- Username
- Tyler
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I’m facing the same issues. I had to stop cleaning them otherwise I’d spend forever on each item. So I have my husband clean them. I would sit and watch him to make sure he did it “right” but eventually I just had to tell myself that he’s going to do his best and be ok with the uncertainty of not knowing if it’s cleaned “right” or if my family will get Covid from it. So now I don’t watch him when he cleans them and I don’t clean them and just live with uncertainty. So far we haven’t gotten sick.
Probably not supposed to say, bc it’s reassurance, but it’s literally so unlikely to catch covid from surfaces. It would have to be a super particular situation where a very sick person touched the thing, deposited a large viral load, and you touched the thing and then your face within a couple hours. If y’all are like me, we’re washing or sanitizing our hands enough and taking every precaution. It’s very unlikely to get covid from surfaces
Thanks for saying so. I know that on some level, just wish that fearful part of me could believe this too
The thing about doing it until it feels right is the more you do it, the less right it feels. At least for me. What I try to tell myself when I'm stuck in a loop of cleaning repeatedly
All the time
Is anyone else starting to regret treatment? I had moderate contamination OCD gr hat I had JUST gotten a handle on, and now because of COVID-19 I feel like the world suddenly expects me to act...exactly the way I was, and I KNOW the difference, but I’ve been guilted out of purell as part of “treatment” and now we actually need it I don’t have any and feel guilt buying it. I’m just really starting to wish I’d never gotten help ?
I’m new to this app and really happy to be within a community of people working through same thing. I have been working through contamination ocd since the start of the pandemic. It’s debilitating mentally. It just wants me to seek certainty in every compulsion and also reassurance and researching online incessantly. Anyone else struggle with this specific ocd? Wiping down doorknobs every time someone touches them. I can’t even sit outside in the grass I’m afraid of the pandemic. I won’t touch my groceries for three days. I miss my old self. I literally feel like a different person since March.
(How can you do ERP when there is a legit concern?) Trigger warning for Contamination OCD/coronavirus. For instance, I’m pregnant right now and have had a resurgence of contamination OCD. (I also have GAD, so I’m never sure which tactic to take with a thought.) Health really is a legitimate concern here, and I’m told I should be more careful. Of course I overdo it, yet ERP seems to be the exact opposite of being more careful and that seems very, very unwise. How do you do exposure for something that your doctor says to not do? How do you do exposure for something like, for another unrelated example, not wearing a mask around other people right now in the time of the pandemic when you’re absolutely required to wear a mask and it’s dangerous to not? ERP basically doesn’t make sense to me. By that thinking I should be changing the litter box and not washing my hands and *I definitely should not do that*. How do you do ERP when there is a legitimate aspect of an actual concern?
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