@@softlightlaboratory your personal experience doesn't invalidate the points made in the video. there could be numerous other factors that have caused you to remain fine
I'm a disabled veteran who never leaves my home with a shower upstairs. I am able to only truly bathe once a month, sometimes even longer. I hate not being able to clean myself. That said, most of this is worst case scenario. My only issue really is just the build up of dead skin. This is definitely geared for abled people. Please shower if you can when you can. But this is far from the experience for many disabled people.
Between being disabled and having really terrible mental health, I try for 2x/week, but usually average once every week or two. But if I'm in a really bad depressive episode or having really bad nerve pain, I've gone as long as 2 months, and I hate it. I miss having showers be a relaxing thing lol
Forgive us if this may be too close a query, however we are curious why there has been no effort from any support system to adapt your home for you to use all of it freely? Surely someone knows someone that could help some form of set up to help you get up and down levels easily? Not just for the showering portion, but simply out of functionality and convince for you, too. We do hope your situation can improve !! Thank you for your commitment and sacrifices.
@@morgannaomi1231 I also have severe depression and I shower 1 a week and when you're having a really bad episode of depression you just don't care about your hygiene.
Having had very severe depression in the past, my self-care was put on hold for weeks at a time at points. Thankfully, none of that stuff ever happened to me except for the fact that no one could be around me because I smelled so bad.
You are not alone! My self care goes out the window, because sometimes I'm my last priority. I'll take sink baths, but I have gone without shampooing (and sometimes even brushing) my hair for months. I've had to chop off my hair three separate times, due to debilitating depression. Mental illness is no joke whatsoever.
As someone with depression, this is something I know too well. I want to shower but my depression has built a huge invisible wall between me and the shower and its just too much effort to try to get over that wall. I wish ppl would understand that Im not making excuses. Im mentally unable to do it.
@@nekoboygames7786 I absolutely understand. You are absolutely not alone. I can care for others but my self-care is trash. I haven't cared for myself in four months plus. I'm looked at as less than. Mental illness is a real situation. But it comes across as less than normal.
While showering frequently/regularly is important, a lot of people who suffer from depression, sensory overload, etc. will hesitate to shower for a number of reasons. It might seem unbelievable to most people, but there are people out there who do go through this to some degree or another. And, sometimes, people just don't have access/the ability to bathe properly and/or regularly.
Agreed. I have an anxiety disorder, it's not that I don't want to shower, it's not that I don't like showering, I just don't want to get into the shower, get soaked and then have a panic attack in the shower. Sometimes I'm fine with it and it takes no thought at all, other times I'm sitting there contemplating for at least 20 minutes.
@@gyrthez246 I totally understand. I have always battled severe depression and anxiety. Showering is something I have to really force myself to do. People around me have no idea how serious this struggle is. Cheers :)
@@gyrthez246 I get easily over stimulated and sometimes being in the shower triggers that (especially if the water isn't draining properly in the tub). I have depression and I can easily go a week without bathing or changing my clothes (and that's with me being medicated).
@@xdOreoMilk then why bother watching this informative vid and reading the comments? If I don’t care… I click off in a blink of an eye. Moving along now. Ps please have a shower. I can smell you from here. 🧼 🧽 🛁
I sweat a lot. It's excessive due to a medical problem. I have to shower daily. Sometimes twice in Summer. I don't like feeling sticky. Especially before bed. Everyone's body has different needs when it comes to showering. There are people who would be just fine with skipping showers for a number of days.
Powdering up with baking soda would have made it much more tolerable. It often makes my pimples fall off painlessly when I use baking soda. Also absorbs the oils.
My personal rule of thumb is showering once or twice a week and then wash the smelliest areas like groin, pits, etc. Just with a wash cloth. Saves a lot of water too and my hair thanks me for not stripping away the oils constantly
i have depression and ADHD (which is tied to sensory overloads, which i have frequently) and it makes it very hard for me to take proper care of my body. i've only recently started showering multiple times a week as i used to only shower once a week. anyway, there was once a time where i went longer than a month during summertime without a single shower. in that time period, i got a urinary tract infection and a worm infection due to the lack of showering. it ended up getting so bad that my mom took the doorknob out of the bathroom and put it in the other way and she locked me in the bathroom until i took a shower. nowadays i take much better care of myself although i still struggle a lot with other stuff like brushing my teeth regularly which i especially need to fix because i can't go to a dentist because of usa healthcare. if you're taking good care of yourself, keep at it. once you stop taking care of your hygiene, it's hard to start taking care of yourself again.
