I can't remember what I wrote before it was deleted.
Basically I'm scared someone will see how bad it is here and call Child Protective Services or something. I can't lose my girls. I love them more than anything but even that isn't enough to make me clean the house up.
A friend offered to help me but I don't want her to see how bad it is so I said no.
It's overwhelming. There's just too much of it. I want to do it. It's like I just physically can't.
I always thought having OCD meant your house would be spotless all the time. But even though I have a fear of germs I cannot do it. It's that fear of germs that makes it worse - I'm scared to clean incase I get something or find something like roaches. I'm scared of bugs esp. spiders, maggots, roaches.
My husband wants to help but he's working full time and he doesn't have the energy when he comes home plus in the weekends we usually have other things to do eg the grocery shopping and normal housework eg washing so we have no more time than during the week. Plus the kids get in the way and it's hard to leave them unsupervised because they get into trouble eg my 4 year old just scratched our new LCD TV screen on Tuesday morning when I was showering. We can't take our eyes off them. And my mum won't babysit both of them at the same time... says it's too hard.
