Mysophobia as in constantly washing my hands and not being able to concentrate when I didn’t shower. Camping and festivals were hell. This was in my teens, then I got drafted and three months of boot camp fixed it. Shock therapy works.
Kind of the same here. I can go without cleaning, I just don’t like it and my mood tanks.
My personal experience spending time with people with germaphobia:
- They have no idea where germs actually are or how germs are transmitted. They just do specific things that they assume “clean”, or avoid specific things that they assume “dirty”
- They share similarities with people with OCD
Phobias are by definition irrational.
It depends on the person really. Mythbusters tested this, and the germophobe was the cleanest / didn’t have anything on them in comparison to the others. Iirc they had some UV dye and then had dinner together? Then shined a light on em.
As a German myself, not really.
reads title again
(Obvious joke about Germans)
Not really, I was really weird about showering for a while, I have kind of accepted that I need to be somewhat clean to have a proper, productive, happy day. Although I believe that being used to it plays a huge role.
There was a small pandemic I think. That gave most folks Germaphobia
Lol my mom still doesn’t want to wash hands even after seeing covid so I’m not too sure about that.
I waste a bit of time washing my hands and keeping rules like things that have been on the floor don’t go onto the kitchen counters. But I very rarely get sick so maybe it’s working.
