OCD Survey: Your answers wanted

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I want to ask because of my OCD which I'm trying to improve.

1st Question: If you go outside on a bus or train or sit in the passenger seat of someone else's car that is full of mess everywhere and the back of your head touches the seat's head rest, when you get home do you wash your hair?

2nd Question: If you find some money on the floor and pick it up would you wash your hands when you got home?

3rd Question: If you buy food in the supermarket do you wipe the packaging after getting home?

4th Question: Do you get colds, flus or other infections much?

5th Question: Do your TV remote controls, computer keyboards, computer mice and door handles feel clean or do they feel sticky or dirty?

No to all of them except maybe the last. The controls of my stuff feel okay to me because I am used to them. May feel a bit unclean to someone else.

Thanks for the answers. Please keep them coming people. You want to feel good about yourself? By replying here you will help me, you can give yourself a big pat on the back.

1 no
2 no
3 no
4 no
5 no, but there is dust visible on the part of the spacebar I don't touch.

I wash my hands after using the toilet, and, if possible, before re-adjusting my clothing, and before preparing food for guests. Otherwise, the most frequent reason for hand washing is not wanting to get my own body oil onto my work in the shop, or having gotten dirty there. My first profession, silversmithing, requires antiseptic cleanliness on the work, while spreading dirt around the area, so I got good at zones.
I have an MD friend who encouraged his wife to let their son try eating things like garden soil to build up his immunity. The rise in severe allergies is probably related to immune systems not being developed with gentle exercise. Healthy skin has many benign microbes, leaving no opportunity for unhealthy ones, which can easily colonise a sterile medium.

I don't have that type of OCD

so my answers are

1 no
2 no
3 no
4 not really , usually get something in Winter though
5 they're filthy and I know it but I don't feel the dirt , I'd lick my keyboard , door knob etc and wouldn't worry

I respect your opinions. It's clear to me my cleanliness-obsessed brain has become irrational. I've thought of another question now, annoyingly!

If anyone cares to answer this one too, feel free. If you have a runny nose and you had to keep wiping bits of mucous that were running would you keep washing your hands? This is one of the ones that is most time consuming for me.

My nose keeps running at times and I get tissue after tissue to wipe it but I keep fearing my finger touched a bit of the mucous on the tissue, or it seems it did, or the back of my hand touches it slightly, and so I can end up washing my hands 10 times in a few minutes.

I use cloth handkerchiefs because disposable stuff further irritates my nose. I use enough folds to isolate anything I'm using it for, and if I make a mistake, I usually find it sufficient to wipe my fingers clean on another bit of cloth, such as my pant legs. Maybe you can taper off by keeping a small moist towel and a dry one handy.

I have OCD and the answer is no to each of your questions. My OCD mainly manifests itself in excessive empathy and moral scrupulosity. Cleanliness isn't much of an issue anymore.

No, no, no, no and yes (commonly).

In a similar vein, though, I do go to the bathroom to wash my hands after shaking hands with certain people. Also, I don't like lending my pen to people in general, because I don't like to use it after they have handled it. I had to throw out a pair of ear-bud headphones after a friend of mine listened to my MP3 player using them for a few seconds.

1. no
2. no
3. no
4. no
5. usually clean, some are dirty (ie. you can see the dirt/mess)

1. No
2. No
3. No
4. No
5. They don't feel sticky or dirty to me.

No to all except the last - I know they're dirty and the iPad screen gets greasy but it doesn't bother me unless it gets really gross.

For 1 to 4, no. For 5, I rarely notice how they feel, I just use them. If a device gets truly sticky or particularly dirty I usually notice and dislike it. Pretty normal really.

AFAIK I don't have OCD, at least not to a clinical level. I get a few sensory issues such as not liking my hands to be sticky or greasy, but it never feels particularly urgent to clean them, just kind of yukky until I do. I'm perhaps less tolerant than many about picking up infected matter from toilet door handles etc., but I think it's fairly rational, and again it's not terribly urgent for me to stay clean, just desirable, and I have a fair amount of confidence in my immune system. I'm just kind of health conscious and generally risk averse but I think it's all based on logic with some perfectionism in the mix.