Contamination

[Sugarie]

I'm not scared of getting sick myself, only of other people doing it. The thing is, that if they do, I feel like both they and the area they've thrown up in is "contaminated" and I can't bring myself to go near them or it. This leads to a bunch of weird behaviour like avoiding that seat in the car, or that spot on the floor, or that bathroom until a "safe" period of time has passed. It's not that I fear catching it, because I don't care about that, it's just that it's contaminated and scary still because the sick was there.. and they might do it again. Does anyone else have that problem? I'm better with people getting sick in the "proper" place ie. the toilet, and I have hysterics if they use a sink where I have to brush my teeth or wash my hands. It seems so wrong to do it any other place and it makes the "contamination" worse.
This contamination thing used to hurt my ex-boyfriend's feelings when I wouldn't let him come anywhere near me afterwards, and he thought I didn't care about him at all because I'd desert him at a moments hint that he didn't feel well. "In sickness and in health" just doesn't seem to apply here and he couldn't understand that it wasn't him that I was avoiding... Can anyone else relate to this??

[sage]

I was basically like that! Now I never think of it.


Hey where are you in Canada - I'm in Vancouver area.

[6pksummer]

I am totally like that!! If someone gets sick at work, wether it be in the bathroom in a toilet, or on the floor, I avoid it like the plague! I won't walk over that spot for a min. of a week, same thing with the bathroom. Won't use it! I know how you feel, I hate it! I also watch all the time where I am walking...drives me nuts!

[crimgoddess]

I used to be EXACTLY like that! When I was a kid, I would refuse to wear an outfit that I wore when I threw up, or something that may have come in contact with someone else's vomit. I would refuse to sit on the left side of the backseat in my dad's car because my brother got sick there once. I would even avoid areas of the carpet where someone was sick years ago, and there weren't any visible stains!


I have found that I have gotten a lot better over the years....but for me my main problem is being around my boyfriend after he has vomitted. He will want to cuddle, or give me a kiss, and it just grosses me out! I'm going to have to work on that- because what is vomit anyway? Broken-down food and stomach acid? Why should I let that come between me and the person I am in love with?


I totally understand where you are coming from.


*amber*

[sneezymonkey]

Yup, that sounds like me too! I'm not bothered about myself v*ing really just other people!


A few years ago my mum took some friends of hers home in the car after a New Year pub celebration & the bloke v*ed in the back seat.. near where my sons car seat usually was. I wouldn't go in the car for weeks & putting my son in there was out of the question (even though she'd scrubbed & disinfectedthe carVERY well)


After about 3 weeks I finally allowed myself to go in there with rubber gloves, mask & old clothes (to throw away) & cleaned the back seat myself. I felt much better after i'd cleaned the 'contamination' zone myself & allowed my son back into the car.. My mum never knew my emet was so bad until then.. I hid it well.. now she just thinks i'm a bit strange... [img]smileys/smilies_06.gif[/img]

[sassenacch]

i always avoid a bathroom if i know someone got sick in it - even if i know they've bleached it down (which, i have an extremely understanding roommate, she knows i need the bathroom to be cleaned WELL) but at work, you just don't know.