laurenmk
28-09-16, 08:20
I HATE glass. I hate it. I live in constant fear that it will break. I can't even count the number of pieces of clothing I've thrown out for fear they had broken glass on them. Most of the time, it's not even something like a wine glass breaking. Rather it's this idea that there are minuscule pieces that I can't see, which freaks me out much more than a large broken piece I can clearly see.
I'm trying really hard right now to stop worrying about what happened today. I was going into an office that has a frameless glass door and at first I thought it was locked. I pushed. I pulled. Nothing. Someone inside saw me and said, "Push hard". I did, and was able to enter. He informed me that the door had "shifted" and was sticking.
That was it for me. In my mind, the door is sticking/rubbing glass on glass and little pieces were falling when I opened it to enter and opened it to exit. I would usually throw away my clothes in such a scenario, but since I'm trying to stand up to my OCD, I instead just washed them. Well, I've inadvertently caused an even greater panic in myself because now I feel like I've spread the broken glass all over the washer, which will then spread it over the rest of my clothes from here until eternity.
Now, the rational part of my mind has told me several things:
1. No one else entering or exiting that office today gave it a second thought. If no one else is worried, I shouldn't be either.
2. I casually got close enough to the door to examine it more closely, and from what I could see there was a steady gap from the bottom to the top between the glass of the door itself (the part that moved) and the glass of the rest of the entry way that stayed stationary. Since there is a metal at the top (presumably how it locks), the sticking was mostly likely metal on metal and there wasn't any glass involved. I just can't be sure because I couldn't examine it very long without looking like a nutter.
3. Interior doors like that are surely made from tempered glass, which is harder to break and I don't think could or would have small little shavings come off of it. If it was stressed to the point of having any of it break, then all of it break. I just don't know this for sure.
Despite these attempts at logical thinking and rational thought, I am just spinning with worry. Any advice? Thank you!
I'm trying really hard right now to stop worrying about what happened today. I was going into an office that has a frameless glass door and at first I thought it was locked. I pushed. I pulled. Nothing. Someone inside saw me and said, "Push hard". I did, and was able to enter. He informed me that the door had "shifted" and was sticking.
That was it for me. In my mind, the door is sticking/rubbing glass on glass and little pieces were falling when I opened it to enter and opened it to exit. I would usually throw away my clothes in such a scenario, but since I'm trying to stand up to my OCD, I instead just washed them. Well, I've inadvertently caused an even greater panic in myself because now I feel like I've spread the broken glass all over the washer, which will then spread it over the rest of my clothes from here until eternity.
Now, the rational part of my mind has told me several things:
1. No one else entering or exiting that office today gave it a second thought. If no one else is worried, I shouldn't be either.
2. I casually got close enough to the door to examine it more closely, and from what I could see there was a steady gap from the bottom to the top between the glass of the door itself (the part that moved) and the glass of the rest of the entry way that stayed stationary. Since there is a metal at the top (presumably how it locks), the sticking was mostly likely metal on metal and there wasn't any glass involved. I just can't be sure because I couldn't examine it very long without looking like a nutter.
3. Interior doors like that are surely made from tempered glass, which is harder to break and I don't think could or would have small little shavings come off of it. If it was stressed to the point of having any of it break, then all of it break. I just don't know this for sure.
Despite these attempts at logical thinking and rational thought, I am just spinning with worry. Any advice? Thank you!