Wow, I'm in that situation, but I haven't gotten an infection since I started using baking soda. Congrats on having better mental health. I don't have any caring people around me like your mom. They actually said that I'd "get serious when I'm on my own" like they planned to abandon me.
You are lucky you still have your mom around. My beloved mother passed away but I was always independent and took care of her and others to the point that I neglected myself. The longest I went without showering was a month and it was a pain. It was because I was stressed taking care of her and others that I neglected myself. I hope to live in my own one day and take care of myself only. Taking care of others is a pain, especially when they don’t appreciate it.
During the start of covid I lost my home to foreclosure but the bank allowed me to stay in the home, though they didn't allow me to turn the water back on I lived like that for over a year and a half and I didn't catch anything even while I recovered from a surgery so as long as you're smart about things you can go pretty long without it
If you live in America, get your fuel from the larger truck stops like ta/petroleum, pilot/flying j, loves. Make sure you get a rewards card. Over time you build up points for free showers. Some service areas have free showers..
@@sentryogmixmaster picking on one person not enough for you? You gonna scroll the comments and call every person that's down on their luck a lazy pos? You clearly have no idea what struggles being homeless brings. I'm not allowed to walk up to a random persons house and start using their hose for a shower. I'm not allowed to walk into Walmart and use their sink as a shower. I'm not allowed to do several things that you tell people to do
@@sentryogmixmaster I fail to see where you're going with this. Yes I can apply to Wendy's. I have a job. I work 35+ hours a week. I still live out of my car because life isn't always easy
As someone with depression and a physical disability, I have experienced a few of these, but the longest I've ever gone without a shower is 2 and a half weeks.
The longest I went was about a month thanks to my mental health tanking, thankfully I'm always home and not particularly active. I just felt gross so I managed to take a long shower
Personally I bathe daily, but there are some times when I go a day or 2 without simply due to laziness. By day 2 I stink and I start to itch. By day 3 I itch all over and feel all grimy due to sweat and whatever that sweat has stuck to my body to the point that I can't sleep.
I spent 3 months in the hospital and they were giving me sponge baths. I still remember how gross I felt. You can’t clean every nook and cranny with a sponge bath..this was back in 2019 and I’ve been taking 3 showers a day ever since 😩
Coming from the Caribbean... everyone here bathes at least 2x each day and we are disgusted by anything less Foreigners who migrate here usually struggle with this and one can usually tell because we sweat a lot here just on a daily basis. It's led to stereotypes that all Europeans smell bad 😂 Someone close to them would usually tell them in time though before the smell gets too out of hand
It honestly depends on the countrys climate. When its cold you hardly sweat and bathing 2x a day is a waste of time, energy and resources. If you've lived in a cold climate then you know what Im talking about..
Yeap most Europeans only shower once a day which is fine in winter but summer you need at least 2 a day. I hate the smell in the summer months body odour everywhere
Before modern times people rarely bathed. One of the reasons behind King John is so hated and this is no joke was because he would dare to bathe 4 times a year and insisted that his clothes were washed.
I have severe depression and showering is one of the things I never have energy to do. I know I'm disgusting and gross and need to, but every time I think about it or go try, I just..... Can't. I hate it.
I'm right there with you, boo. It's hard to make yourself a priority. I consider it a win, that I keep brushing my hair, although I haven't probably washed in months.
I get this sometimes too, brushing my teeth is another one. I have OCD as well, yet I just never have the energy to do these things unless it gets so bad.
I was homeless living out of my car for three months and I had red painful rashes on my skin that looked and felt like sunburn. The first time I could pay for a hotel and some new clothes and a bottle of tequila I laid down on the back wall of the shower and just let the hot water spray me with my nasty clothes on while drinking the tequila for pain killer and gingivitis control( I wasn't brushing my teeth regularly either). I stripped off my nasty clothes and then re washed with soap 45 minutes later.
Had my first shower today in over a year, feel quite refreshed after it. I actually once went without a shower for 3 years. From 2015 until September 2018.
A urinary tract infection can lead to death if left untreated. It can lead to a bladder infection and then it can spread up the ureters to the kidneys. In some cases, it can lead to septicemia which is life threatening. UTIs are a common cause of death among hospitals. I treat patients with UTIs and practicing good hygiene is extremely important.
Fun Fact: Sliced bread was first manufactured by machine and sold in the 1920s by the Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri. It was the greatest thing since…unsliced bread?? Any other ideas?
Longest I’ve went without a shower is anywhere from 5-6 days. This is because I got Influenza A and I was too weak to take one, as I was dizzy, nauseous, and lightheaded, and it looked like the world was tipping over. I had a 103.3° fever.
I guess we must have evolved (de-evolved) dramatically since the invention of the shower. Which we haven't. The gist of this is, you can reduce your chance of getting sick by bathing a few times a year.
