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Old Sep 11, 2017, 07:43 AM
Maxon E Maxon E is offline
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My mother washes her hands too many times for a long gap of time. I don't think she has other signs of OCD. She's naturally organized person but this kind of mental illness thing started about 10 years ago.
It's getting worse as time goes by. According to her, in 2000s a disease caused by dirt spread and that's when she became too much worried about it. Now, she categorize almost all the things in home to clean, normal, dirty, too dirty... And she always have to wash her hands before touching sth cleaner. Even more, she tell us to do that way too. She washes her hand almost for 10 minutes if she has touched sth dirty. And it takes hours for her to prepare for shower. Our parents fight just because of this many times. We all know she's not okay. But we just can't tell her the truth. When we care about her, she thinks of this as an insult.
Moreover, I'm becoming like her day by day by following those rules. When I wash my hands, I usually feels like it's not clean enough which makes me afraid. I don't want to live like her. Any help?

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