Obsessed over blood

[angrySCORCH62]

Hi, i'm not 100% sure this is the right place to post this

I'm really obsessed over other peoples blood and getting something from it, the main problem now it's threatening to effect my uni work. It started during the earlier weeks of the course when one of my mates cut himself on a pair of wire cutters, he washed his hands but when I looked over at him later on I saw red marks on his fingers.

So I usually wash my hands as well as my bus pass and student card.

Now when I was in the lab on monday I acidently ran my hand over what looked like a boogy (for lack of a better word), now I think I saw a little sliver of blood in it (a red line) anyhow I didn't want to leave the lab to wash my hands and now I'm worried because I will most likely have to use the computer for a unit this thursday and I don't want to touch the keyboard.

Now this is a little embarrising but I have something wrong with my gums and they bleed a little and I am worried about getting something from a blood to blood thing.

This is causing me to wash my hands even more than usual and they're very dry now and I want to stop having to wash my hands but I am struggling to get over this.

Thanks for any help.

 

[kaykay9.0]

Not sure if this is OCD or not, but sounds like you could benefit from some counseling about this. It definitely seems to have components of the very typical OCD handwashing compulsion.