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People coughing, anxiety and irritation

Hope

I have OCD as well as Aspergers,and one of my fears is contamination, and related to this is a fear of people coughing. However, it is not simply a fear of picking up their germs but a fear of the sound itself. I HATE the sound of certain people coughing. It is something about the sound thatI hate, perhaps because I associate it with germs and pollution. However, it also makes me feel sick in and of itself, and this includes people sniffing. I immediately think about the snot and phelgm, and it makes me want to run away because I go all tense. But I also feel angry and annoyed.  What can I do?

I also have OCD with washing and checking, but the fear of people coughing and sneezing is the worst phobia.

  • Having OCD with Aspergers,, which makes me Phobic.  I find that stress environments bring the phobia's out more. The Phobia's, I have,  is to do mostly with HEALTH and Social anxiety, so they are linked as they increase with stress and feeling of lack of control. So if I can acknowledge(not control) my stress environment, it helps me recover quicker from my own mind-box irrational thinking, the phobia is just the body and minds way off unneccessarily over-protecting you.  

    On a side note, too over wash removes the good layer of bacteria and allows a new layer of bacteria to enter the space, that brings a higher risk of mutated virus, so it is better not to wash things to much, it breaks the protective biomic seal. The human body at original source is old bacteria living in cell construct, you are a bacteria Smile.  The coughing,  sounds like it is an alarm warning sound to you, but people coughing with snot and phelgm,, the virus or disease has already been fought off by the body, so the risk of contamination is actually at it lowest.

    Hope this new informaton helps reassure you, but you can check this information on the internet for yourself, being a mutual health phobia person. But at core it is stress environment driven.

    For what it is worth, Nasa are spending billions on Mars projects to find bacterial life, that is now important dust and bacteria are, it makes planets and all life go round.