FUCK i really REALLYneed help. Been overthinking. My fucking cousins have lice and they’re contagious right? Well I contracted and I’ve been doing everything to get them out but my cousins are lazy and won’t exert the same effort. I thought I was free from if, turns out I still have it bc I found a big one. I’m FREAKING out. My friends and I are close and I just worry I might have given it to them too and I’m gonna cause an outbreak. I feel so guilty and like i have to confess to them incase they do have it so they can take precautionary measures so we wont be passing lice to each othef but at the same time i kind of dont want to because im so scared they’ll avoid me or not be as close much I’m 19, lices are for kids. I feel so ashamed and embarrassed i dont know what to do

I went to use the bathroom at work today before leaving. I went into one of the stalls and noticed what looked like dead skin flakes. I was just plain grossed out by it and went to another stall. 20 minutes pass, nothing till I get in the car and then a thought occurs, the dreaded "what if" question, which came at first from curiosity and devolved to obsession. I wasted 30+ minutes in my car going down a rabbit hole freaked out at the possibility that this person had scabies, following with more obsessive "what ifs"; like what if the previous person there did have scabies and one or more got loose on the floor with the fallen dead skin and some how latched itself to my shoe, and now my shoes and/or clothes are contaminated, and now my car probably is too. Exhausted from the associated anxiety, for those first 3 hours or so, I knocked out in my car for 2 hours while my girlfriend was working; and it helped clear my mind a bit, but I still can't shake the "what if" still lingering in my mind. I almost don't wanna go back in my house or touch anything, especially my books. I feel like an ass over this, especially since I used to work in emergency medicine, and ought to know better about this and not allow myself to be so irrational. And I have had patients who have had scabies and did not freakishly obsess then like I did all this afternoon...... Anyone else go through something similar? I feel like OCD may latch onto this for a while now. Thanks for listening/reading.

i was just looking in the fridge and there was some raw meat in a container but i didn’t know that it was meat so i opened the container to check what it was. and i don’t know if it was blood or if they were marinating it but a little bit of it got on my fingers and i wiped my hand on my clothes without thinking and then i just rinsed my hand in the sink, and thought it would be fine cause i only touched the container and i also wasn’t really sure if it was meat or not yet because i didn’t get a good look at it and i just kept doing what i was doing, but then i kept thinking about it and started realizing it wasn’t fine and went to wash my hands with soap and i didn’t know if i needed to change my clothes or not so i thought it was fine too and laid in my bed and stuff and now i realized that i should’ve changed my clothes and i did but now the bacteria could be on my bed and other places and i don’t remember everywhere i touched and i can’t think straight and im too scared to leave my room and wash everything in case of spreading it more and my dad and brother are drinking so they’re not gonna listen to me if i said to wipe everything out there and im just freaking out. i feel horrible for being so careless and i’m really scared that my pets and dad and brother will get sick because of me

I work in social work and today I went into a home that was infested with fleas. I immediately freaked out. Once getting back to the office I was freaking out, my boss didn’t understand and wanted me to go back. I ended up not listening literally stripping in the parking lot throwing my clothes away and going to a truck stop to shower. Anyway, I’m still stuck on feeling the need to shower every time I go near my car since I was in it before I could shower the first time. Obviously I need to go to work and use my car and I know it doesn’t have fleas but any tips on how to feel better about this? I’ve been too anxious to go near it and every time I do I feel the need to flea bomb the car, throw my clothes out, and shower.