSD. So then I obsessed over that and it’s been like that on and off. I’ve had an extremely hard time with it it’s been one of the worst themes I ever had. I don’t eat certain things. Especially sweets. I avoid them. I avoid taking medication Bc I’m scared. I limit myself. I’m horrible about opening water bottles and if it doesn’t open just right I won’t drink out of it. I know it’s crazy I know it’s untrue but the panic I feel traces back to that night. I don’t ever want to feel that out of control again it scared me so bad I got diagnosed with ptsd (to be fair I had a lot of unresolved trauma that caused my glass to overfill) well, I’ve been going to EMDR therapy it’s got my ptsd under control but the ocd is louder. My ocd is clawing to stay alive. I’ve started to have intrusive thoughts now about my boyfriend might slip something into my water even though ITS NOT TRUE. So then I panic because the thoughts are so irrational that I get scared like why would I ever think that about him???? But the intrusive thoughts are so jarring and I don’t want my ocd to focus on him now! I need advice! I’ve been prescribed pristiq but haven’t taken it Bc you guessed it.,.. I’m scared to! I can’t go on like this! The thoughts are so irrational it scares me even though the rational side of me knows it’s not true but I guess that’s ocd. We get scared of the thoughts even though we know it’s not true and I know it’s my brain trying to keep the ocd going. I know therapy must be working otherwise my theme subjects wouldn’t have changed so fast. I’m so tired of this.

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