Indeed. Man survived for many thousands of years before bathing was a common thing. (of course, we also lived out in the weather, and generally, didn't live all that long.)
While yes, showering is the most way effective in getting rid of filth in a timely manner. The concept of bathing and washing has been a thing as late as the 10th century (picture knights wearing pig skin boots because metal boots wasn’t a thing yet.) it was a nearly daily routine in any village to have its people wash and clean themselves at the nearest river before then washing clothes. And in other cases to the nearest bath tents where tub sized barrels where filled daily with water for cleaning use. (And if you were wealthy. These tubs would be filled with rose petals to give you a nice smell after.)
@@jfbeam who's to say people didn't bath in ancient times? actually it's very likely they used rivers, lakes etc. when possible instead of being unspeakably filthy all the time
I wonce knew a family that tested the limits of not showering on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. Thank God I have never met anyone else who hated showering as much as they did. Just Saying.
When ppl get depressed... showers become not as important anymore. When I went through a horrible period on my life I only showerd about 2x a week. It was super pathetic and when I did bathe I was in there around 8 hours on average! Frickin Crazy time in my life. I think there has to be other people who understand what I'm speaking about. Just letting yourself get pathetic and vulnerable.
In the end of the 30s and start of the 40s there was a boxer, Tony Galento, that would refrain from showering weeks before the fights, one of his opponents described his smell of expired liquor and rotten tuna, he was one of the weirdest boxers to ever live, i really recommend checking his wikipedia
I think it depends on the climate and daily activities. In the Philippines, Filipinos shower everyday because of the tropical climate which the average person gets sweaty always..
Unless I'm sweating or smell from various reasons such as sweating from exercise or the weather, I tend to think twice a week is enough to wash, but I can bath/shower 2 times a day sometimes, or sometimes just twice a week lol
I live by the same philosophy. Unless I'm doing something that requires bathing before or afterwords (like a social thing, or finished working out, etc.), taking a shower everyday seems like excessive waste of water.
I loved this vid! I had almost succumbed to MRSA which I believe is a severe type of staph infection, almost got sepsis and still live my life very wary of what I put ON and IN my body. Best believe I was showering every day prior though, so that probably wasn’t the reason for my suffering, but loved y’all breakdown abt this!
I went over a year without showering and none of this happened to me as long as I changed my underwear every so often and used deodorant daily. It actually made me stop having an odor. The worst things that happened was my skin got kinda dry and if I would get sweaty and rub my arms or legs grime would flake off. Kind of gross but not the worst thing I’ve been through.
This occors to those in nursing homes, rehab centers and other such places where staff is limited and theres alot of patients that need bathing and are not taken care of…..
I used to have a patient that developped a psychological issue that made him totally refuse any wash whatsoever. Other than that issue, he had no dementia or anything. We couldnt bathe him as he had his legal rights to refuse it. Even if he wouldnt be legally able to consent by himself, he was too strong and mentally here to be washed. We never understood what brought him to be afraid of showering or even basic daily cleansing. Hes still alive today, hes really old. He didnt shower for .... years probably. He doesnt seem to have any of those signs in the video, thank god!! Except a foul smell of course....
My later father was like that for the final years of his life. He refused to shower and became literate scared of water saying that it was cold. By the time he passed away, he most likely did not shower for years.
I’ve actually learned a lot from watching you guys some useless information some useful I just like springing the info I learn here on people I know irl 🤞🏾
I believe the real harm come from not bad hygiene but from the toxic environment. I mean look animals in the nature don't bath, don't brush their teeth, but aren't they perfectly well?
I work at a hospital and I shower daily. I know a patient that never would shower,they claimed the water hurt them. The patient ended up dying from spehsis.
I shower once every few months. No washing at all. I dont smell horribly or al all, even my gf says so. I just change clothes once or twice a week. For us both its like a experiment. I hate to shower when its cold and hate it even more when the shower itself is not powerful enough.
