Is it normal that i have ocd and really want a relationship?

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Hi, I have a serious case of OCD. Pretty much everything in the house is completely infected but my room.

I have never had a girlfriend in my city, but I really want a relationship. I want a companion, or significant other.

I could get one, but the thing holding me back is that everything is infected in my house. Some thing outside. How am I supposed to have a gf if I can barely make my way to the bathroom??

So that is why I don't have a gf and the only thing that I see as I shouldent have one yet. Is it normal that I think this way?

If you guys could mabey help me out I would apprieciate it. Alright, I can't wait to read your comments :)

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  • Shackleford96
    12 years ago

    Obsessive compulsive DISORDER and Germaphobia are two COMPLETELY different things.

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    • ToddStellar
      12 years ago

      I agree, it doesn't sound like OCD. Though, it is keeping you away from having a relationship.
      Find a way to tone it down, find other people that are going through the same thing and see how they manage it. Maybe you will find someone just like you.

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  • EdsBitchX
    12 years ago

    I started developing OCD when I was 16 and struggled with it for around 9 years before I started to be able to deal with it. Before that I just seemed unstable...

    It wasn't germaphobia, per se, that I had, but I had to have everything in my house exactly 5cm apart, had to do certain things like switching things on/washing my hands 5 times each and I had to have the volume on my stereo at intervals of 5, among other things.

    It wasn't like I thought my family was going to die if I didn't or something, but things just had to be a certain way and that was that.

    My current boyfriend found it difficult to deal with when we first moved in together because I'd go off my head if he moved anything, but the fact we've lived together for 7 years tells me it's not as difficult as you'd think for someone else to come to terms with.

    You, however, might find it difficult to be in a relationship with someone because of the "infections" she'll be carrying, but if you want to get into a proper relationship you'll just have to learn to deal with it.

    Good luck.

    EB x

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  • Dizzee
    12 years ago

    Move into my house, clean it. Then we'll talk about going out.

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  • jesusdiedlol
    12 years ago

    1000dogs is right

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  • noatomsk
    12 years ago

    Shackleford96 is right.

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  • 1000Dogs
    12 years ago

    Echoing the germ phobia sentiment. I'd recommend dealing with that first. A couple good things to work with as starting thoughts would be A. Your body is fantastically effective at eliminating foreign bodies, and you should start reading up on how it does it; and B. Before you became aware of germs, you lived your life without worrying about that sort of thing and didn't have anything incredibly horrible happen to you because of them (given that you are still alive now).

    Either way, consider seeking help from loved ones and/or professionals about it. You need to be able to move about uninhibited before social needs can really be satisfied. After that, you'll meet people just fine and you'll have an entirely new set of interesting problems to deal with.

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  • Solophonic
    12 years ago

    They often overlap each other even though they are two separate conditions. And you're going to need a full body condom to go on dates ;)

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