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Sorry to hear. Poop and bodily fluids in the bathroom is my trigger and I’ve been exposed to them like this and I know how distressing it is!!! I can completely relate. While I don’t have advice other than trust your cleaning and try to sit with the anxiety and treat this as an exposur
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For me my fear isn’t germs and getting sick but just pure disgusting feeling and it’s so hard to wash that off. I struggle so much so I get it
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Thank you so much for responding it means a lot to me. I’m still really struggling with this. Everything feels gross and contaminated. I still have the bathroom blocked off and I am dreading going in there to do a second cleaning before I will be ok with using it again. This is such an awful disorder. I feel so bad for my husband too. I’m trying to get over it. For me it’s both the feeling of being dirty and getting sick.
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I’m so sorry to hear you are struggling. I know if I were in your shoes I would do the same. They would suggest that by treating this as ERP, the anxiety will go down eventually but like you I have struggled with this. For example, last year a used bathroom paper towel fell on my shoe. I was sooo anxious about this. I wrapped my shoe in plastic and tried to move on. By ERP logic, the anxiety should have subsided by now which it has but the problem is I still cannot get myself to use that shoe again without major distress. So I can relate about the challenge you are going through. Hope some experts here have more useful tips. But I will say continue to treat this as ERP.
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I’m trying but as you know it’s so hard. And I totally understand about the shoes I have like two pairs that I don’t want to throw away but I don’t want to use for similar reasons. I’m sorry you’re going through this too! At least we all can understand each other though. Im going to doctor today to see about changing up my medicine. I’m going to look more into ERP but it’s so terrifying. Seriously thank you for responding I was really spiraling with my anxiety and reading your comments helps a little, which is a lot!
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I’m so glad to hear. I’ve been very afraid to take medicine but highly considering it.
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Yes I totally understand that. He prescribed me fluvoxamine, I might not be spelling that correctly. It is an antidepressant that is prescribed for OCD. I did some research on it last night and it seems to have great results so I’m hopeful that it helps. I’ll let you know if it does.
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Hope you are much better now
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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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This is a long one lol but basically, a couple of weeks ago I went to the toilet (#2, sorry for the tmi). Let's just say it was messy. I remember that a speck of.. #2.. Fell off the piece of toilet paper. This was probably the worst thing that could ever happen. I can't remember clearly but I'm pretty sure my jeans were on the floor underneath near where the speck could have fallen. There was also a towel. I don't know exactly where it fell as it was so small, but I made sure both the towel and the jeans went in the laundry basket and I cleaned the floor near there. Fast forward to like the next day. My mum does most of the laundry, so she will have picked up all the towels and clothes from the laundry basket and taken them to the wash. The problem is the speck. I don't know where it went but if it was on the towel and she picked it up.... Thus, contaminated mum. And she also puts clothes away that are dry. I remember that day she put my hoodie in my wardrobe, and I haven't worn it since because I feel it is contaminated. I haven't worn the clothes that have touched the hoodie. This leaves me with not a lot of clothes. And today I finally snapped and picked up a sweatshirt that had maybe touched the hoodie. And now I'm just sat here spiralling, wearing it. What if it touched the speck? What if the speck touched my mum and then touched the hoodie which then touched the sweatshirt I'm wearing? Please I'm so scared.
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Everything is filthy and it’s because of me. So I’ve(16m)been kind of getting better at handling my cocd but recently I was in bed and had a ‘physical reaction’ I won’t delve deeper into that and my fear revolves around bodily fluids so this is obviously something that would trigger it but I tried to just sit with it and just told myself ‘ok I’ll just washed my covers then’ and I take the covers off and to my horror my mattress is discolored and idk why I use a protector on it but I guess only a few years ago. There’s like discoloration on the top and yellow discoloration on the side and the side that touches the wall has black discoloration and I’m just so disgusted. But I go wash my covers and then my mind just wanders to the fact that my little cousins are coming over for my brothers birthday and I panicked I need to clean and that’s when what happened earlier really bothers me I basically just turned my room into a biohazard I look and my mattress is like touching 2 things those things are infected now according to my brain and I panick now the whole room is dangerous my dirty clothes that fell on the floor now the floor is ruined. So Im now slowly cleaning over the past few days and its not helping im just freaking out more and on top of my room the bathroom is dirty and idk how to clean it I mean IM guess im scared i won’t clean good enough because im the only one who will clean it even though 2 other people use it and dont clean it its dirty and it irks me so bad every time i use the shower I spray it with bleach and the floor around the shower but the bathroom counter is dirty and I need to clean it but idk if it’ll be enough. And I need to mop but every time i mop my feet still get dirty from just walking on the floor so i must be doing something right. Idk what to do im panicking everything is dirty idk what to do I need advice.
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