Hi Sani, Thank you so much for your email, Its nice to talk to people who know
what I'm going through my friends and family try their hardest to understand but
I know in my heart that they must just think pull yourself together girl and get
on with it!!!!. I watched that prog the other night too it was really
interesting I can totally relate to the girl with contamination and washing
obbsessions. Just like you I am constantly worrying about what I am touching and
where I have been. I shower anything up to eight times a day and wash my hair
about five times each shower one day it will all fall out lol. Have been taking
a drug called lustral for the last five weeks and it does seem to be working my
anxiety levels are coming down and I get counciling once a week so hopefully one
day I can be where you are and think sod it!!!!
Anyway it would be nice to hear from you again.
Thanks Sam

Sani <sanismail@...> wrote:
Hi Sam,
You are defiantly NOT alone!! In fact there are thousands of us out there!
My OCD is Contamination fears so I also have to do a lot of washing,
especially my hands after touching this , that and the other! Lol. I do have
some control over mine now though, but it has taken me a long time to get to
this stage. I take medication - Prozac and Lofepramine and can honestly say
these have helped me, they take the edge off my fears, and that horrible
feeling of complete dread that I used to experience if something worried me.
Now if something worries me, I just think ok, well I'll deal with it, what
needs to be done and I can usually reduce the amount I have to do to feel
less anxious by putting it off for a while. So if I think I need to wash my
hair because of something or take a shower I put it off until later, then
when later comes I can mostly convince myself that what happened to make me
anxious wasn't such a big deal after all and just wash my hands or wet my
hair without having a complete shower. It's with me all the time though and
I think it always will be.
hugs Sani
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Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 11:11 AM
Subject: [The Obsessively Clean Den] hello out there!!!!!


> hello, my name is sam and i have been suffering with ocd for the past
> four years, my problems are compulsive washing and checking.
> i would really like to talk to people who are suffering from the same
> problems as sometimes i feel so alone in my own crazy world.
> thanks
> sam
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