- Username
- kaitlin23
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Showering and sanitizing, I can’t get in my bed without showering and other people can’t get in my bed and if they do I need to wash the sheets after. I have to shower after I poop lol and if I eat before bed I need to shower. I deal with contamination ocd, health ocd, and HOCD
I also pick at my skin which is interesting because I’m so scared of illness and I know they could get infected but it doesn’t matter
I’m diagnosed with the same subsets as you. That’s interesting haha
Same , if I go out as soon as I come back home I have to shower and if I poo I have to shower . I also wash my hands everytime I touch something my head believes is too dirty .
I mainly have mental compulsions like reassuring myself that everything’s okay, wishing I could change something in the past or how something should have gone for it to be perfect and not a mess, reviewing my thoughts, feelings, and conversations with other people, I used to have magical thinking ocd as well and I would obsess over the numbers 11:11, 2:22, 4:44, and 5:55 and I would always think they meant something or something bad was going to happen to me. I crack my back joints and my fingers A LOT like obsessively I can’t get out of bed or a seat or anything without doing them first it’s annoying because it’s gotten to the point where it hurts to do it.
Well compulsivly, I have restless leg syndrome which is prolly more from ADHD than OCD... um, I compulsively read several different theories over the existence of the universe and the end of it all... ummm I have night terrors and also can’t sleep. I don’t eat but 1 time a day. I dont shower sometimes from lack of energy from thinking.
Oh gosh, skin picking, hair plucking, touching things with both hands, COUNTING is a massive one - everything is best in 3s, knocking on wood, cracking my joints
Going to the bathroom even I don’t have to go, picking my skin/hair, counting in my head, bouncing my leg, tapping the table and tense up my body
My compulsions are showering, sanitizing, and cleaning anything and everything that I suspect is even slightly dirty. I don’t bring any outside things into my house and when I get home from work I get out of the car and I immediately strip so I don’t have to worry about my dirty clothes contaminating my clean house. My washer and dryer are in my garage lol. I don’t bring my shoes inside. I have bulk Clorox wipes in the garage so I can sanitize my phone and the things that absolutely need to be brought in. Once I’m inside I have disposable booties that I wear to the bathroom and then once I’m in the shower I take them off and throw them away in the trash can under the sink. I think you get the idea lol. I’m extremely detail oriented. I also have sexual orientation OCD and health concern OCD. I’m obsessive about timing and the numbers 3, 7, and 21. I don’t allow anyone into my house and I live alone. There’s other stuff too but I don’t want to type all day and bore you.
Excoriation big time, it’s my number one compulsion. Also checking and going to the bathroom, even if I don’t actually have to go.
I do the bathroom thing too! At night though
@poprocks1 Me too!!
@elizabeth246 Me three!
what are some of your mental compulsions? I have relationship OCD but I can’t think of many compulsions I have, so does that mean I have pure O?
I guess this is kind of reassurance seeking, but I'm curious as to what is "normal" for non-contamination ocd people. Do you guys wash your hands after handling things in your house? After literally just stepping out of the shower, I just accidentally touched something I purchased today. Normally I would wash my hands, but my husband discouraged me from doing so because he knew it would start a spiral of still not feeling clean and wanting to wipe things down. So then I had to open my drawers, put on my pajamas, and get into bed/touch our clean bedding. I'm obviously veryyyy uncomfortable. Is this something that would even register as a red flag on anyone's radar? I know some people have taken to wiping groceries down during the pandemic, but that's not the concern in this case.
Good day, you awesome people! I struggle with spreading my own (bathroom/groinal) germs and "contaminating" others somehow. Logically I know it's not necessarily going to make anyone sick, but it's coming to the point where I have to wash my arm if it touches my behind at all while wiping (in case waste travels as it sometimes does)--and this morning I felt I had to wash my hands after touching the shell of my ear. It's clear that a lot of washing I am doing is to avoid guilt--I feel like I am "being sneaky/doing something terrible" if I don't do it. Some things are justifiable, yes, but the line has become so blurred I have changed many of my routines around this and I cannot tell what constitutes as "acceptable" or "normal" hygeine anymore because anything less than what I have started doing feels awful. I even wash my hands after drying off after a shower... though that I am trying to stop. I am wondering if anyone could help me out here with suggestions? Thank you so much for listening to my woes. I appreciate you all immensely.
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