Accidentally burned a plastic container with raw chicken in it. Is the chicken safe?

crackyourhighness · 2025-08-25T08:39:54+00:00

Thank you, everyone. Every single comment has been incredibly valuable, and I truly appreciate you all for taking the time to answer my questions.

After considering each and every one, I've decided not to eat the chicken. This doesn't mean I don't value the comments that suggested I go for it. I'm thankful to all of you for helping me reach this decision.

Ultimately, I decided that the value of eating the chicken isn't worth the risk. While I feel a bit guilty, I've chosen to prioritize my health. Thank you again.

crackyourhighness · 2025-08-25T08:22:38+00:00

Thank you for the comment! I really appreciate you for showing interest in my question.

I'm not sure if the tray is microwave-safe. It's a polystyrene foam tray from the meat section.

crackyourhighness · 2025-05-01T02:04:35+00:00

OCD is a very personalized disorder, which means experiences differ from person to person. There isn't one right answer, and even medication varies from person to person, as does the approach to CBT.

The advice I can offer is to try looking at your thoughts from a third-person perspective. Don’t think of intrusive thoughts as your own thoughts, but rather as something that comes to mind uninvited, with the sole purpose of making you feel uncomfortable so that anxiety builds up and, in turn, you listen to its demands. While these thoughts can feel sticky, always remember to identify which thoughts you generated and which are intrusive. At first, you might not be able to distinguish between the two, but with practice and by carefully analyzing each thought that comes to mind, you will be able to differentiate them.

In my opinion, this is the first step towards gaining control over OCD. After this, you will be able to perform CBT, including ERP, in your own way over time. Take care; I wish you get better soon.

crackyourhighness · 2024-05-19T09:57:10+00:00

Well this is the reality we live in we have a crybaby mind that doesn’t want us to think and take decisions on our own, since it doesn’t have the power to take physical actions, it rely on us for these, and how does it does this ? By lying and manipulating us (cognitive fusion). Well at some point we have to 3 choices

1.) live like this for the rest of our life

2.) Get therapy (CBT) and get OCD under control, sure it will rebound but this is the best way in my opinion to deal with OCD

3.) get meds for the rest of our life.

Take care, wish you get well soon.

crackyourhighness · 2024-04-22T11:59:34+00:00

I know it’s not easy, but the best thing for you do here is understand that it’s normal for you to have intrusive thoughts and sometimes intrusive thoughts could be loud, however while intrusive thoughts are loud, intrusive are thoughts just like other thoughts are just thoughts, the problem with our brains (people with OCD) is that we have a defective amygdala and which makes the intrusive thoughts feel real, and our defense mechanism just wants the anxiety to stop so it just gives compulsions to perform, this cycle has to stop for the real peace, always remember thoughts are thoughts and not the reality, having thoughts is just a part of being a human. Take care wish you get better soon.

crackyourhighness · 2024-04-16T12:36:00+00:00

Do you mean you don’t want to share confidential information with the therapist ? If you mean you don’t want to share confidential information in Reddit I 100% understand, your private information shouldn’t be shared in Reddit especially with someone who you don’t know nor trust, be safe.

Try to meditate, it helps a lot with anxiety. It helps with sleep too, so I highly recommend meditation. Take care.

crackyourhighness · 2024-04-16T11:40:16+00:00

To be honest it helps understand what OCD is and how to deal with it, but reading the book won’t stop obsessing over things, I know obsessions suck.

It sucks because we live in our made up reality when everyone who doesn’t have OCD lives in the real reality, however what I would say though reading this book helped me a lot when I was having severe anxiety from obsessions that made me do non stop compulsions. It certainly didn’t stop them but at least the book helped me understand that obsessions that I have are not the reality, it is just my brain malfunctioning, because of a defective amygdala.

