Cost of Contamination

 
By: gollyoly
Mood: Don't know
Date: June 26, 2012
Music: None

Do ocd people with the contamination problem worry about the cost of their problem ? My wife does not allow my son and I to do very much of anything and I thinkthat is because she knowes that if we do something out in the public that means more clean up for her. I think another reason we do very little is it cost money to do stuff and she is affraid that she willnot have the money to buy her cleaning supplies . I buy over a $100 in cleaning supplies a WEEK . I figured that she has spent around $50,000 in the last 15 years . She also has ocpd which I think prevents her from seeking . How can I convince her to get help , what can I say so that she will listen to me . Thumbs up .

2 Comments
  1. kawilli96 12 years ago

    That is a tough call. If you point out all of the things that your son is missing out on because of her ocd, that may make it worse. It does for me anyway. We are well aware of what the ocd is holding us back from doing but are not able to do anything about it. I have contamination fears myself and it seems like it only gets worse when something like that is pointed out to me. It is very expensive because with mine, if I touch something and I have touched something I deem “contaminated” and then I touch something else, I throw it away. Or since my husband and I lived in an apartment about 5 years ago and there was a drug raid in the apartment above us (nice place, I know!), we have had to pretty much get rid of everything in our house that we brought from the apartment because it is contaminated to me. So that has been really expensive. I finally got fed up with it a few months ago, and thought this is not how I want to live and I want to enjoy life and I cannot do that right now. So I decided to seek help. My husband and family have been after me for quite some time now about seeking help and I wouldn’t do it. I had to be ready. I am hoping for all of you, she decides she doesn’t want to do it anymore and gets help. Good luck! :) 

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  2. fireball 11 years ago

    I ended up forceing my husband to go otherwise he would have been on his own. My son and I could not have coped anymore. We could do nothing and it was holding my son back as he has disabilities. He went to the doctor with me and let me do some of the talking. He was still in denial about having ocd but the doctor was brilliant and he was given medication and after a few weeks he went back and saw the doctor himself. Life is still hard a lot of the times but he has some good days now. He would never have been ready he says had I not have forced the issue. Six years or more on and the medication has given him back some of this life he says. He cannot live without it – he has tried.  I hope things improve for you and your son. Life is so short

     

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