is this an disorder.....if so what type?!


Question: Is this an disorder.....if so what type?
well my mom doesn't like it when someone touches her because she thinks they are dirty. She makes me wash my hands for small things like when she wants me to get her a bottle of water. She takes alot of showers and she checks seats before sitting on them.When she has to clean,she gets verrrrrry dirty. She walks around the house naked because she does not want to carry her dirty clothes once she is clean. She even takes a shower when she comes from a store. Also she yells at me when im 3 ft away from a public trash can or when i touch something certain like something she finds dirty that isn't, she yells at me and makes me take a shower.

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I would agree with previous poster, it does sound like OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder. People develop these for different reasons. You can look it up in the physicians desk annual of mental health disorders, since there are different types and subcategories. In my opinion, it is similar to anorexia nervosa, and that the main reason people develop these types of disorders is because it is one way they feel they can exert control over an area of their life. Anorexia is common in young teenage girls, and to me I can understand why they feel a need to have a sense of a control in that tumultuous time of life, but it is different talking about a middle aged woman. If this is relatively new behaviour for her, I would have to guess there has been something in her life recently that has affected her....divorce, breakup, financial stressors??? I am sorry you are having to deal with this, but there is help available, and you be careful to protect yourself, and I mean mental healthwise, you dont need to develop this manic behaviour/ phobia too, okay?



It sounds like she has a Obsessive Compuslive Disorder (OCD)
I feel bad for you I would hate to have a life like that...
heres a website.. I didn't read through the whole thing but it sounds good
http://hubpages.com/hub/What-is-clean-fanaticIs-it-a-personality-disorder



hey, am not a doctor but it sounds like OCD (obsseive-compulsive disorder)
check this website out it might help!
http://www.bupa.co.uk/individuals/health-information/directory/o/obsessive-compulsive



OCD - OBSESSIVE CUMPULSIVE DISORDER.
your moms the germaphobe type.

my sister has ocd too i know its tough but you just gotta love her through it



Obsessive compulsive disorder



OCD/Germaphobia both are extrememelelely common



Sounds a little bit like O.C.D. Could talk to a school councilor or your and see what they think?



maybe she is a germophobe? or just has OCD with cleanliness




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