Avoiding touching things

My ocd has gotten pretty bad over the past couple years and it’s really hard for me to move around even in my own house. Like if I see someone in my family take out the trash, the floor, or touch something else dirty then touch a doorknob, kitchen counter, chair, etc then I try to make sure no part of me touches those things. At this point it feels like everything is dirty and there’s constantly things blocking the walkways that I have to avoid. I feel like I have to move around my house like I’m trying to avoid the lasers protecting the safe in a bank in one of those movies.

Contamination OCD

karmad

Date posted: Yesterday

My partner does this too. We have had to work on the associations made to break this slowly. Her has no real germ focus but everything transfers. Particularly if she is frightened of a person. Slowly we work on making object around her objects again Example light switches here and floors had an association with my ex partner. She tooo upon herself the same patterns she made for people who hurt her with soemone who hurt me. Her formula the. Was applied. She won’t touch switches either. Same reason. Life had to work with her in saying hey you’re use a practiced reasoning and pattern and applied it to My pain. I was hurt not her. She could touch her game controller with a full routine until just yesterday. She had to sanitise Teaching her slowly to not trust the thoughts so much and doubt then in fact. One way we help the fake controller was I got her to use mine. I’ve not been allowed to touch hers. That will be next. She could use mine for a few days just a few days without any routine and then she tried to use hers. I asked her how she got over it and she said that’s what I said to myself. “I’m over it” The prevention of being able to do anything is exhausting. These rules the god damn rules that have stolen so much from her. Learn a phrase - maybe , maybe not. Challenging the ideal of what you think is going to happen will begin to lessen this. Tell it, maybe o don’t care what you say. I’m ok if I get sick touching this. Let’s see if you’re right maybe you are maybe not Also know downed shows us if you’re never exposed to anything things can make you sicker. This world is not a perfect clean bubble. That’s a fantasy that is unrealistic. OCD tells us unrealistic things. It’s not our friend. It’s a bully. Give it a name and stop calling it “my OCD “. That gives a sense of ownership. It’s a bully. It wants a prisoner. We rbi k it’s protecting us. It’s not. It’s a learn pattern and it can be broken. I watch my girl as she managed to tackle these one by one and she couldn’t do anything when I met her. She was a complete slave to it all. I couldn’t touch her feet. This went on for along time. Then one day she just said touch them. That was then gone. I’m fe been teaching her not to be afraid of it. And to understand there a chemical anxiety response that happens. We work on that and separating it from the mental aspect when it comes up. She’s beginning to see it’s a learned response a chemical release the adrenaline release. Practicing this with her she has some success. The feeling is uncomfortable and distressing but she’s not always immersed in it now. They used to combine the thought and body response. We can break them apart.

splootpig

Date posted: 25w

Messy Behavior with OCD

I never heard about people with OCD who have messy living conditions. Maybe this is why it took so long to accept my diagnosis. Although I really dont like how OCD is percieved at by the majority of people, I feel like Im weird or something because I dont fit into that stereotype. I understand that a lot of people with OCD have this issue, but why do I feel so different? If anybody else has/had this belief, what helps with feeling more comfortable? Everytime my mom points out my room, and how its messy- Its like I feel so lazy and useless. So then I often plan out everything I was going to do, step by step, always having a reasoning behind everything, because logic always comforts me. When I start tidying up my room, I go full out (Sheets, Laundry, Clorox, Candles, Vaccuming, Then I start going through the guinea pigs cage to rearranging all of their stuff) Yet always somewhere after doing a few things, I start feeling disgusting and almost shameful of myself. 99% of the time I end up laying on my floor sobbing, noting every little thing about my room. How my furiniture doesnt match, how i would rather have solid floor like hardwood or vinyl instead of the carpet, usually things i cant change… and then barely anything gets done in my room. I start to have a meltdown and often dont take care of myself even more afterwards. A piece of me feels like my thoughts are just me being a spoiled brat and wanting everything i dont have- meanwhile others dont even have a roof over their head. The other piece of me is just tired, just emotionally exaughsted. Please comment any thoughts or recomendations to maybe improve motovation and attitude towards doing long tasks.

bun <3

Date posted: 24w

everything around me feels contaminated :((

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 🥲🥲💔

Contamination OCD

flowerpetals

Date posted: 18w

spiraling over anxiety

contamination ocd has really been messing with me the last couple of days. usually i only struggle when i can connect something to possibly throwing up, but this time it doesn’t matter. so earlier, i took a shower and i also use a wash cloth to wash my body. after i showered i cleaned up my dirty clothes and towels. then when i came back to grab my phone, there was a soap speck on my phone so without thinking i just wiped it on the back of my crewneck i was wearing. well that then spiraled into me thinking what if the soap was from my dirty wash cloth. i know most of you are probably thinking it’s clean since you use soap to clean ur body. well i clean every inch of my body, including my bottom so that’s where my anxiety is gravitating towards. this sounds so ridiculous saying it out loud, but i just have so much anxiety over it. i tried my hardest not to change but i did. at first i just changed my crewneck, but then i had to change my shorts cause my crewneck touches my shorts. but then i changed my shorts. and now i feel like my shirt is contaminated cause i was wearing it with my other shorts before changing. moral of the story, i just have so much anxiety over it and i feel like i shouldn’t because it’s really not a big deal. and i don’t want to change again because that seems ridiculous to me. plus now i’m connecting the contamination to my bed since i was laying on my bed before i changed. i hate life, this sucks.

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