not gonna lie when I was in middle school I never took a shower. I would only wet a rag down and wipe my pits and call it good, maybe on a good day I'd throw on deodorant (luckily I never was an incredibly stinky kid i think)
OK, so I completed my mission earlier this year and went 1000 days without showering. I can tell you that my natural biome ended up removing most body odor. No one commented at work and people were happy to work alongside me (They didn't know). I would periodically use hot water and scrub away on pits and bits. I also exfoliated my feet as they need to be looked after. But yeah, you don't die. Was really nice to have a long hot shower at the end of the 1000 days though
I remember when i was a kid my older brother stopped showering unbeknownst to my parents and he ended up with scabies and after that he was all for the shower lol
IDK. After even one day without a shower (so if I showered every other day, even if I don't leave the house) I start to feel sort of grimy from not showing. Maybe it's a psychological thing but I find I have to shower every day at the very least. And even if I don't sweat or whatever (so like the winter, I know some people who don't shower every day because they're like "I don't sweat during the winter so I can go a day without a shower). It could also be because I've been around people who smelled like they needed a shower and so I'm like "I never want to smell like that" so I just make it routine to shower every day, and twice daily if I get really sweaty during the day (like in the summer). For the dandriff part I've also heard that washing your hair too much can also lead to this, particularly if you have hard water or something like that. I've been told by some doctors that you really only need to wash your hair maybe every other day, and more often if you're sweating, but under normal circumstances, every other day is suitable and recommended. I sort of half-believe this but I think there is some merit to the suggestion, as too much washing your hair could also lead to a dry scalp too.
@@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj I just started to smell, itch a little more because my hair was so dry, ever time I got wet from something I would whip it off my clothes then dry it off by fanning it, and I could clean my toilet because my last 🪠 broke so you know "Dirt" started to grow on it and again I just dried off what ever got me wet.
@@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj took a shower when it got to hot one day so yeah nothing really happens you just smell even when you walk you can smell yourself sometimes and that really stinks 🦨😩
@@softlightlaboratory Thanks for sharing and I kind of know how it is since my late dad did not shower for like a year too. He was just lazy and depressed as he got very sick. He was just smelly and lots of dry skin flakes fell off his body. His skin did get messed up too. But it was also due to his bad health not just due to not showering.
When I first heard of a STAPH infection as a kid, I thought you got it from the STAFF in HOSPITALS (doctors and nurses and other workers there) and it was called a STAFF INFECTION.
Maybe it’s because I was taught to be hygienic, but it does seem strange and bothersome that people would want to reject showers and baths. I don’t agree with doing either every day of the week or twice a day, but you really should consider washing your skin at least once a week. Your skin will dry out and you will look and smell like that Iranian guy who hasn’t bathed in several years.
Me before shower: ”I don’t wanna shower”
Me in shower: ”I live here now”
"Ride to the dawn!"
If this aint fax
Me too! I get lazy to go in but once I am in, I don’t want to get out.
Me:this video a lie 🤥
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This channel is so good, really cures my boredom when I most need it.
Also lies to you, I haven't shower in a year because of Covid 19 plus with the exercises and being fat, so nope
@@softlightlaboratory lol congrats
@@softlightlaboratory your personal experience doesn't invalidate the points made in the video. there could be numerous other factors that have caused you to remain fine
@@softlightlaboratory bruh, I can smell your commen t
If only this channel could cure my depression..
I'm a disabled veteran who never leaves my home with a shower upstairs. I am able to only truly bathe once a month, sometimes even longer. I hate not being able to clean myself. That said, most of this is worst case scenario. My only issue really is just the build up of dead skin. This is definitely geared for abled people. Please shower if you can when you can. But this is far from the experience for many disabled people.
Between being disabled and having really terrible mental health, I try for 2x/week, but usually average once every week or two. But if I'm in a really bad depressive episode or having really bad nerve pain, I've gone as long as 2 months, and I hate it. I miss having showers be a relaxing thing lol
Can’t you wash yourself with a wet towel or have someone help you?
Forgive us if this may be too close a query, however we are curious why there has been no effort from any support system to adapt your home for you to use all of it freely? Surely someone knows someone that could help some form of set up to help you get up and down levels easily? Not just for the showering portion, but simply out of functionality and convince for you, too. We do hope your situation can improve !!
Thank you for your commitment and sacrifices.
@@morgannaomi1231 I also have severe depression and I shower 1 a week and when you're having a really bad episode of depression you just don't care about your hygiene.
Try using black African soap, it's made with charcoal and oils. My skin was constantly peeling/discolored from medications and now it's healthy.
If for whatever reason you can't shower, a washrag, soap, and warm water from the bathroom sink is a good (not perfect) substitute.
Or a bath is another good one
Having had very severe depression in the past, my self-care was put on hold for weeks at a time at points. Thankfully, none of that stuff ever happened to me except for the fact that no one could be around me because I smelled so bad.
You are not alone! My self care goes out the window, because sometimes I'm my last priority. I'll take sink baths, but I have gone without shampooing (and sometimes even brushing) my hair for months. I've had to chop off my hair three separate times, due to debilitating depression. Mental illness is no joke whatsoever.
As someone with depression, this is something I know too well. I want to shower but my depression has built a huge invisible wall between me and the shower and its just too much effort to try to get over that wall. I wish ppl would understand that Im not making excuses. Im mentally unable to do it.
