u/Overall_Way_1432

How do you deal with your hair with OCD?

My hair is mid-thigh length, and I love wearing it down but my current job is triggering me so much.

Some coworkers use public restrooms and do not wash their hands after it, and just come back and touch everything in the building...

I am so disgusted I cannot touch a door handle or even a pen because of it...

And my hair, if worn down, just touches things from chairs and their handles to tables to door handles if I don't pay attention.... By the end of the shifts, I find myself and my hair so disgusting I shower for about an hour and it is making everything worse...

I could have just worn it up in a tight bun so it does not touch anything, but I love it down, I look better and I get less self-conscious...

So, as of now, I just shower and shampoo it every day...

How do I care for my hair without letting my OCD destroy my hair? I don't want to lose another thing of mine to this disorder.

Edit: I had no problem with it if my hair were the oily type... it is dry and can take up to more than seven days to have the scalp to get some oil and washing it daily spend so much shampoo and time... I cannot spend my life just relying on hair masks or additional oils on a hair I would be deliberately making less healthy...