Contamination at uni

[davida9006Participant]

I’m an undergraduate and I may have OCD and it became super severe this March and I have loads of compulsions related to keeping my flat clean as I’m so anxious about getting an infection and for ages I felt I couldn’t go back to uni. Then, I finally went back I lasted just over 6 weeks before I came back to the flat permanently. I was scared of staying at uni because someone could contaminate my room. But ever since I got back I’ve felt so depressed. I feel scared to eat at home and I lost the social interactions. So, people with OCD have you had a similar situation and how did you cope?

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Hi:

Forum moderators here; we’re sorry you haven’t had many replies yet. Please don’t take this personally or ever think you’re alone. It may just be that forum users are taking a bit of  time to consider how to reply and support you.

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