I have a problem with food in general. I cannot eat anything that my parents have prepared and being a college student it is extrememly hard to eat at school.

Yes i do. I work with disabled people, and have to cook with them. I get scared the food won't be cooked proper and they'll get food poisoning and die or something.

I constantly wash my hands too.

In my own home, im the same.

Yes I have that, when cooking meat or eggs. My exposures are to cook.

It's exceedingly tedious, but it just takes practice. Over time, if you just keep cooking and eating what you cook, it'll get better. Hey, I thought mental illness was supposed to be a checking out of reality! I'll have a serving of some of that, please. Undercooked or whatever. No sauce.

I have a problem not with cooking for my family, but with cooking for people outside my family... I am really fearful and obsessive about the idea that someone will either get sick from my cooking or find a hair in their food (we have dogs and I have alopecia... although I wear scarves and wigs usually when cooking). It's not like I even find hairs in food that I cook for my family... it's more that I feel this is the worst thing that could happen when giving food to someone else. The weird thing is, I am actually a really good cook and people do compliment me on food I make.

I also have issues with food - I am a pescatarian because I cannot stand the texture of meat or fat or gristle. I also don't like the thought that fish was once alive - I can seriously stop myself from eating mid-meal by thinking about the origin of my food. I hate the way eggs can get the whitey bits like slime - fried egg or if the eggs are not beaten well in scrambled or an omelette)... I am a weird one!