Saw blood on the bathroom floor. My major disgust trigger. I luckily saw it before I can step on it but anxiety is at an all time high and I want to take a one hour shower and major compulsions. Ocd is making me think I stepped on it. The only way for me to feel better is to participate in compulsions and explain to myself why that’s not disgusting. I can’t breathe. What is the best way to handle this from those of you who are experts.

Sit with the anxiety

Been sitting. It’s so bad. I ended up overly washing and then I stepped where I stepped before washing I wiped my foot and now I have major doubts. Trying to sit with the anxiety more

It'll be difficult but no matter what stay with it, you've got this!

Id find a distraction? Play a game or listen to music, hope it helps.

I'm so sorry. This is so hard. You're doing an AWESOME job by trying to fight back against this compulsion! Even in the times when you give in, you still get a trophy because you're TRYING YOUR EARNEST BEST, and alternately you could not try, and everything could just be awful and impossible forever. But you're not going down that easy. YOU ARE DOING THE THING. YOU ARE FIGHTING BACK! YOU ARE DOING IT! YOU ARE AWESOME! You ARE going to get there some day if you keep up this hard work. You ARE going to get to the point where these behaviors do not control you anymore; you WILL successfully take control with enough time and determined practice. Every single person who has ever downloaded this app believes in you and is rooting for you and is celebrating every small success, every five seconds you made it without rushing into the bathroom and indulging in the compulsion. Every five seconds is a victory. They're gonna keep adding up. You're gonna conquer this.

Thank you both soo much. It wasn’t easy. Today was a new day. I did t have a trigger and I don’t care about the events of yestrday anymore. That said. It still took me many hand washes today. It’s far from perfect but I am so afraid and cannot live my life this way that I’m considering g taking the medication I was prescribed. I was really afraid about it for some time.

Stay strong! ✌❤

Thank you!!

It’s so hard. Still ruminating and still anxious and now other forms of ocd have surfaced with intrusive thoughts so I’m just all around anxious and struggling and unable to sleep

Hi everyone. It’s been a few days. I’ve sat with the anxiety and while it goes away the shoe I wore the day I saw the blood is still there untouched. That alone is still making me so upset. I feel like I need to wipe it or throw it away (it’s an old worn out shoe) and I know I shouldn’t but it’s over bearing. If I keep wearing it I will feel like blood will get to my foot even though I just saw it and did not step on it. This happened last year and I still have yet to deal with the shoe I wore. It’s hard.

Sorry. What I meant to say is the same thing happened last year and I haven’t gotten over that with that shoe. This incident happened last Wednesday and I’ve been dealing with the anxiety and been very afraid.

I can’t touch the shoe and I can’t go back to that bathroom. I’ve been so dehydrated when I’m at wiek