Do any of you consider how gross the world is around us?

[Anonymous]

I've noticed that I have had an increase in ocd after COVID happened. Things I had never considered have now entered my mind, and it's really driving me crazy. I realize we are essentially living in filth as human beings. I never realized how we essentially spit when we talk, even when we're just talking normally. I never knew that until they started talking about the spread of COVID. Now I picture basically spitting food particles at each other every time we talk. I was also made aware of how much a toilet sprays into the air when we flush. I don't know how others don't find that absolutely disgusting. Even if the lid is closed, the toilet will still spray through the cracks. Essentially, we are covered in feces and urine particles and then go walk around our houses. I also realized that people don't really wash their hands well and will shake people's hands and touch shared objects. I don't know how anyone can live with this other than simply being ignorant of it. Does anyone else feel the same way, or do I need to go see an OCD specialist?

I've considered the same things. Its gross.

This is OCD

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

If you think about it, everything is disgusting, but that’s also just normal. If you ever read the short story “They’re Mad Out Of Meat” by Terry Bison, it makes your own flesh feel disgusting just to talk about yourself that way. It’s all about perspective. I understand that controlling your own thoughts is incredibly difficult with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder but something worth noting is that every human in the world is covered in microscopic mites. They live on your body your whole life, you can never wash them off, and they stay with you for several of their generations all the way until your death. If you live with family, you’ve probably gotten some of their mites too. And you know what? It doesn’t hurt, it doesn’t kill you, if anything those mites are keeping you alive. Germs strengthen our immune system, and unless you’re living under an active infestation of some kind in your home where you see bugs running away at the flick of a light switch en masse, your home is safe, and so is anyone else’s. The world will always have gross things in it, and there is no reason to assume everything will kill you or that everything is disgusting. It’s not. It’s normal.

[Curiousbenjamin90]

Microbiomes also keep us healthy, germs and bacteria are good and bad - yin and yang, like everything else.

[BarryLiverstone]

Nope

[seeyounexttuesday]

Time to grow up and stop being a little bitch.

[Ariesman81]

@seeyounexttuesday

😂 What's going on buddy?

[Asker]

You're 61 Years old and giving input to an online question blog for people 30 and even 45 years younger than you... yikes.

[seeyounexttuesday]

Your fake account says you're 36-45, I'd settle down a bit.

[Asker]

36 would be nearly 30 years younger than you, like I said. Thats the problem with the world today. Whether I'm right or wrong, people can never understand someone else's point of view and respond with empathy, even though they are not going through it themselves. Typical.

[seeyounexttuesday]

Eh, sometimes you gotta stop being a bitch.

[Asker]

And sometimes you gotta realize you probably shouldn't have created this account in your 50s to talk to people half your age. Creepy.

[seeyounexttuesday]

aw cupcake. you're trying so hard.