I think I have contamination OCD based on what I’ve been able to research. It’s debilitating and I just want my life back. I have to wipe down or clean everything that comes into my house. Yet there are “clean” and “dirty” areas within the house, which logically doesn’t make sense.
hey, i totally hear you and it sounds really tough dealing with those intense feelings of needing everything to be clean. it's exhausting when your mind is constantly worrying about contamination, especially when it divides your space into "clean" and "dirty" zones. you're not alone in this struggle. 💔 by the way, have you heard about this new AI-powered OCD therapy tool called 'unstuck?' when i was going through a similar phase, my NOCD therapist recommended this free AI OCD therapy tool to me (unstuckmyOCD.com/try), and it was a game-changer. i think it'll be especially helpful for you because it's designed to provide personalized step-by-step support for exactly these kinds of situations, offering guidance that feels like you're working with 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
i have this app and i love it.. just a shame that more folks in the OCD community dont know about it yet!!
I have contamination OCD, and I know what you are saying. If we don't take any steps to begin our journey, OCD creates new and difficult rules. As you can see now, life gets smaller and smaller, and exhausting with cleaning all the time.
@Anonymous here Exhausting.
@thisaintnodisco Yes. But believe in yourself and remember if we don't take these steps, no one can do it for us. Everything is based on the belief that we can take our lives back. Be sure of it.
@Anonymous here 🙌🏼
I can totally relate. I too want my life back. I am slowly getting there but it’s taking a lot of mental effort
I have severe OCD. So many rituals. Can't function hardly at all any more. Fear of contamination and checking. Just found this and I'm so desperate so looking for help to help myself.
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.
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.
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