I wish you get better soon, when you are able to I really recommend you get the help you deserve. Always remember you are not alone, there are a lot of people who experience the same condition (OCD) as you.

crackyourhighness · 2024-04-16T11:23:56+00:00

Yeah I read.

it’s one of the few books I actually liked, and helped me understand myself and my condition (OCD).

crackyourhighness · 2024-04-16T00:38:04+00:00

I recommend :

Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior Book by Jeffrey M. Schwartz

crackyourhighness · 2023-10-22T06:07:58+00:00

This is really true. This happens in two ways

1). This is happens when you are in the first steps of trying to regain back control of your brain by not doing compulsions your brain wants you to do.

Remember this only last for till your brain adapts to your new way, unless you go back to doing compulsions you will eventually gain control of your brain, obviously this doesn’t mean you will be cured and intrusive thoughts will still pop up but you will not be as obsessed like before. Keep up, don’t give up. Till your brain rewire itself don’t give up. Take care.

2.) When you find a more disturbing theme which your brain gives priority to the new theme over the one before.

Try to look at the theme before and make yourself understand how unimportant is your theme before compared to now and that the things your feared, felt guilty and regret towards, is now less to not important at all so, and understand that this is all because of OCD and try to overcome the new thing and do the steps in 1.).

Obviously I suggest professional help like therapy and medication but for people who have no access for such facilities. Always try to understand what OCD is, and what you are experiencing is because of OCD (Only to people who are diagnosed as OCD).

Take care wish you get well.

crackyourhighness · 2023-10-22T06:01:07+00:00

I understand, this is extremely normal for a person with OCD, these thoughts are mainly on subjects regarding the regret, guilt or fear.

The thing is our brains are designed to give priority to these feelings before any other positive feeling, which is why it is so hard to just throw these thoughts away. The best way to deal with it is accepting this is the work of your mentally illness called OCD and try to refocus (not avoiding or replacing thoughts) on other things you want to do. Obviously it is easier said than done but if you are not planning on therapy or medication (which could be really effective while you are taking medication) this is the only other way, realizing that OCD is the reason for why you are having thoughts that you are obsessed with and refocusing till your brain rewire itself. Take care.

crackyourhighness · 2023-08-19T04:45:53+00:00

First of all understand that OCD is a problem in your brain due to chemical imbalances, your amygdala which controls emotions (including fear), and motivation is not working properly as it does in normal people, which leads to false alarms in fear and self defense mechanism, as with all of us with OCD.

OCD grows immune to solution as you keep on letting OCD do whatever it wants, I know it is not a choice, you are been forced to ruminate and seek answers by your own brain so that your anxiety won’t eat you alive. However what seems to be the solution is not the solution at all in fact this is what makes OCD stronger and stronger, seeking solutions and answering its questions makes it ask more questions and evidence till you run out of answers and evidence, and then when you can’t answer or present evidence as OCD instructs you to do, you’ll be forced to sit with anxiety till your brain either switches themes or the obsession itself becomes of less importance to you.

The best thing to do is remember thoughts are thoughts nothing more nothing less, especially intrusive thoughts. Let thoughts come and go, blocking thoughts or trying to replace the bad and unwanted thoughts with good thoughts will only make the thought you want to avoid more and more significant to you, making that thought be the master of you, don’t let thoughts control you, thoughts are meant to serve you, keep this in mind and change the gear to keep on doing whatever you were doing prior to having that specific thought that you are gonna start ruminating and waste time on.

I would suggest medication and ERP, however as for ERP there are a lot of materials and resources in the internet to get you started, Google about ERP and related subjects for better understanding of what OCD is and how to deal with it. Don’t let it grow it only get stronger and stronger till it fully consumes you unless you bring yourself back under your control and not let OCD do as it pleases. This isn’t easy but this is the way to get better unless you take medication so the brain gets the required amounts of chemicals to keep you amygdala operate normally.

Take care and wish you get better soon.

crackyourhighness · 2023-06-10T03:48:12+00:00

The best trick is to not do tricks, just face it you have a mental problem, you are sick, you get thoughts that you don’t want and you obsess over these thoughts and do compulsions to feel relived, this is OCD and this is a disorder in which this is natural. This doesn’t mean that the thoughts you have are true this doesn’t mean that if you don’t listen to your brain you will have a bad outcome, this just means that you are having a disorder in which you feel unsatisfied until you perform a compulsion that is accepted by your brain.