@@nekoboygames7786 I absolutely understand. You are absolutely not alone. I can care for others but my self-care is trash. I haven't cared for myself in four months plus. I'm looked at as less than. Mental illness is a real situation. But it comes across as less than normal.
While showering frequently/regularly is important, a lot of people who suffer from depression, sensory overload, etc. will hesitate to shower for a number of reasons. It might seem unbelievable to most people, but there are people out there who do go through this to some degree or another. And, sometimes, people just don't have access/the ability to bathe properly and/or regularly.
Agreed.
I have an anxiety disorder, it's not that I don't want to shower, it's not that I don't like showering, I just don't want to get into the shower, get soaked and then have a panic attack in the shower. Sometimes I'm fine with it and it takes no thought at all, other times I'm sitting there contemplating for at least 20 minutes.
@@gyrthez246 I totally understand. I have always battled severe depression and anxiety. Showering is something I have to really force myself to do. People around me have no idea how serious this struggle is. Cheers :)
@@gyrthez246 I get easily over stimulated and sometimes being in the shower triggers that (especially if the water isn't draining properly in the tub). I have depression and I can easily go a week without bathing or changing my clothes (and that's with me being medicated).
Don’t care
@@xdOreoMilk then why bother watching this informative vid and reading the comments? If I don’t care… I click off in a blink of an eye. Moving along now. Ps please have a shower. I can smell you from here. 🧼 🧽 🛁
I sweat a lot. It's excessive due to a medical problem. I have to shower daily. Sometimes twice in Summer. I don't like feeling sticky. Especially before bed. Everyone's body has different needs when it comes to showering. There are people who would be just fine with skipping showers for a number of days.
Yes it depends on the people. Some can go for days with no shower and are fine. But some need to shower daily.
Are you South indian?
I only shower once a month or so & now I understand why my groin pusses up
I'm 43 I spent around 20 years homeless. On multiple occasions I would go 3 to 6 months without bathing and never had any of the issues you mentioned.
soooooo gross
@@sentryogmixmaster shut up. why are people so disrespectful.
@@ryansullivan9192 haha you like people that smell like wastebins!
@@sentryogmixmaster There are some who shower but still stink too.
@@sentryogmixmaster ? He was homeless??
There’s a guy that hasn’t showers in 68 years he’s the world record holder
Yeah some iranian guy i think
Ewww
I hope he showers next year
@@tuks1131
This checks out.
His name is Amou Haji.
I recently did 1000 days of not showering
After a nasty spell of covid I was too ill to shower for several weeks. The amount of whiteheads and pimples I had was sickening.
Powdering up with baking soda would have made it much more tolerable. It often makes my pimples fall off painlessly when I use baking soda. Also absorbs the oils.
I only shower once a month or so & now I understand why my groin pusses up
the not showering was probably hurting your immune system and making your recovery longer lol
Personally I shower twice a day: Clean before going to work and clean before going to bed.
probably could skip the bedtime one...just wash your sheets when you do laundry every week.
This is totally exaggerated. My grandma grew up taking YEARLY baths along with everyone in her French village and she's healthy as a super healthy ox
Well the video did say you could go years without showering depending on your location, who you're around and how much you leave your house. Hmm
This channel has gotten me through so many bored and tiring days😂💙
You’re awesomely amazingly awesome! 💕
My personal rule of thumb is showering once or twice a week and then wash the smelliest areas like groin, pits, etc. Just with a wash cloth. Saves a lot of water too and my hair thanks me for not stripping away the oils constantly
I am doing that lately and my skin and hair are more moisturized. Showering daily makes my skin and hair very dry.
U greasy
Every card shop needs this playing on repeat.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that’s hilarious!
The one I went to sprayed fabreeze every time they closed
The one I went to sprayed fabreeze every time they closed
what’s a card shop
I can personally confirm that a great deal of information in this video is highly exaggerated and borders on being completely false.
people in the 13th century. whats a shower?
you smell bad
i have depression and ADHD (which is tied to sensory overloads, which i have frequently) and it makes it very hard for me to take proper care of my body. i've only recently started showering multiple times a week as i used to only shower once a week. anyway, there was once a time where i went longer than a month during summertime without a single shower. in that time period, i got a urinary tract infection and a worm infection due to the lack of showering. it ended up getting so bad that my mom took the doorknob out of the bathroom and put it in the other way and she locked me in the bathroom until i took a shower. nowadays i take much better care of myself although i still struggle a lot with other stuff like brushing my teeth regularly which i especially need to fix because i can't go to a dentist because of usa healthcare.
if you're taking good care of yourself, keep at it. once you stop taking care of your hygiene, it's hard to start taking care of yourself again.
