- Username
- Jenn
- Date posted
- 6y ago
Welcome to the group :) I’m sure you aren’t the only person struggling with OCD with that same obsession. But either way, we here are all struggling with the same disorder, just different forms of it. So even if there isn’t anyone here with the same exact obsession as you we can still understand what you’re going through and won’t judge!
I am also extremely afraid of lice and bed bugs! You aren’t alone!
There are others in this community with that exact same fear!
It’s nice to know at least I’m not the only one. Some days it’s like my compulsions completely take over and I’m checking and rechecking beds and my hair etc even though my rational brain is telling me to stop, there’s always that one “what if” thought that tortured me.
Yeah, I can’t tell you how much money I wasted buying lice elimination stuff and how much I treated my hair and washed all my clothes and sheets. Every single time my head itches even a little bit my ocd is triggered. I wonder how anyone ever buys a hat or lays down on a bed in a store. I also have a really intense fear of coming into contact with poison ivy oil and getting a really severe rash. I have yet to meet someone else with that problem ☹️
I have that as well. I cannot go near anything with leaves like plants growing out of the ground even if I know they aren’t poison ivy because in my head I keep thinking it may not be poison ivy but that doesn’t mean an animal hasn’t brushed up against poison ivy and then up against the same plant. And I’m the same way with lice as well. If I get the thought in my head I’ll use a flea comb through my hair for weeks until the thought subsided and I hate trying clothes on because I feel like the person before me could have had head lice.
Oh man I am the same way. I can’t even pet my parents’ dog or cat anymore because I’m so afraid they have gotten poison ivy oil in them. I’m also afraid to touch the outside of my car because I worry that I could’ve driven some poison ivy plants and that the plants grazed my car. I don’t like trying on clothes either, and I am pretty afraid of the seats in movie theaters because I know a lot of people get lice that way.
I have been struggling with OCD for as long as I can remember and I have lost count of how many therapists I have been to. But the main one that has really stuck with me is contamination OCD. but it branches off like if there is a red smudge on paper or somewhere I’ll automatically think it’s blood and have immediate anxiety. But the OCD fear that I have allowed to control my life is the fear of getting pregnant from someone not washing their hands after going to the bathroom or if they did (who knows what) and didn’t wash their hands or shower, or even if they touch their phone (since nowadays we all have ours connected to us at all times)or something before washing their hands and then the sperm could of transferred onto that or anything and then they touch something that I then touch and then if I got pregnant (or even the thought of those “germs/sperm” being on my body at all) my boyfriend would breakup with me and we have been together for over 5 years and I love him with my whole heart so my fear is loosing him. Now I know it’s pretty much impossible to get pregnant like that but my OCD brain is saying well what if it happens to you and your the first person ever. So I literally don’t touch anything after anyone or at least directly without washing my hands right after. I was my hands probably at least 50 times a day and use Lysol wipes on EVERYTHING! I have sanitized my phone 3 times already today. I am in therapy but I feel like talking to others who also suffer and can relate helps too I know this is a strange OCD fear, I guess I’m wondering if anyone has ever had this fear as well?
Hi there I feel rather alone with my OCD Iv suffered from contamination OCD for almost 20 years, I have OCD about a unattractive girl who went to the same high school as me, I feel compelled to wash my hands with disinfectant if I come into contact with anything she may have touched I also have a mild dose of intrusive thought OCD and religious OCD I’m just wondering if anyone else has experienced anything similar in regards to the contamination OCD
Hi everyone. I have PANS OCD and had it early as a child around 5. It was debilitating I went though counting, contamination OCD even thinking family members were contaminated, hand washing till my hands were raw and more I had a good childhood but it was heavily OCD based which stinks. I am now 25 and have had manageable OCD throughout the last 10 ish years. Up till late last year I got it back again worse than ever.. I am now worried about asbestos and mold and lead and household things we moved into an older home and it’s been awful. I also worry constantly 24/7 about death… also We don’t have any of those materials In our home but my OCD won’t leave me alone. I went into treatment didn’t sleep the 4 days I was there and checked myself out, I instantly regretted it and tried going back but they wouldn’t let me back right away unfortunately. I am seeing my therapist once a week and trying to live life as an adult with OCD it never fully went away but it was so manageable and now I need to learn to live with crippling OCD all over again if anyone has any advice or relates to this please comment so we can talk. Thanks Lydia
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