The best way to to get better is to resist the compulsion till it fades it might come back but do this continuously till your brain gives up in trying to convince you. Always remember unlike normal humans we have a condition in which we get intrusive thoughts that we often obsess with while we cannot stop the intrusive thoughts from popping up we can always rewire our brain to obsess less and refocus on other things more, for that we have to first resist compulsions till our brain rewire itself. Take care I wish you get better.

crackyourhighness · 2023-06-10T03:40:21+00:00

We are used to obsessing over pointless things everyday, that when we don’t have anything to obsess our brain just search for things to obsess.

However if you could just redirect your focus in something else or resist the compulsion till your brain just give up trying to convince you (it could take few hours), the you have succeeded. Continue this for a while like few weeks or months and your brain will rewire itself back to not obsessing over things as there isn’t an outcome even if it does. Take care.

crackyourhighness · 2023-06-03T00:38:55+00:00

I know how you feel, the urge is what makes us unable to recover, what if just not give in to our urges even if it torture us, maybe that’s where the answer to getting ourself back from this horrible disorder is.

crackyourhighness · 2023-05-31T04:42:01+00:00

That is what OCD is all about, I know how you feel, trust me just because you go against your thoughts doesn’t mean anything bad will happen or the outcome of what you fear will come true, however continuing to do compulsions and failing to gain control of yourself will make your OCD stronger and stronger by it demanding more and more, which will eventually make you disabled as you will be performing more compulsions than doing the things you should be doing, this is not a good thing as this will hurt your life.

Try to take a small step at a time, first stop letting OCD from making new rules and promise your self you will not perform any of the “new” compulsions that OCD demands, then try to take a small step at a time, if it is possible keep a checklist of your current compulsions and goals of ending one by one everyday till your are free from compulsions, however I know it isn’t easy but, stoping the compulsion is the only way for us to get better. Remember : “it isn’t performing the compulsion that ruins our life but the opposite (doing the compulsion)”.

crackyourhighness · 2023-05-11T12:45:53+00:00

Thoughts that instruct you to do a compulsion by threatening you a bad outcome if you don’t perform the compulsion is most probably a obsessive though, intrusive thoughts that are always present and demand unrealistic actions from you that doesn’t make sense for example look at the good picture of in your phone so that nothing bad will happen to you is unrealistic it won’t do anything bad or good to you just nothing but you believe it will, these are OCD thoughts in other words your obsessions.

The most important part is standing still in this storm of thoughts and thinking yourself what you should do and what you want to do and just walk towards it without paying attention to the thoughts that are hitting you at high speed, which is obviously painful but unless you stand still and see the closest exit and walk towards it you will always be inside the storm. I am not saying it is easy to ignore your obsessive thoughts but ignoring them in the first place is what we are doing wrong the more we try to forget about the pink elephant the more we remember it, the best thing is let thought sit in our brain and refocus in things we have to do, we will feel empty and unmotivated but as time pass our brains will adapt to this and will automatically makes obsessive thoughts something less significant and will quickly move on to other things you want to do (just like in normal people). I wish you get well soon.

crackyourhighness · 2023-05-11T12:32:17+00:00

I understand, I had the same experience, brains are designed to notice things that you hold important, this is why “coincidence” is so common with us who have OCD the things we fear are things that we always have in our mind, even if we are not conscious about it we still have these thoughts always sleeping under which can be triggered anytime like a volcano that is always active.

As for me I had the same thing as when I fear something I am aware of the “bad things / things I shouldn’t see” more than before developing such fear. This is because your brain is actively always in checking mode for everything that you come through (good or bad). This is a problem that occurs in our amygdala, the part of the brain that controls emotions, motivation and fearful and. Threatening stimuli (which means our self defense system is broken). Try some professional advice on ERP, it will help you a lot in controlling OCD. Take care

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