- Username
- rosecoloredgirl
- Date posted
- 5y ago
What a pain. So sorry. I was 21 when I first got lice so it does happen to adults. I remember how ashamed and embarrassed I felt. And it’s *super hard* telling your friends about it so they can get treatment if necessary. All you can do is just be straightforward, tell the truth, apologize and move on. You didn’t do anything wrong; your apology is more an expression of empathy. If they get upset with you just acknowledge their frustration and steer the conversation off blame and toward action. Best of luck to you. Btw, the 2 times I’ve had lice, none of my friends caught it from me.
Lice is generally treated easily
Find a therapist on the ocd foundation site, if none are in your area, call some therapists that are not close by and ask them to recommend someone in your area.
I also had lice when I was 23 or so. Remember it has nothing to do with hygiene or cleanliness. I don't know if you have to tell your friends though. Would it be a compulsion to confess this? Can you try to speak to your cousins so that they take the treatment seriously? Maybe explain to them that they need to do their part too, so that you can all get rid of the lice.
Accept the uncertainty: maybe you’ll get lice, maybe not...even the worst case scenario isn’t so bad, you buy the shampoo, I know the OCD can catastrophize things and make them seem impossible...I’ve been there, but lice are very low stakes so rest easy, I’m sorry you’re upset!
Having lice doesn’t mean you’re not a clean or hygienic person. (: maybe just be honest with your friends, I think they’ll understand!
I remember recently, I bought a hat at a secondhand store for Halloween. I washed it good, but my head was itching for days after it. I panicked I had life! I called lice treatment experts, washed all m stuff obsessively, etc. Turns out I used too much detergent and it irritated my head. No lice! It might be worth calling some experts though. I dont think that would could as reassurance. They might be able to point you in ways to treat it, have your cousins treat it.
Yesterday I was watching a show and I thought the boy was cute and just randomly texted my cousins cuz we were watching the same show. I’m 23, & at first glance I barely paid attention but I thought he was at least 21, but my cousins replied with “he looks 18 you pervert” or “it’s looking bad for you”. I started freaking out immediately checked to his face properly again and he did look younger, & I felt so disgusted with myself. I felt terrible, instantly regretted everything & didn’t know what to do. I’ve been anxious since last night barely been able to sleep cuz I just complimented someone who is younger than me. My mind is now like ruminating that I’m a pedophile or pervert for thinking that. I hate this because I honestly wasn’t thinking of it in that type of sense like I would date him or something, I was not aware. I would’ve forgot about that moment after. I needed to get it off my chest cuz I have been feeling exhausted & terrible.
I’m having a horrible time today with my OCD. I worked a 7 hour shift in which the checkout line was consistent. There was many children in the line as well as all type of people, ranging from clean to smelly to outright dirty. All day I’ve been feeling as if there are piojos (lice) in my hair and even imagined the feeling of them falling onto my neck. I know I do not have them, but I have been picking at my scalp until it bleeds for the past hour because I feel as if there are piojos in my hair or bugs under my scalp. I keep having thoughts to take a knife and dig into my scalp to create an opening to pull the bugs out even tho I know there isn’t any and that I would only be harming myself. How do I combat my bug-related OCD??? And what is a healthy alternative for skin picking when I feel as if I have bugs under my skin??
My pocd has been so so awful this year i absolutely hate it. it gives me so many intrusive thoughts that plays into real events / false memories. An incident happened today and i cannot stop panicking. I was laying on the sofa as my head was sort of hurting and i was sleeping. My younger cousin came to get the remote from me and before she did i moved my head away from her and then closed my eyes and waited for her to move bc close contact makes me anxious. But here’s the thing. i’m freaking out because what if i moved my head back so it brushes past her private area? did it brush past her? were my intentions bad?? 😭 and the thing that makes this feel more real is the fact before she came over to pick the remote up, she called my name to change the channel but i didn’t reply and i think i knew she’d come over to get it. i think maybe that’s why i opened my eyes to move the control but by that time she had already come over. am i a bad person? literally an hour before this i was holding my breath when she was next to me because i didn’t want to breathe too much as it may make the sofa move underneath me which she was sitting on too. i feel like the worst person ever & i deserve to die 😭💔
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