OCD and Covid-19

[Ariadnee]

Hello everyone. Hope everyone doing fine! I suffer from anxiety and in the past I found it very hard to cope with OCD.

During the pandemic I have been working from home and I' ve been avoiding crowds but now all the restaurants are open and I am bit concerned about how to manage my stress around that. I would like to go out and have a nice dinner or a nice coffee again, see my friends, have fun, go for a long drive or even travel somewhere around my country but I think that I would be very anxious about that. I have to live with the pandemic and with anxiety, but how can I live my life "normal" again? I am afraid that I will go out for a coffee and I will be using hand sanitizer all the time and everyone will laugh at me.

[LuvSun]

Hello! If you are fully vaccinated you should slowly be able to get back to doing the things you used to along with the rest of the world. I wouldn’t worry about looking silly using hand sanitizer as I think a lot of people ( without OCD) will be using it as well.😉

[Ariadnee in reply to LuvSun]

Thank you for your reply! Unfortunately I won't be fully vaccinated until June or July but I see your point. Thank you so much!