People may remember I worried about my letter box as my mum put an envelope through it and I worried it had been near the bin. I ended up getting a new door but it’s been contaminated already as a parcel man has put my neighbours parcel in the wheelie bin and put a slip through the door so now I am worried about that letter box as he never obviously washed his hands so the germs are on the letter box? Can I add cleaning with these issues only helps 1% I feel the door is tainted and my items coming in the door will be dirty. My compulsion last time was to click and collect my post rather than it coming via the letter box?
Amazon driver tainted my front door
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I know it won't help you any at all. But people handle bins every day of the week. Then use those same hands to do other things. There is nothing wrong with those people at all. They are not sick / ill just because they touched a wheelie bin and then went on as normal. I am not sure if you imagine you are come down with something just because a person touches a wheelie bin first? Do you think you will get sick from this? All the bin men out there. Never heard of any of them getting sick because of the job they do. They handle thousands of bins a day.
No it’s not the germs or getting sick. It’s something being spoiled or tainted or if I see it happen. Bins and touching something I want to dispose of it. If a postman touches a bin and I don’t see it wouldn’t bother me it’s only when I see it happen. So yeah I mean the deliver touched my neighbours letterbox so they will get stuff via a dirty letter box too. They don’t have ocd so no issue and the guy went on to deliver 100’s of parcels maybe? So yeah I realise the germs have spread but it’s more about me. All I can think about is stuff coming in the door being dirty now?
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if you were to clean the door and the letterbox? That would get rid of any germs at all. Again I don't even think suggesting this will help you. Because the whole idea is in your mind by now. Even if you did clean it ten times, it would more be the mind, not the door. The door could be scrubbed clean and that would mean nothing to you at all. It is the mind that needs changing. The possibily of germs spreading the way you imagine the might do. To the normal mind this would not happen. Is just the OCD mind. Until you get help for that, things will always be as they are right now.