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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- 5y
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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- 5y
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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- 5y
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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- 5y
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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- 5y
@poprocks1 Me too!!
kaitlin23kaitlin23
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- 5y
@elizabeth246 Me three!
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- 18w
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