Contamination OCD is one of the most debilitating OCD themes because it can get out of control pretty quickly.
When OCD tells you that you cannot touch something it starts an avalanche of rules and hypervigilance that can take over your life.
Contamination OCD can put you on a hamster wheel of tracking what you touched, what other things touched and how contaminated things have become.
Sometimes you can get so buried in OCD’s rules and compulsions that you forget what even started this chaos.
What is your contamination ground zero? What is OCD truly threatening you with? When you discover the ground zero of your contamination OCD, you can do exposures that get to the heart of the beast.
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