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Now this part sounds like OCD. Believe me when I tell you, no matter how much you wash and clean everything, OCD will never be satisfied. The best thing you can do is to try and sit with the uncertainty as long as you can. These compulsions will make you feel better temporarily, but will only fuel the OCD in the long run. I know it's scary, but you can beat it! I promise!
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This!!
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Thank you so so so much! I am trying my best to sit the discomfort of not knowing if my hands are full of germs or not. I'll try not to do compulsions. It's so so so scary. Thanks a lot for your reply. You helped me so so much! I hope you have a great day! 💜 Let me know if you need to talk cause I'm here for you! 💜
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Hi Sorry for bothering.. I just wanna say that today my mom is sick... I feel like it's my fault.. even my sis is kind of not okay... I really do feel like it's because of my sneeze on the floor and all... My OCD convinced me it's my fault.. also, my dad's shirt fell on the same place where I sneezed that day and I pick it up. I put a little sanitizer on my hand but I have the urge to go and wash my hands. 😭😭😭
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@itsAnna Well you have to accept the fact that no matter what you do, people get sick. Sit with the uncertainty of "maybe I made someone sick and maybe I didn't." This will be difficult at first but I think you can do it 😊
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@PanikinSkywalker I will try my best! Thanks a lot! 😭❤️ I hope you have a great day!!! ❤️
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I touched My sister's earphones and I'm now even more scared cause she is gonna use her earphones soon*
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My main fear is spreading illness to my family. :(
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I think its ok for you to wash on occasion. But just once. You really have to say to yourself "am I doing this to clean my hands after handling something, or am I doing it out of compulsion?" If you were to wash your hands 5+ times in a row 50 times a day then thats obviously your OCD. I don't have contamination OCD and I still wash my hands several times throughout the day, so I think there is a healthy balance there when you aren't doing ERP.
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I also touched phone, earphones, etc.. do I have to wash these objects too?
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My sister's earphones, brother's phone, etc. :(
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Thanks 😊 you too!
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My mom made chicken soup today, and she left raw chicken skin on the sink. There were some dishes next to it and I grabbed some tongs and put the chicken in the trash. My mom washed all of those dishes including the tongs I used and now I'm scared of salmonella. I didn't say anything to her about the chicken bc she usually gets frustrated and says I worry too much. I made sure to wash my medicine cup before bc I'm sick and I was scared of getting salmonella on top of my sickness, but i regret of not doing anything for my parents. My mom already washed all of the dishes with just dishes soap. What do I do?
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I’m so scared. Part of me feels ok and part of me feels like I need to clean everything off. Basically my sweater had a stain on it from food it was newly washed but I decided to throw it in the wash again. While throwing it in the laundry basket I noticed a specific type of clothing that scares me. I quickly put the sweater on top of the used laundry and left. My phone was in the living room and I’m pretty constantly scared it will get contaminated by laundry I’m not sure why but that fear started randomly. Anyway I had to walk past the living room to wash my hands in the kitchen because someone had to use the bathroom badly and was waiting for me to just throw my laundry in to go to the bathroom. Anyway I’m scared I went near my phone or contaminated it with my hands. I can’t remember the details fully either but I just remember walking straight to the kitchen but I don’t know. I’m really scared and I want to clean everything like my phone and everything it was near. The thing is my fear is real because used laundry is so gross. What do I do? When throwing clean laundry in a basket should you wash your hands? Do most people? Even if the article of clothing isn’t dirty? Because maybe my hands accidentally went near the actual gross laundry I don’t know
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So Im staying at my uncles house until Saturday or Sunday and I feel like I’m filthy and making his house infected and idk what to do so when I first got here his house had grass I walked through to get to the door so I made sure to wipe my feet at the door and leave my shoes close to the door but I still feel,like I’m infecting his house he gave me and my little brother a room to sleep in and the first think I think of is how I need to wash the sheets when I leave. The first day was hard because I couldn’t shower and I felt so dirty because we had to go on a walk and I was sweating and we also had to water the grass outside and I had the same socks on as I did yesterday and I just felt like they were filthy and I was walking with those socks around the house so now his carpet is filthy and the bed I was laying in is now filthy. And I couldn’t shower because I didn’t have any cleaning supplies to clean it after I was done because I didn’t want to wash in their shower and now clean it afterwards. But I got someone at the store and took a shower and changed clothes and I felt weird about where to put my dirty clothes I hung them on the shower curtain rod but I feel like I just infected the rod. And afterwards I tried to spray off the shower with some Clorox foam cleaner but I feel like I didn’t clean it good and even feel bad about cleaning it because I was afraid the chemicals I tried rinsing off the shower and the bottles I was using in the shower but still feel like it’s infected. And don’t get me started on how I feel about the bags I’m keeping my clean clothes in and also the other bag I’m keeping my dirty clothes the bags are laying on the floor and I feel like my clean clothes are getting dirty from the floor and my dirty clothes are dirtying the floor and the towel I was using I used to dry the bathroom floor and asked where to put my towel he said on the dryer but there was stuff on it so I put it on a box above the dryer but I feel like I just infected everything and also Ik he touched the towel WHST if he gets THISE germs on his kids . Also the covers me and my little brother were using fell on the ground and his kids were playing in them and stuff like that but my little brother said it was fine and still used them but idk and his cover he brought touched my dirty clothes and the floor and he still used them and I just feel kinda ill about that. And today me feeling filthy just multiplied because I can’t SHOWER again today because someone’s toys are in the shower and idk how to get clean becuase we leave soon and idk what to do do I just change clothes? Idk about wipes because I can’t just ask for baby wipes and now I’m walking around with no socks because I only brought one pair and my others ones were put in my dirty clothes bag and now I have to go places no socks just in my flip flops. And last night I went to the restroom because I didn’t want to have an accident in the night because I’m always anxious about that stuff and I went but I feel like I just infected their toilet and I washed my hands after but I went back into bed but my feet touched the bathroom floor so now the bed is hay I feel actually infected and since I’m laying in it I’m infected too. Idk why I woke up so depressed and feel so filthy and guilty idk if it was the pose I was sleeping in or if I think I had an accident idk but we a lot of places to go today and idk what to do I was going to get Lysol at the store today to spray stuff but I don’t think I can get everything and I feel so sick he has kids what if I give them bad germs I can’t live with that
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