“I have a huge awareness for germs, and the thought of a cat who steps in LITTER! And on floors that are not super clean all the time and etc and etc, it drives me crazy imagining it on my bed.”source ↗

“I feel super bad because he’s VERY VERY young and is very lonely all the time.”source ↗

“I’ll play with him for a bit but I’m also allergic to cats lol, i sneeze and my airways close a bit so I wheeze and my eyes will burn if I touch the cat with my hands after petting so it’s just a bunch of stuff that’s making me anxious”source ↗

“I just don’t know what to do. She won’t give him away but she’s never home, and so it’s up to me, the one with major germ ocd, to spend time with him.”source ↗

“I’m only mainly stressed because I feel like cats are dirty and I can’t calm down.”source ↗

“I know :( This definitely isn’t the first time I’m asked someone about this, I asked it earlier on another subreddit and it got deleted for that reason.”source ↗

“I can get really freaked out at the thought of what could have come in contact with it and have hid it away in a cupboard out of my own anxiety.”source ↗

“I get random extreme anxiety about things I have bought from the store and used my self because what if I contaminated it with raw chicken last week”source ↗

“I opened the dryer to see if it was empty because i knew my cousin washed and dried the rugs. I immediately saw a folded bandaid near the lint trap/ door. I was disgusted and irritated.”source ↗

“Anyways i immediately panicked and i wanted to cry.”source ↗

“i also have multiple small wounds on my hands due to constant hand washing.”source ↗

“One of my biggest fears is fiberglass contamination, and since then, we would find little silvery threads on our clothes in the wash and they were stuck in the dryer lint tray forever.”source ↗

“Only a few times when my mom asked me to remove the cover from the dryer for her did I recall feeling itchiness, but I never got a rash.”source ↗

“In a panic at the time I totally shut down and refused to leave my bed for most things for the next three years and it practically ruined my life”source ↗

“Anyway, in the time since I had a total relapse in my anxieties after recovering for a while and started asking the stupid Google AI questions. I really regret this, I feel like a total idiot.”source ↗

“What if there's something on these that can survive like a prion that could kill my and my family if I cook in these ever again.”source ↗

“Then it turned to "I contaminated the counters and sink with this stuff!"”source ↗

“So basically I'm trying to fight off the thought that I already sealed my and my family fate by bringing these in the house or touching them.”source ↗

“We’re a bit unsure of what can be kept, what can be washed, and what we should thrown away. We’d bought some groceries today, some of which were left out. Do these need disposing of?”source ↗