Groceries were tampered with, having a hard time getting over it and quelling my OCD.

Need support/advice

please don’t read if you have contamination OCD this is going to trigger you.

I ordered some groceries last week on Instacart. the person who delivered them or someone at the store had stabbed holes in all of the items. I tried to ERP and keep the items that weren’t stabbed open or in any way opened. Yesterday I ate a cheese spread I bought and it was like the consistency of glue. I only ate a bite but was freaking myself out about him potentially putting something in it to make me sick. if he could stab open my yogurts why wouldn’t he contaminate the rest of the my food? Now I’ve been worried about getting sick from it for over 72 hours.

On top of this I am in a peak of Schizo-OCD. So I already had this quasi-paranoia happening. I had to show people the pictures of the stabs in the food to make sure I wasn't hallucinating. Now I keep thinking “why would he do this why would he be out to get me personally what if I something bad to him and don’t know” and then freaking out because that’s a paranoid thought.

the third type of OCD being triggered is my responsibility ocd. I have reached out to the store, to the app. Nobody is taking it seriously even with photo evidence of food safety being broken. He is still employed Although they unpaired him from my account. What if he seriously hurts someone? then it will feel like that’s my fault. I’m worried about my health because I ate the foods he delivered to me but also for everyone else’s who aren’t as hypervigilant to me.

This whole situation has thrown me for a loop because this isn’t a purely OCD irrational fear it’s something paired with real events. I can’t stop thinking why did this happen to me and how do I get comfortable eating food from the grocery store again? Anyone at any time can touch your food and harm you. how do I live with that?

Any advice honestly would be great. I’m so thrown back into my contamination OCD with this.

Posted Feb 11, 2026, 10:26 PM UTC

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