Contamination

[love_and_truthiness]

Hi, I'm new here . I just discovered this website, because I'm researching Emetophobia. I've had emet ever since I can remember, but I think I'm improving a great deal, but I still have a way to go. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone was experiencing the same thing I am.

Recently, I've noticed that I treat certain thoughts or ideas like they are contaminated. Like, I'll remember a TV show that had a certain view that I disagreed with, then the actors in it will become "tainted". I won't see those actors in a positive light anymore, and they may go to contaminate another show or movie they might be in.

I realized that I treated these ideas like I would treat a shirt I wore when somebody was sick. Anything that touched the shirt would, by extension, become harmful.

Now that I'm aware of it, I'm trying to stop it, because it's irrational, like the phobia.

I hope that made some amount of sense. Has anyone experienced something like this? Thanks.

[olschesky]

i've done it with clothes that i've worn when i was sick, or shows iwatched that day or that date at all.....hope that makes sense.......seems us emets have great memories.....when it comes to being sick

[precious]

HI, I am new, but I wanted to respond to this because I to go through this and I thought I was alone. I have a few shirts that I cannot wear anymore. I thought of this as superstitious. It really is a shame because I really like those close and only got to wear them once.

[love_and_truthiness]

Yeah, I remember discarding good clothes ( I know, it's bad!), but I felt that, even though I washed them, they were still "contaminated".
I agree totally, we do have good memory, for negative things like sickness.
I get really bad sometimes about contamination. Once I got sick when a certain song was on TV, and I've always hated that song since I heard it then.
Sometimes I form "chains of contamination". Sometimes when I get home from school, I feel like I'm covered in germs, because I was around people. Then, when I touch the remote, that becomes germy, and then if I touch something else after touching the remote, THAT becomes germy. It's so annoying. I always wash my hands a million times after school. Can you imagine all the wasted brain-power I've spent on stupid stuff like that?

[precious]

Yes, I go through the same thing, I keep disinfectant wipes around and wipe everything down that others or myself touch when I feel it becomes germy and I use a lot of lysol. Last night my daughter was laying next to me in bed watching tv and playing on the computer she was sniffling and touching the computer so when she went to bed I wiped it down with the wipes and felt so bad afterwards because she is my little girl and I love her so much.

[xinsidethefirex]

My friend got drunk and v* on my sofa and floor. It was horrible and I saw some of it, I was trapped in the corner with my fingers in my ears and crying :S but luckily I have a very nice friend and bf who cleaned up before I could look! Anyway I can't sit on that bt of the sofa even though it is clean and turned over and I cannot sit on the floor.

[ginger_pie]

I am very simelar as well. If I watch a movie and later that night I get sick then I cant watch the movie again. That happened when I was having a sleepover with a close friend and she *v in my bathroom and after she did she drank water from my favorite cup. Now I never drink from that cup anymore and I could not use that bathroom for weeks!

[Rebecca85]

I'm not quite that bad withclothes and stuff, probably because I know that they haven't been touched by v, but I did have to redecorate the bathroom after my boyfriend v'ed because we used to have carpet in there, and it had a bit of pattern in it and I kept thinking it was v (even though he shampooed the carpet and I hoovered and shampooed it again).