Chemical contamination
Hi all. I’m new to this group. Does anyone else have OCD based around chemicals? I’ve been suffering with it for about 3.5 years (it started post partum).
I improved last year after 3 months of CBT but it’s come back as we‘ve started to need to do some renovations on the house and there‘s loads of decisions around products. I obsessively research and never find enough to reasssurance that chemicals will be safe. Everything seems toxic and if there‘s smells or dust, I spiral and feel like we‘re all being poisoned slowly.
I keep cancelling the tradespeople coming in, and my husband is losing his mind because he doesn’t know how to help me anymore.
I have started setraline for the first time this week and hoping that will help me just expose myself to these things and move on.
I am not sure why I am posting here. just looking for people going through something similar, and for some hope that one day feel like this