food items not sealed weird obsession - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Message Board

JAZ87 · 07-05-2006, 07:46 PM

hey...
this might sound kinda weird but maybe some people can relate. Okay well, i've had this weird obsession for awhile... If a food item isn't sealed I just can't seem to eat it, (well i've gotten better now i eat it and then obsess about it being poisoned?!)
Today i bought a small container of Godiva icecream....when i got home and opened it I found that it didn't have the plastic seal over the top--(i think that's normal?) i forced myself to still have a couple bites, telling myself how insane that was...but now im obsessing over the chance of it being poisoned,.....haha i know how outrageous this sounds lol does anyone else do this????

steveo23 · 07-06-2006, 09:24 AM

Hey

Yeah, I used to have similar problems, and still do surrounding food (especially when Im out drinking, fear of it being spiked). It all ties in with the oh so common contamination obsession. Its really good that you forced yourself to have just a little though.

Again, is just a fear of a possibilty that it MAY be poisoned or contaminated, however unlikely. It happens, but not a lot, and its the fact that it COULD happen which worries us and fuels the OCD. The best us completely perfect OCD'ers (and being perfect is our problem) can do is accept the risk, like everybody else does. I know this type of OCD can be unbearable though. Any type of OCD demands absolute certainty about risks and fears, but the world just does not contain zero risk. Ive made a fool out of myself so many times. Ive felt so ill in the past after eating something I considered to be "unsanitary", only to work out that I was feeling ill because of the anxiety surrounding my contamination fears.

GeorgiaM · 07-16-2006, 07:21 PM

I'm new here. And yup that surely has happened to me. It also happens sometimes when I drinking at the bar. For awhile I used to think it was because my mom had always said to never ever leave your drink alone. When that happens I force myself to eat or drink what ever I think might be contaminated because I know it's just my OCD and I have pure anxiety until I realize i'm alright.

Georgia

Punkdizzle · 07-16-2006, 07:44 PM

oh my yes! i am the same way.. i can not buy or eat food that isnt sealed.. (well i can eat it if someone i know opened it but not if it came from the store that way) even then sometimes i have a little trouble... my big obsession is if i am buying food in a bag i have to squeeze it to make sure their is air in it to make sure it is sealed.. or when i am buying things in jars i have to check the pop top lid before i will buy it.. makes shopping take a while and it really annoys me that i cant just toss whatever in the cart without thinking twice about it like i see so many people do..