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- Black widow8
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- 5y ago
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- goodbye_ocdgoodbye_ocd
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- 5y ago
Do your parents know about your ocd? If not, you should consider letting them know.
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- Black widow8Black widow8
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- 5y ago
They do yes. They took me to get my diagnoses but they don’t rlly understand it
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- goodbye_ocdgoodbye_ocd
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- 5y ago
It's all ok. You're not alone. But remember to use this app and especially the SOS button on the bottom right for unexpected anxiety
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- janajana
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- 5y ago
Also since you said your parents don't really understand. They took you to get your diagnosis so they seem supportive? That's good! Maybe there's like a group for relatives of people who have OCD? We have that in my city, people can go there and the doctors explain everything to them and help them understand better, and I'm guessing the people can also share their worries and questions etc I don't know
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- locustmoonlocustmoon
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- 5y ago
I don’t know if this is enabling but I use water to rinse of the tap so I can convince myself anything that was there has washed away
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- Lark G.Lark G.
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- 5y ago
This is a challenge for me as well but try focusing on one hand wash knowing that’s more than enough and to leave when that’s done no matter what you touch
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- yinberlyyinberly
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- 5y ago
I lose track of time when I’m acting on compulsions, especially in the bathroom. I keep a kitchen timer and set it for 5-10 minutes and the alarm always snaps me out of it. I also will have loved ones check on me if I have been in too long. If you think it would be helpful for you, ask your parents to be patient and physically be there at the bathroom door when they ask you to come out for breakfast and not to leave until you come out
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- BusyCat
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- 5y ago
Another imagined scenario at work tonight when washing my hands at the break room sink - every time I finished rinsing my hands, my brain convinced me I had taken them and rubbed them all over the sink. Like cleaning the sink with them in place of a wipe or something. Just over and over. So naturally my response is, oh darn let's wash them again. I was in there forever. This has happened to me when people are in there too and it's so mortifying because I can't stop, and I know people can see me. People waiting to use the sink (or bathroom if I'm in there) makes my compulsions SO much worse. It's just exhausting.
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- Greenery99
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- 1y ago
OCD and bathroom
Does anyone fear spreading things to others by using the bathroom? Do you keep needing to wash over and over?
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- lily_07
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- 1y ago
Showering
Anyone else’s shower routine take forever?like I don’t know if it’s related to OCD or not but this is my routine,so I get in the shower wash my hands rinse the bottles under the shower so there’s no stuff on it then I shampoo my hair and condition,use a wet cloth to wash my ears very thoroughly which takes like a minute 😭then I wash my hands again then I wash my face and then I wash my hair bobble then tie my hair up and wash my body and I have to get every crevice like inside my belly button in between my toes,scrub under my nails with a clean brush which I soak in bleach so it’s 100% clean every time I use it 😭I use a loofah and I wash it after every use and then I exfoliate not every day, and then I wash my body again and then I wash my hands again and then I get out the shower and make sure I don’t touch any door handles or anything and then I do my skincare and put deodorant on and that takes forever too because I spend like a minute doing it to make sure it’s fully applied and then I wash my phone then wash my hands again then dry my hair and get into bed,I don’t know if this is part of OCD or not but saying this out loud sounds very excessive 😭
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