not ocd???(handwashing)

[afraid213]

i've heard alot about people obsessively washing their hands and using germ x and what not.....im not like that....i only wash my hands after i use the bathroom and before i eat...but it doesnt really have anything to do with my emet, its just hygenic.....i've never obsessively washed my hands...anybody else not like that???

[harmonygirl72]

Yeah, I only wash my hands after the bathroom or if I get them dirty for some reason. I don't even necessarily wash them before I eat. I know, you'll all think I'm gross!

[abbi]

I used to be more relaxed like this, but my OCD has gotten a lot worse recently.

[yinyang79]

Actually, I was my hands before going to the bathroom and after. Before I eat I either was or use Germ-X. However, being a teacher, I would use that Germ-X constantly through out the day. Those kids are real bad about hygiene.

[alxndriamrqtt1]

I'm not like that at all! I wash my hands after the store and the bathroom. Sometimes I was my hands before I eat, but that's only if I know I've been touching something dirty. I do get stomach aches often (probably IBS) but I rarely gets colds or anything else (hopefully it stays that way!) Lol

[olschesky]

i'm not a big hand washer either........and i clean dirty, germy apartments after college students move out.......only wash my hands when i get home........plus i'm a smoker so my hands touch the cigs that go in my mouth........

for some reason (thankfully) i don't obsess about my hands....

[EmR]

I always wash my hands after going to the bathroom and before eating but I was at one point washing my hands much more often - to the point when I had sore all over my hands because my skin was so dry that it was splitting. It wasn't fun!

[abbi]

Yeah, my hands used to be that way. The skin was chapped and red raw, and would bleed constantly. Then I started on Citalopram, and it helped heaps.

[EmR]

I use an eczma and psoriasis cream and that has help with the cracked bleeding skin but my skin is always slightly dry.