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People Who Don't Wear Deodorant or Seemingly Bathe Regularly, Why? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by Zahille7@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Like, I travel around for work and I've met plenty of people from all backgrounds.

Why is there a demographic of people who don't seemingly bathe regularly, or at the very least wear something to cover up their BO? I could understand if it's an allergy, or even religious reasons (though the people I've met that smell bad are usually you're average American young adult man) but recently (like in the past week, recently) I've met a concerning number of people who don't seem to wear any kind of deodorant or possibly don't even bathe regularly; it's starting to become an issue for me, as I don't even want to interact with them when I can smell them walking up from 3+ feet away yet I need to for work.

Does anyone have any possible insight?

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[–] M137@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well written on both parts, and it's often a combination of both. When you have mental health issues, it can also be harder to get stuff to make a shower or anything else nicer. Be it issues doing laundry, so you don't have completely clean towels and/or fresh clothes to put on afterwards, or having shampoo, conditioner, etc.
I often get stuck because I haven't showered, haven't been able to force myself to do laundry, and/or forgot to buy products. Then you really don't want to leave your home because you get anxiety over others seeing or smelling you, so you're just stuck with that anxiety for days until you manage to do anything about it.