As some of you may know through my posts, I suffer from truly severe germaphobia. It is actually getting worse, and it is seriously affecting my day to day life, but, I somehow muddle through. I also love animals, and I have had cats most of my adult life. We now have a beautiful tortie, 6 years old, who has regular vet exams, and is up to all of her needed shots. My husband and I are very loving and responsible pet people. However, since my germapobia related OCD has worsened, I rarely pet her, and when I do ( because I really want to), I wash my hands after. So, last night she was sleeping at my feet, and when I stirred, she got up, started bumping her head against my hand, and licked my fingers couple of times. I fell asleep again, thinking: first thing I wake up is to wash my hands. But I got up at dawn to pee, and I did that without washing my hands ( I forgot, was half asleep). Now I am worried that when I gently wiped myself with toilet paper, I could have somehow infected myself with something - how or what, I have no idea, and deep inside I feel it is impossible. I also understand that people infect themselves mostly with oral route, and I have trained myself NEVER to touch my face without thinking before if my hands had touched something " suspicious" before.
So, could I have infected myself by gently wiping with toilet tissue after peeing? I just want to stop thinking about this, it is ( again) ruining the another whole day for me. I am so incredibly tired of this. Thank you all in advance