I NEED HELP RIGHT NOW!

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I need a bath. I cannot focus on anything until I'm clean. My mother will not allow me to take a bath because I'm obsessive-compulsive about it (I bathe four times a day). She doesn't understand that you can't really stop an obsessive-compulsive. You can lock an obsessive-compulsive in a cage, but that doesn't cure them; the whole time they're in the cage all they can think about is how much they need a bath.

It's 7:00 AM, and my mother says that I can take a bath at 9:00 AM. That is two hours in which I cannot eat, drink, read, write, doodle, think, or have any fun whatsoever. That's two hours of my limited lifespan in which all I can think of is that my eyelids are sticky and my privates are, well, full of -girls you know what I mean- that horrible oiliness.

Four showers a day, two of them short, is not a lot. It doesn't hinder my life. Being dirty hinders my life. Do you know the diseases you can get from poor hygiene? It ranges from simple rashes to full-blown typhus. Why does my mother want me to get typhus? I don't know.

All I know is that I can't wait two hours for a f****** bath.

Three to four times a week would probably satisfy the "good hygiene" label. Your skin needs its natural moisture for its own defenses against infections. You leave yourself open if you wash too much.

Learn to live with the delays and learn to do normal things while waiting.

Have you maybe tried using a washrag or something similar? It may not be a full bath, but it may help with some of that nastyness you're talking about.

And as a fellow girl, I KNOW that form of yuck. I use a washrag if I'm tired/lazy/out of time to bathe properly. I at least feel much cleaner.

All I know is that I'd definitely rather befriend a person who showers four times a day than one who showers twice a week like some of the kids I'm acquainted with. That is just narsty.

Do what works for you--focus on your own happiness instead of trying to do what other people say is "normal".

Actually MissPickwickian, the scrounges that I have known in my life do not seem to get sick from lack of hygiene. That is too bad, because if they did it might encourage some of them to clean their foul smelling bodies. I only shower once a day myself unless I somehow get scrounged up.

You could contruct a little shelter outside your house, use a regular garden hosepipe and shower there. Not good during bad weather and a litte crude to say the least, but it has a certain diy charm don't you think? I'll show myself out.

I have ocd as well. My case used to be very bad but I was doing the repetitive behaviors ,not the obsessive cleaning thing. But still I can offer you helpfull advice. Think of why you need to shower this much. Think about what you worry will happen if you only shower once a day. Think about this and know it is only a fear , only a simple worry, and nothing bad will happen. Think of this every time your worried ,not only with showering but any other ocd behavior that comes up.

And when your felling very brave challenge yourself to do what you fear, see what happens and prove to yourself that it is only a fear and you don't have to be afraid anymore.

Hope this helps .

I would help, but I have little control over your mother. I would think starting the day with a shower, it wakes me up. Waiting till nine?

In our humid tropical climate, soked clothing in twenty minutes, showering several times a day is not unusual. No one has died from being wet that I know of. Some shower and take dips in the pool, and shower after that.

Running water is calming, I like it. If I was running yourself, as others seem to think they should, I would suggest you go take a shower, till you told me to shut up. I have known a few girls, they showered and change clothes, it seemed every few hours.

Forced showers were used in mental hospitals to calm people, it is a treatment for Typhiod Fever, and other fevers, and you did mention your body termostat was not working properly. It seems a harmless self medication to me.

It seems to me lack of showers is causing mental distress.

Then again, was she planning on washing clothes, doing the dishes, and not wanting to steam and freeze you? Sometimes mothers have reasons. Mostly I do not understand them, but that is why we grow up and leave, it is a package deal, they raise us and get rid of us, and are not aware of it at all.

It is 4 AM so I hope you got your showers and are sleeping with good dreams.

4 bathes a day is physically bad for you