Contamination ERP

Ever done anything completely gross? For those of us with OCD that mainly consists of touching handrails and picking objects off a dirty floor. Today our TWAARP group went to an interactive lecture called "Mudpies: The Fear of Contamination". Mud. Mudpies. Right? We can handle that! Wrong. Not mud. Carpet. Some of us in the group, have a huge fear of sitting on unfamiliar carpet. We started with every person sitting on the carpeted floor. Proceeding to touch the floor with our hands. Next, the therapist dumped a box of Tic Tacs on the floor and told us to eat one. Ew! Why? To face our fear. To prove we could do something completely out of our comfort zone. Afterwards, he brought  out ABC gum... (I thought I was going to die.) Almost all of the people in he room ate a piece. None in our TWAARP group could. Instead we touched the gum and licked our fingers. Absolutely horrifying. Not gonna lie, but we did it. AND LIVED! We even held the ABC gum! Although the experience was gross, minty, and filled with tears, but we have grown stronger from it. So next time you think you cannot do something think about us a TWAARP touching ABC gum then licking our fingers. Yep whatever your worried about probably won't kill you even though your terrified. Face it! So stay strong! Post your successes here!!