Re: Can anybody recommend a wash basket?
You are still here repeating the same cycle because you refuse to learn to live with these painful intrusive thoughts. Everyone with an anxiety disorder/depression will suffer with unwanted thoughts. I do myself. But in reacting to them you reinforce them further. Of course your brain cannot handle fearing "every" contamination scenario, just as it's not possible for a hypochondriac to fear every known disease simultaneously. Instead, health anxiety will focus on a couple or so illnesses at a time. It's the way our brains handle stress - ie, a protection mechanism. Otherwise, we'd literally go insane.
You must accept that these painful and uncomfortable thoughts will not simply "go". That will only happen when you have learned to live with and challenge these thoughts instead of running off and buying something new to replace a "contaminated" item or packaging off your future kid to live with someone else because it might puke or shit on your "new" clothes
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