Thread: I Hate OCD
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Old Mar 14, 2008, 05:02 PM
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Sing, maybe just stay at your current level of washing for a while. You have made some progress. Maybe your brain needs more time to get used to only washing once, and pretty soon it will feel OK. I also think you have done great to reduce your washing and it seems to me you are within "normal" washing levels. Whatever that means! Maybe you have cut back enough and can move on to bigger fish to fry?

I had an instance in therapy recently where my T gave me an orange to eat. I peeled it and ate it and my hands got all sticky. I hate the feeling of sticky-orange hands, and if I were at home, I would have washed immediately. T also ate an orange and I used him as my "normal" model--he didn't seem to feel a strong need to get up and go wash his hands to get "unsticky" (or he hid it well!), so I controlled myself and just sat there for the rest of the session with sticky hands. I survived.
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