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Are there types of Mysophobia?

Postby Oceana27 » Thu Aug 21, 2014 6:31 pm

Hi, Im 16 and have been struggling with what I think my be mysophobia but i'm not sure. I'v done online searching but I have not been able to find an answer. I have no more problems with dirt and door handles ect. than the next person but I have severe issues with how clean my food is. I have anxiety eating anywhere but home cause I feel the person didnt wash everything properly and that they got hair or bugs and germs in it, you get the gist.

I pretty much cant eat what I didnt see prepared. I grew up a very picky eater but not as bad as I am now. When I was 9 my mom (who was a chef) told me something gross about seafood and I have not eaten it since, even the smell now makes me feel sick. I used to love seafood. Once I read that almost all food you buy has rat hair/poop or bugs and stuff in it so since then I havent been able to eat anything like candy bars, peanut butter, chips ect. cause I feel its dirty. I used to eat fast food until I read how dirty it can be and havent ate it in 6 years. My family likes to eat outside but I just cant do it. I see all the bugs and dirt around and I feel like its getting in my food so I have to go eat inside. Sometimes I will just randomly deem something not good and just mentally cant eat it.

Iv done that with hotdogs (pretty much all pork really) and corned beef, stuffing and other random things. When I get clean dishes out of the cabinet I reclean them before I use them. These are just some examples. My family gives me an extremely hard time about and make me feel very stupid and get mad at me when they cant make food for me or take me out to eat. They say I ruin theyre plans and am being difficult on purpose and selfish. I just want to get over this. My dad used to try to force me to eat stuff and that made it much worse.Some of the stuff he forced on me I was okay with but because of the way he did it I cant eat it anymore. I was okay with salad but I cant even stand a bite of it anymore cause hed punish me severely if I didnt eat it. Can someone please tell me what i'm dealing with and how to treat it?
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