Obsessive about other peoples germs - is anybody else? - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Message Board

maree_uk · 06-13-2006, 09:26 AM

Whenever i go out i hate touching things. Things like shop door handles, stair railings, money, cash machine buttons and well basically anything people have touched.
I usually take tissues with me and use those to open doors with.
I recently went on holiday and i really had a hard time because i think too much about what smelly people have been in that bed and their smelly feet have stood in the shower!
I have no problem at home because i know who has been touching the door handles and things.

Is anybody else like this?

rosequartz · 06-13-2006, 09:28 AM

oh yea...I don't want to touch anything.....grocery carts, doorknobs, buttons in elevators. I carry wet wipes in my purse to wipe the germs off my hands.
It's a symptom of OCD.

Skip Service · 06-13-2006, 09:37 AM

well i use my own dress to open up doors and all that!

maree_uk · 06-13-2006, 09:42 AM

Yeah supermarket trollies.. ugh

Ok thanks for replies. Its only really got this bad in the last few years. Maybe it has devolped as i get older because i remember as a child going round friends houses after school for dinner, i used to hate eating of their plates.
Me and my boyfriend had a huuuuge argument because while on holiday, i took my own pillow, and he accidently dropped it on the floor and i went mad at him and i turned the pillowcase inside out. He thinks im mad!

Skip Service · 06-13-2006, 12:11 PM

How Dare He! Kill him!