Wow, I'm in that situation, but I haven't gotten an infection since I started using baking soda. Congrats on having better mental health. I don't have any caring people around me like your mom. They actually said that I'd "get serious when I'm on my own" like they planned to abandon me.
You are lucky you still have your mom around. My beloved mother passed away but I was always independent and took care of her and others to the point that I neglected myself. The longest I went without showering was a month and it was a pain. It was because I was stressed taking care of her and others that I neglected myself. I hope to live in my own one day and take care of myself only. Taking care of others is a pain, especially when they don’t appreciate it.
Your gross brudda
As somebody who else has adhd and depression I thank you for sharing this with me
You can always take a bath instead
Guy I used to work with went years without showering or even washing his clothes.
That's really unhealthy for personal hygiene 🤨
Jeff... ??
Really? That is creepy.
Is he still alive now?? Thats gross lol
I went 3 years, but my clothes were always clean
During the start of covid I lost my home to foreclosure but the bank allowed me to stay in the home, though they didn't allow me to turn the water back on I lived like that for over a year and a half and I didn't catch anything even while I recovered from a surgery so as long as you're smart about things you can go pretty long without it
Cap
@@nickthetick1723 and you're entitled to think so
Wow, not having water or power in an occupied building is illegal here.
@@chrishorton5660 your all cap
You're
I live in a van I've gone a month during covid without. Thank God planet fitness is open again
it's called a water faucet or hose. you can find them around.
If you live in America, get your fuel from the larger truck stops like ta/petroleum, pilot/flying j, loves. Make sure you get a rewards card. Over time you build up points for free showers. Some service areas have free showers..
@@sentryogmixmaster picking on one person not enough for you? You gonna scroll the comments and call every person that's down on their luck a lazy pos? You clearly have no idea what struggles being homeless brings. I'm not allowed to walk up to a random persons house and start using their hose for a shower. I'm not allowed to walk into Walmart and use their sink as a shower. I'm not allowed to do several things that you tell people to do
@@Oxycotton are you allowed to fill out an application at Wendy's?
@@sentryogmixmaster I fail to see where you're going with this. Yes I can apply to Wendy's. I have a job. I work 35+ hours a week. I still live out of my car because life isn't always easy
As someone with depression and a physical disability, I have experienced a few of these, but the longest I've ever gone without a shower is 2 and a half weeks.
No your just musty 🤮
Same
@@V0YX You need help.
I shower 1-2 times a day. Feels great.
Me too
I'm at 2-3. My OCD is horrible.
After reading these comments I felt like I showered too much. I have to shower 1-2 times a day, or at least at night after a day of work
I only shower once a month or so
The longest I went was about a month thanks to my mental health tanking, thankfully I'm always home and not particularly active. I just felt gross so I managed to take a long shower
This really makes me wonder how our ancient ancestors survived at all.
Well there life span was much shorter then ours
I think a lot of them did shower in lakes or rivers or at least cleaned themselves with cloth and stuff.
Disease did spread a lot more back then
They washed themselves with bit of water and rags
Personally I bathe daily, but there are some times when I go a day or 2 without simply due to laziness. By day 2 I stink and I start to itch. By day 3 I itch all over and feel all grimy due to sweat and whatever that sweat has stuck to my body to the point that I can't sleep.
Yo this video is definitely exposing people’s hygiene habits lol. I wash up daily.
I spent 3 months in the hospital and they were giving me sponge baths. I still remember how gross I felt. You can’t clean every nook and cranny with a sponge bath..this was back in 2019 and I’ve been taking 3 showers a day ever since 😩
Since I do sports I shower twice a day, but if you do no physical activity a morning shower would be ideal due to sweating over night
Coming from the Caribbean... everyone here bathes at least 2x each day and we are disgusted by anything less
Foreigners who migrate here usually struggle with this and one can usually tell because we sweat a lot here just on a daily basis. It's led to stereotypes that all Europeans smell bad 😂
Someone close to them would usually tell them in time though before the smell gets too out of hand
It honestly depends on the countrys climate. When its cold you hardly sweat and bathing 2x a day is a waste of time, energy and resources.
If you've lived in a cold climate then you know what Im talking about..
Yeap most Europeans only shower once a day which is fine in winter but summer you need at least 2 a day. I hate the smell in the summer months body odour everywhere
As a Dominican I can verify this is 100% it. 2 showers a day is standard.
Same for me I'm from Togo West Africa but I'm a U.S. citizen my parents here and there joke on how Americans don't take enough showers.
