Hi Sam :0)
You'll get there hon!
You are off to a great start and have taken the major step by getting help!
I still wash my hands quite a lot but mostly just once then leave rather
than doing it repetitively like I was attached to the sink by a rubber band!
What is it in particular that frightens you? It's ok, if you can't say it,
just wondered.
With some people it's Germs or types of illnesses, in my case it's certain
cleaning substances, because of where I used to work.
What kind of counselling do you go to, is it CBT?
Hugs Sani



----- Original Message -----
From: "samantha williams" <samerd79@...>
To: <theobsessivelycleanden@...>
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: [The Obsessively Clean Den] hello out there!!!!!


> 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sam" <samerd79@...>
> To: <theobsessivelycleanden@...>
> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 11:11 AM
> Subject: [The Obsessively Clean Den] hello out there!!!!!
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>> 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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