I hate the "oh ocd is washing your hands a lot lmao" trope a lot especially because i have really bad contamination anxiety and yeah i do wash my hands a lot. If my hands touch something between washing my hands and eating—I'm talking the silverware drawer, the table, any doors or light switches (both of which i clean religiously), my skin, my clothes, the container the food was/is in—I will wash my hands. I wash my hands 30-40 times a day. I know contamination anxiety is the tropey ocd thing to the point where people ignore the actual psychological aspects but it is fucking DIFFICULT.