I'm from the UK and have a shower twice a day lol
Before modern times people rarely bathed. One of the reasons behind King John is so hated and this is no joke was because he would dare to bathe 4 times a year and insisted that his clothes were washed.
This is literally anyone at a video game/anime convention
I've got an uncle that just gave up showering, he smells so bad that we can smell him from other rooms on the house
I remember watching The challenge guy do this, I look forward to more his challenges and his supporting girlfriend
The cartoon character is so simple and basic, and the narrator tells facts so cheerfully now put this together and you got a TH-cam channel HIT!!
I have severe depression and showering is one of the things I never have energy to do. I know I'm disgusting and gross and need to, but every time I think about it or go try, I just..... Can't. I hate it.
aw man, i really hope you get better. please try to focus on your mental health before anything
I'm right there with you, boo. It's hard to make yourself a priority. I consider it a win, that I keep brushing my hair, although I haven't probably washed in months.
I get this sometimes too, brushing my teeth is another one.
I have OCD as well, yet I just never have the energy to do these things unless it gets so bad.
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I was homeless living out of my car for three months and I had red painful rashes on my skin that looked and felt like sunburn. The first time I could pay for a hotel and some new clothes and a bottle of tequila I laid down on the back wall of the shower and just let the hot water spray me with my nasty clothes on while drinking the tequila for pain killer and gingivitis control( I wasn't brushing my teeth regularly either). I stripped off my nasty clothes and then re washed with soap 45 minutes later.
Had my first shower today in over a year, feel quite refreshed after it. I actually once went without a shower for 3 years. From 2015 until September 2018.
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@@ogueyratogeyrat7448 I shower regularly again now :)
That’s actually nasty bro wth
A urinary tract infection can lead to death if left untreated. It can lead to a bladder infection and then it can spread up the ureters to the kidneys. In some cases, it can lead to septicemia which is life threatening. UTIs are a common cause of death among hospitals. I treat patients with UTIs and practicing good hygiene is extremely important.
Fun Fact: Sliced bread was first manufactured by machine and sold in the 1920s by the Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri. It was the greatest thing since…unsliced bread?? Any other ideas?
Fun fact everything think in the video is a lie I haven't shower in a year because of Covid 19 😑
Fun fact. These bots are f**king annoying
@@xXxIVendettaIxXx same with the dislike button being gone
@@softlightlaboratory Big fax
Someone look that up
Love the groovy music in the background
Couldn't handle more than a month way back.
Not that I wanted to but sometimes life happens
Longest I’ve went without a shower is anywhere from 5-6 days. This is because I got Influenza A and I was too weak to take one, as I was dizzy, nauseous, and lightheaded, and it looked like the world was tipping over. I had a 103.3° fever.
I guess we must have evolved (de-evolved) dramatically since the invention of the shower. Which we haven't. The gist of this is, you can reduce your chance of getting sick by bathing a few times a year.
Indeed. Man survived for many thousands of years before bathing was a common thing. (of course, we also lived out in the weather, and generally, didn't live all that long.)
If you love somewhere cold and don't do very much or sweat you can get away with long period of time before showering 😂
While yes, showering is the most way effective in getting rid of filth in a timely manner. The concept of bathing and washing has been a thing as late as the 10th century (picture knights wearing pig skin boots because metal boots wasn’t a thing yet.) it was a nearly daily routine in any village to have its people wash and clean themselves at the nearest river before then washing clothes. And in other cases to the nearest bath tents where tub sized barrels where filled daily with water for cleaning use. (And if you were wealthy. These tubs would be filled with rose petals to give you a nice smell after.)
@@jfbeam who's to say people didn't bath in ancient times? actually it's very likely they used rivers, lakes etc. when possible instead of being unspeakably filthy all the time
Filipinos shower every day.
Proud of that.🙂
I wonce knew a family that tested the limits of not showering on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. Thank God I have never met anyone else who hated showering as much as they did. Just Saying.
Hahahaha thank you for your comment. You made me laugh out loud! 😂
I see nothing wrong with showering. Just don’t do it so often and you will be fine.
A lot of people in North Korea don’t shower at all until New Year’s Day.
All you have to do is ask someone at an anime convention...
Or a smash bros tournament
@@Die-Angst stereotype for a reason tho
@@Die-Angst I said nothing about Asians
When ppl get depressed... showers become not as important anymore. When I went through a horrible period on my life I only showerd about 2x a week. It was super pathetic and when I did bathe I was in there around 8 hours on average! Frickin Crazy time in my life. I think there has to be other people who understand what I'm speaking about. Just letting yourself get pathetic and vulnerable.
