Contamination ocd

Hi guys!!! Any tips how we can live with contamination ocd.. it is so bad that I don’t mind going through other themes.. somehow my falsehood ocd was better than contamination one.. I have a phobia of waste water carrier.. I think they r dirty stuff n contaminate everything .. one came to my place to pump the waste water .. and now I feel everything is contaminated.. I can’t sleep in my room today.. all clothes r dirty!! I see poop.. I smell it everywhere and everything is dirty Ik it is wrong but the fact that my dad gave handshake to the man and help out.. they are all behaving it’s normal.. my mom is sitting on her bed folding clothes despite being so close to the carrier.. when I told her she told me .. I should fear god cause my brother is dead and is rotting in the soil so why should I fear waste!!! My ocd makes me things of my dead brother so much that sometime I feel scared… if I see a skeleton .. my mind will instantly tell me that is my brother and I can’t see any movie where we have a skeleton.. My dad purposely touched my AirPods with his dirty hands.. my AirPods is my most fav things I got when I was studying in London.. I don’t know how to clean myself or everything or what should I do !!!!! Even part of my falsehood is telling me that my window was open when the carrier came m.. I want to wash everything.. curtains clothes and I don’t know what to so anymore!!!! Does anyone have any tips about how I can just cure the contamination ocd!!! Or funnily if I can shift to other themes.. Perhaps my family won’t understand me.. but I do know that the person working in that carrier is a human who has his family to feed.. I don’t ignore them or feel disgusted by them .. but my part of my brain is broken..it sees contamination everywhere.. I am so sorry if my post is hurtful to anyone or any profession.. I was never like this OCD just changed me and am ashamed af

User11123

Date posted: 29w

Hi there. First of all, please do not feel ashamed at all. You are a person with a disorder - you did nothing to ask for this and it is not a reflection at all of who you are as a person. It is an illness you suffer from. Nobody would feel shame to have a broken leg. This is just as much a medical condition out of your control as that is. I also have contamination ocd. At one point, it was so bad that I spent almost 20 hours straight cleaning. I would not leave my house. My advice here is that the worst thing you could possibly do is wash everything. That would reinforce the ocd and make it worse and worse. I know how hard it is to not do that. But the best thing you can do is, sit with the discomfort for now. It will feel horrible, and maybe you can distract yourself for a while by watching some tv or going on social media or whatever you use as entertainment. But wait a few days. The contamination will start to feel a little less bad. Even if at the end you end up having to wash things anyway, see if you can tolerate it for a few days first. I know it sounds impossible, but you are already in the situation and the contamination is already there, so you might as well wait it out a little and see what happens. I guarantee, it will start to feel a little less scary each day as your brain adjusts.

HD30

Date posted: 29w

@User11123 Thank u for understanding me and not judging me!!! It meant a lot I will surely try to resist the compulsion!! Contamination OCD is ruining my life

S. L.

Date posted: 25w

Contamination OCD

Does anyone have any tips on how to handle contamination OCD?

user2826728292

Date posted: 24w

how do you beat contamination OCD

If anyone has beaten or gotten a lot better with contamination ocd how long did it take and how did you do it? I don’t see myself getting over this theme for a long time but I’m worried for my future like getting a job , I’m scared I won’t be able to cope with bacteria in a workplace and stuff like that. Just feeling lost in recently :(

Anonymous

Date posted: 19w

Seeking advice on my contamination OCD

So I have pretty intense contamination OCD tied to Moral/Real event OCD, and I'm having a hard time with it because part of me does genuinely believe my logic checks out, and I was hoping to get some insight as to how to change the way I see it from other people who sort of get the mindset involved :). To sum it up as well as I can, I basically have a very souped-up version of the same item-event association most people have. For example, let's say you have a HORRIBLE, GOD AWFUL relationship with a person you can't even begin to think of favorably even years after the event. They had gotten you a stuffed animal for your anniversary at some point. You finally "escape" the relationship, and you throw away the stuffed animal. This is seen as a very normal and sound-of-mind action. Here's where things get tricky: For me, throwing out that stuffed animal wouldn't be enough. After all, it touched my table didn't it? And my table touched the floor right? And these things now carry that person's germs. And if I don't get rid of them, then they'll infect my future belongings. This logic isn't entirely flawed either, as even my OCD specialist said he believes in a "weaker version of what I do". How am I supposed to convince myself that what I'm believing is false when the literal psychologist confirmed that what I'm doing is just a more in-depth version of a normal experience? Ex: I have a new outfit, fresh and clean. I'm unbothered and happy, but I knick the side of a table. The table holds awful associations. I get this awful sense of dread. The clothes are now somewhat sullied, and I'll eventually have to give them away. I don't think I'm explaining this as well as I could, but I feel like those notions are there. Anyways, does anyone have any insight as to how to get my mind to genuinely believe that interacting with these things is "safe"?

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