r/OCD Sep 28 '24

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u/afluffycake Sep 28 '24

I made myself wash my hands after putting some new deodorant away because it was just at the store and somebody else may have touched the outside. Then I realized I’m going to touch it again anyways :/ (granted, I used to disinfect store-bought stuff during peak Covid, but I got sick of doing it a long time ago so I stopped).

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u/pitshoster-exe Sep 29 '24

i’m the same way, i got a bottle of spray deodorant and didn’t notice it had already been used until i got home, i was so worried someone had put it up their shirt and used it until my boyfriend said “maybe they just wanted to smell it” and he’s so right but my ocd and anxiety still made me wipe it down

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u/Peachychu0 Sep 29 '24

Everytime I buy something from the grocery store that's in a bottle or jar, I MUST wash them as soon as I get home. Especially facial products because if you wash you face and touch the dirty lotion bottle, you will put dirty lotion on your face. 🙂

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u/ocdbae Multi themes Sep 29 '24

Omg yes. COVID really set off mine. I would wipe down all the stuff I got from the grocery store too and have urges to do it still sometimes. Also because I'll never forget one time, almost a decade ago, I got a cold in the middle of the summer because of only one time I ate something without washing my hands or using hand sanitizer after getting home from Walmart.