If I can get over this stumbling block I mite just make progress..

[tazbomb]

Hi I hope you can help me.  Hopefully then I can move on n try get better.  I suffer with ocd and an irrational fear ( so I'm told its irrational) of hiv.  I would really appreciate if you could help me out with my query so I can get clarification on the matter and hopefully ease my stress levels as I'm 20 weeks pregnant! If clothes were to come into contact with the HIV virus via blood, and then they were in the laundry basket before they were washed, if it had rubbed off onto the basket, can the HIV virus then live in the laundry basket and be passed onto other clothes? Similarly if someone unawares touched something contaminated and then touched other things, e.g a handbag, has the virus then spread onto the handbag and can that person then spread the virus onto other objects? I would really appreciate if you could give me good clarification on these worries as i am in constant fear of the HIV virus living on objects that may have come into contact with infected blood.

[warriorromeo]

Actually i did not over come it till now.But after struggling a lot things are better now.As time passes these things will become a lot easier than before.But It might come back in another form and make u mad in future.

Some say CBT is good for OCD.But you need to have perfect counceller for those thing.It did not work for me.

THE BEST WAY TO GET OUT OF THESE THINGS IS SELF DETERMINATION.MOTIVATING HIMSELF AND MOVING ON IS THE BEST AND PERMINENT OPTION.YOU NEED TO DO THAT WITHOUT STRESS.A PART OF YOUR THOUGHT KNOWS THAT THESE ARE UNREAL.YOU NEED TO BRING THAT THOUGHT MORE AND MORE IN PRACTICAL LIFE.BUT DONT STRESS YOUR SELF DURING THIS PROCESS.

AS YOU DO THIS  CONTINUESLY IN A PROPER MANNER WITH THE PASSING TIME YOU WILL BE ALRIGHT.

[tazbomb]

Thank you warriorromeo, I feel like like I'm goin insane half the time and now that I'm off my medication because of the pregnancy it's even harder, I tried therapy before but it didn't wrk, I'm determined to change things but I just keep failing.  Have u any advice about how u overcame it?

[warriorromeo]

You cannot have HIV with all the above things u mentioned.HIV simply does not transmit that way.Ur having OCD thoughts about HIV and you dont have a HIV concern at all.Even iam a OCD sufferer and have been strugging with these thought over several years.They are unreal thoughts which makes us stucked in too these unreal fears.i have lost a lot good things becoz of this OCD in life from studies to Jobs.Dont let these things ruin your life.Leave it alone and it will go after some time.Jus carry on with your normal life