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It's so hard to deal with this every time my period is late i start to think that i'm pregnant oh it's so bad sometimes even when i get my period i still believe that i'm pregnant
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Unfortunately, I can't relate to that part ☺.
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So no....no one finds that wild that people can come home and not wipe their groceries? Okay. Hahaha
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Sorry, we got off on a tangent didn't we ☺? Do I wipe my groceries off? No. But when my contamination OCD was at its worst, did I do similar things? You betcha.
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Hhhh no that's bad they should do that but we have ocd so every thing seems bad
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@Ben84 Thanks Ben! I actually really appreciate knowing that you dont and you're still healthy! And also appreciate knowing that you got over that part of your ocd. Nice to know this isnt forever.
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I get you but est feel like after all this time covid is in the world people find the cleaning like so much work to do and they get sick of doing so they stop after a while it's not healthy or safe but i think the logic behind what they doing also it is very strusseful to live cleaning all the and i think we (ocd people) knows how hard it can be
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I also have cantamination ocd but i have only one type of it it's (sperm, semen) ocd i know it's very weird and not very popular in the ocd community but yeah that's one of my many thémes
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That was one of my first themes.
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@Ben84 I think your male from your name but can you tell me in how form you had it cuz mine was (still) the fear of getting pregnant from the toilette sets i wonder how does work for a man i hope you understand my question
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@Naya rownan For instance, I was afraid of even tiny particles of it getting everywhere. I hated the thought that my semen would touch anyone else in any way. I also had some fears that I could possibly get someone pregnant if they came in contact with my semen.
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Hhh Lucky you
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I agree it blows my mind what people don’t do for general cleanliness or germs, let alone with Covid. If I am to go out mostly to a doctor appt, I feel I’m already dirty from being there so I will hit the supermarkets on the way home. My groceries go right into the garage or the system below. Clothes into paper bags. Then, I go right into to the shower for a while. I do have a system for my food. I get almost all of my groceries delivered, rarely go to germy store except as stated above. I leave my groceries in garage for a few days. (Except for my cleaning products, Clorox wipes, bleach or Lysol they are temperature sensitive so they go into a clean paper shopping bag.) Then they are put into of the 3 cardboard banker boxes I have by the front door. I wear gloves and wipe down everything that comes in this house. I wear gloves to get the mail and it goes into a paper bag for at least a week. Perishables go into little lunch bag or little 4 gallon trash bags to be wiped down at a later time. I’ve never had Covid, and I am fearful that I could get it. I am not a good candidate to get something like that. I have high blood pressure high cholesterol a little overweight, (but so is everybody else),type AB blood and I’m older, 54 .
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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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(long read ahead, sorry lol) I’ve struggled with ocd for as far back as I can remember. I find that it gets worse with stress, and recently I’ve really been struggling with the contamination aspect of my ocd. I’m worried about it becoming unmanageable and negatively affecting my relationship with my partner. I’ve been living with my boyfriend since January (got kicked out of my house a week after I turned 18, it’s for the better though my house is toxic as hell) and I love living with him, but him and his family aren’t as concerned with cleaning as I am used to. My boyfriend and I have been together going on 2 years and there’s been many times throughout our relationship that his struggle with depression severely impacted his ability to keep up with cleaning his room. This is something I completely understand because I’ve struggled with it too so i’ve often helped him clean, and since i’ve moved in he’s done so much better at keeping up with cleaning (especially because he knows about my issues with clutter, mess, germs, etc.) He is really good at being accommodating towards my needs (not overly so, i’m aware that recovering includes accepting being uncomfortable), but it’s so hard for me to differentiate between what is the normal standard for cleanliness and hygiene and what’s excessive and unhealthy. I get so stressed out every single day over the thought of how dirty everything is. He has 3 cats that mainly stay in his room (he has a catio attached to his window/side of the house) and dogs which stay on the opposite side of the house and backyard, so there is fur everywhere constantly (i’m also allergic to cats but it’s not severe). I can’t stop thinking about how they are getting germs from their litter box all over everything. They also used to piss under his bed and in his closet when his room used to be a mess and it’s soaked into the floor so no matter what it stinks. It’s so hard to bring myself to walk around the house without slippers because my feet will get visibly dirty and my socks would get covered in hair. I always think about how my boyfriend sometimes walks on the rugs in the bathroom in shoes and all the germs that spreads. There’s so many more things but this is already getting long and I am shaking just thinking about how unclean everything is. I want to deep clean the entire house myself so I can get it to where It’s not like psychological torture everyday and it’s easier to maintain but I have been so busy I don’t have the time. I am worried about my boyfriend thinking I don’t like living with him or that I think that’s he’s dirty but i don’t. We have had several conversations about this and he’s reassured me that he knows none of my obsessive thoughts are personal but I still feel so bad about it. I would like to get therapy to help work through this but currently that is not an option for me. I know things will get better once I get through the main things in my life that are causing a lot of stress and therefore making my ocd flair up, but I need advice on what to do in the mean time. I keep having moments where all I can do is shake and cry and clean and I feel bad for my poor boyfriend who can only sit next to me and try to comfort me or help me clean. I also don’t want to make him worried that nothing he does is enough for me (i’ve also already talked to him about this and told him about how I can never even be clean enough for myself and that I don’t think he’s dirty). There’s been many times where I want to tell him to do things that I think might be my own unhealthy compulsions (ex. not wearing shoes in the house or in our room, not getting into bed with socks on, making sure to completely dry off before getting out the shower, put makeup and jewelry back where they belong right after using them, etc.) but i can’t tell if they’re reasonable or not and i try to not tell him unless it’s something that severely distresses me. I’m aware that everything is going to have germs no matter what and have been using NER’s to help manage my thought spirals/rumination. I know that I shouldn’t keep doing compulsions because it just offers temporary relief and makes the problem worse because nothing will ever be enough. I just feeling so overwhelmed and hopeless and exhausted and want some feedback.
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sorry this is super long i just wanna know if anyone else has been thru something similar bc i feel super alone 🩷 i have super bad contamination ocd. it was bad already but my house was like my safe space until a few months ago someone brought something into my house that i considered ‘contaminated’. and so then i felt like that part of the house was contaminated, then it spread to everything outside my room (since family is moving around touching stuff) and then somehow i got convinced everything in my room except my bed is contaminated and i need to wash my hands after touching it. in my mind its like the contamination just infinitely spreads to things after the tiniest bit of touch. idek what im afraid of anymore or even what the original thing was but i can’t let it go. when i have to wash off contamination i have to wash at least 4 times or until it feels right, or sometimes take rlly long showers and wipe down all my stuff. i even throw away food and clothes or just whole items sometimes because they feel so contaminated i don’t want them in my space. i can’t be super near people or have anyone touch me, and i also can’t bring anything new into my room since it had to go through the entry of my house which feels contaminated. i feel like all i do is lay in bed and then wash my hands and do compulsions so i can go eat or do other stuff around the house. also i never go out because i’m bc people outside make me feel dirty, and i hate thinking about how many people have touched stuff in stores or in public and stuff. so im just in my room worrying all day. i feel so trapped and the contamination/avoiding it is all i think about anymore i barely have time for anything else and im never present when i talk to people because im worrying about if i accidentally got contaminated. im starting erp next week and knowing that im going to have to expose myself to things is really freaking me out. does anyone else have this kind of ocd ? im exhaustedddd 🥲🥲💔
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