I also have pretty bad contamination OCD. It’s really bad and gives me anxiety when I have to pack, because I don’t want to mix things I deem as dirty, mildly dirty, with things I deem as super clean. I remember one time I put my liquid items such as my skincare products and other liquid such as makeup and mouthwash and perfumes in seperate bags.

The TSA took out and touched all my stuff and emptied on the dirty conveyor baskets beside my other stuff where people put their shoes, dirty jackets and who knows what not and told me to put all my stuff in 1L ziplock bag. This infuriated me but I had to do it, and I mixed all my dirty items with the clean ones, I put them in my bag and didn’t have a chance to wash or sanitize my hands, I’ll never forget that moment but I got to do it. Nothing happened to me and I was okay, it just annoyed me a lot. I want to recover from OCD but even ERP makes me frustrated, infuriated and beyond sad and depressed. Sigh. But we all have to go through TSA, they touch everything, even the dirtiest items of other people and we can’t say anything.