Danielle Jhiani explains contamination OCD, which can involve germs or intrusive thoughts about contamination. Recovery requires exposure and response prevention: facing feared situations without doing compulsions, which retrains your brain to reduce fear over time.
Contamination. OCD shows up in many ways physically contaminated with germs or bodily fluids. Sometimes you feel contaminated in your thoughts and your feelings. This your reactions to these intrusive thoughts that's causing this. Retraining your brain away from this response can change your life drastically. When you start to expose yourself to your discomforts, when without doing compulsions, you're gonna go, oh, I didn't have to do that compulsion. My fear based thoughts didn't come true, discomfort fades away and you start to build comfort. In these situations, any of the things that are bothering you right now will and can stop bothering you. The real method has a foundation of erp, but additional techniques that got me to and keep me in the lifetime recovery stage. You can live a life free of OCD.
