Do I need to disinfect/wipe down all my food packages now? Or is this OCD?

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I do have OCD, and a lot of things I can tell are my OCD and me being irrational...like I don't need to wash my hands with 10 pumps of soap even if my OCD is telling me to.

But today I went to lidl to do my shopping and these people STANK of weed so badly. Now I am back home I want to wash all my food packaging or wipe it all down before putting it away because I'm scared it's contaminated with weed.

Is this my OCD or is this something other people would also be worried about/do? I'm trying so hard to inhibit my compulsions, but i don't know is this is actually rational?

No its not necessary unless you are going to lock the packaging

It is highly unlikely your food packaging will be contaminated with anything. Wipe it if you like but I don't think it's necessary.

It’s the OCD, OP.

It’s your OCD I’m afraid.

Does your shopping actually smell of weed?

Unless people were smoking in the store I can’t imagine it would .

It's OCD.

this isn’t something people without ocd worry about as far as i can tell (i certainly don’t)

xx

This is ocd and quite extreme

Well done for recognising and taking steps to control it. The weed smell would be airborne and just drifting off someone's clothes. I wouldn't worry about it. I wouldn't eat out of someone's kitchen who had been smoking in there but it won't be contaminated from someone's smelly clothes passing through the shop. It wouldn't effect you either unless you were the one smoking it/inhaling a lit joint/bong beside them as they were actively doing it. It's just a strong smell.

I genuinely mean it though, well done for getting some kind of hold on your thoughts, it can't be easy but you know it's not a great mindset either ❤️

You are not going to eat the packaging, so no, it’ll be fine.

The aroma of weed won’t have put weed particles in your food. Unless they were rolling the joint over the food and dropped some in or else blew the smoke on the food very up close it is not contaminated by their smell.

This is OCD

It's the OCD talking

I have OCD and this is OCD.

Seeking reassurance online is also part of your compulsions.

The smell of weed cannot contaminate anything. As everyone has said, it's the OCD, good on you for recognising it.

I think this might be your OCD but that said, weed smell is nasty and I don’t blame you. But just because they smelt of weed doesn’t mean your food will! But I get it….

It's not contaminated.

You could actually lick the packaging. I wouldn't especially want to, but nothing would happen if you did, even if someone had smoked really really close to it.

No. You won’t. There are many dirty things in supermarket warehouses including the occasional rat. No one really washing their groceries or gets sick from not washing them. Shopping trolleys are manky.
Yes. It is your mind playing on you. The aroma of weed won’t be on your food.

I work with immunocompromised people. If there was any reason to wipe packaging these would be the first people told to do so. They are not. There are no indicators that they should.

This is your OCD.
Nothing bad is going to happen.
Distract yourself with something else.
I suffered from contamination OCD for decades. I'm free of it now. It can be beaten OP.