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want to stop worrying and being in constant paranoia?
okay so ever since i was a little kid, i've been paranoid about batteries. like everything about them scares me. it all started when my dad told me to wash my hands after touching the battery of a camera as if could cause cancer. i would be scared to touch batteries and would take like hours washing my hands if i did touch it. i am now 18 years old and my ocd was gone for a few months but now recently i feel it coming back. it came back after i opened the battery compartment of a remote control and saw the dry battery acid. i started to freak out and washed my hands. now i have the need to check every thing that has batteries and see if it has leaked. i also have this weird thing where i feel like i'm going to swallow a battery every time i drink from a cup because i feel like a battery can accidentally be dropped into it. i dunno, i'm really weird but it's been stressing me out a lot recently. like i'm seriously scared of batteries because i feel like i could get cancer if i don't wash my hands thoroughly after accidentally touching battery acid. and another obsession has come about vision loss and cataracts. i never really wore sunglasses as a kid so i'm scared of losing my vision to cataracts because my eyes were always exposed to the sun as a kid and feel like damage has already been done but i went to get a eye check-up recently because my right eye is blurrier than my left eye and the eye doctors never told me anything about cataracts when they tested my eyes. help plz?
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- 7 years ago
That's not really paranoia. It's just a phobia. Everyone has at least one, just maybe not so severe.
As far as the cancer thing goes, I don't think that's a viable reason to be scared of them. If you put it into perspective, everything causes cancer, if you let scientists lead you on. There really is no definite way to prevent cancer, so you shouldn't be so worried.
But on another note, this really isn't something to be so bothered about. You're not abnormal or anything, just afraid.
And the sun thing, I don't think that's related to your eye problems. The only way to cause any significant amount of damage to your eyes like that is to stare directly at the sun for a prolonged amount of time, and I don't think you would have done that. Go get tested again if you're really worried, and ask them what they might think. Bring up cataracts yourself if they don't.