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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
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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
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I’m diagnosed with the same subsets as you. That’s interesting haha
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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 .
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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I do the bathroom thing too! At night though
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@poprocks1 Me too!!
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@elizabeth246 Me three!
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I don't know what to do, my hands have become so numb and bruised because of constant washing hands, i have started hating each and every furniture around me, beacuse i feel they are not clean although they are being cleaned regularly but i cannot stop these thoughts. I clean my phone, bluetooth, charger with wet wipes each day, i don't touch any object around me, i am not being able to focus on my studies or anything else because of my ocd ihave stopped going out, everyone around me is so fed up of me. I have consulted so many therapists and been taking ayurvedic supplements too but nothing works. It is getting worse and worse, please if anybody can suggest me how to overcome these thoughts!
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I need advice. I’m constantly washing my hands after going to the bathroom/touching something I find gross, but it doesn’t stop at just washing. I have to keep washing til I feel right (usually 3-4 times). It also isn’t just my hands, I go all the way up my forearms. I know in my head that once is enough. But I can’t kick this repetitive behavior. I know I should just start only washing it once but I don’t know if I can handle the panic that will come after. I need advice/tips if anyone’s gone through something similar what worked for you. Im just sick of this
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So maybe the title wasn't the best to to put it but when you guys start having obsessive thoughts how do you stop them before it turns into compulsions and anxiety?
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