kaitlin23
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- 5y
poprocks1poprocks1
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- 5y
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
poprocks1poprocks1
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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
sanitizemysanitysanitizemysa...
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I’m diagnosed with the same subsets as you. That’s interesting haha
gabs gabs
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- 5y
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 .
huneyskisshuneyskiss
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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.
BorkBorkBorkBork
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- 5y
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.
sarah123sarah123
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- 5y
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
AsnkuAsnku
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- 5y
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
sanitizemysanitysanitizemysa...
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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.
KyNeumKyNeum
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- 5y
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.
poprocks1poprocks1
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- 5y
I do the bathroom thing too! At night though
elizabeth246elizabeth246
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@poprocks1 Me too!!
kaitlin23kaitlin23
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@elizabeth246 Me three!
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- 25w
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Anonymousss7
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- 21w
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i have contamination ocd and i have a hard time knowing what’s normal- please help me get back to normal!! do you worry or clean under your fingernails when you wash your hands? do you specifically wash your thumb? if so how? do you pay attention to the pace you wash your hands at? do you ever feel the need to do things a certain amount of times or count while doing things? in the shower do you wash your hands at any time? especially after washing private areas? question for the girls!! how many times do you wipe after you pee? how do you all pee so fast?
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