Showering twice a week is not bad. I think that is pretty clean as others have gone for way longer with no shower.
In the end of the 30s and start of the 40s there was a boxer, Tony Galento, that would refrain from showering weeks before the fights, one of his opponents described his smell of expired liquor and rotten tuna, he was one of the weirdest boxers to ever live, i really recommend checking his wikipedia
I read about him a while ago. Interesting fight strategy.🤢
Maybe he wanted to scare his opponents with his bad smell.
I think it depends on the climate and daily activities. In the Philippines, Filipinos shower everyday because of the tropical climate which the average person gets sweaty always..
In Brazil, we usually take AT LEAST one bath per day. You feel freshier, cleaner and happier with more showers!
No, that actually isn't good for your skin. I understand why people need a shower everyday, when they're living in hot places though.
How did I just now realize I wasn’t subscribed.. I’ve been watching this Channel for like 3 years
how do people even go into society with not showering for long amounts of time like someone is going to say something about it
They don't notice as it's not that bad. I did 1000 days and no one at work said anything, and we have plenty of "Karens"
Many don’t notice unless you smell very bad.
I noticed ppl who dont shower frequently dont wash their hands 🤦♂️.
Just got done seeing the story of the Turpin family. Wonder if some of this happened to them.
Right. She did say that they hadn't got to take a bath in almost a year. Dam that story is so sad! I think that's how i got the recommendation too.
Yes I just saw their story too. It was so sad and glad they escaped but heart they are still struggling to make it. Such a tragedy.
A doctor told someone I know to go wash up before he delivered her baby. She didn't like to take a bath.
Currently watching this with my parents
Tell them I said hi
Feel bad for home less people
Unless I'm sweating or smell from various reasons such as sweating from exercise or the weather, I tend to think twice a week is enough to wash, but I can bath/shower 2 times a day sometimes, or sometimes just twice a week lol
I live by the same philosophy. Unless I'm doing something that requires bathing before or afterwords (like a social thing, or finished working out, etc.), taking a shower everyday seems like excessive waste of water.
Ew
@@ChooseYourYTHandle lol! cheeky
I loved this vid! I had almost succumbed to MRSA which I believe is a severe type of staph infection, almost got sepsis and still live my life very wary of what I put ON and IN my body. Best believe I was showering every day prior though, so that probably wasn’t the reason for my suffering, but loved y’all breakdown abt this!
Props to the guy who didn’t shower for years and still hasn’t
This is something good to send to someone with depression
Some mentally disabled or ill and elderly are probably more likely to not bathe or shower...
The music is just, the highlight of this video. So GROOVY
I went over a year without showering and none of this happened to me as long as I changed my underwear every so often and used deodorant daily. It actually made me stop having an odor. The worst things that happened was my skin got kinda dry and if I would get sweaty and rub my arms or legs grime would flake off. Kind of gross but not the worst thing I’ve been through.
Eww.
Why did you go so long?
*inside thoughts*
man they just let anybody on youtube don't they?!
I have one of the most physical jobs there is. I shower 2 times a day. My wife is a every other day type and it grosses me out so bad.
i went an entire year without bathing. the human body is very durable.
@@Die-Angst Yet you're here replying?
Why did u stop bathing?
Personally I've gone 11 months but I use wet wipes because I'm a fall hazard and my tub too small
@@acecogburn7006 sounds like you need to put the spoon and fork down
Showering or bathing? Not bathing for a year is understandable. Not showering though...
This occors to those in nursing homes, rehab centers and other such places where staff is limited and theres alot of patients that need bathing and are not taken care of…..
Funny how this was uploaded the day I decide to skip showering for a night which I rarely do.
I used to have a patient that developped a psychological issue that made him totally refuse any wash whatsoever. Other than that issue, he had no dementia or anything. We couldnt bathe him as he had his legal rights to refuse it. Even if he wouldnt be legally able to consent by himself, he was too strong and mentally here to be washed. We never understood what brought him to be afraid of showering or even basic daily cleansing. Hes still alive today, hes really old. He didnt shower for .... years probably. He doesnt seem to have any of those signs in the video, thank god!! Except a foul smell of course....
My later father was like that for the final years of his life. He refused to shower and became literate scared of water saying that it was cold. By the time he passed away, he most likely did not shower for years.
That background music is pretty annoying.
Yup lol like hear the lyrics not the music come on infographics
My record is about a month and a half. Not by choice, I was in Iraq and essentially cut off. Seriously gross, would never deal with it again
I remember back in basic training we had to basically throw a guy in the shower who decided to go a week without a shower
I’ve actually learned a lot from watching you guys some useless information some useful I just like springing the info I learn here on people I know irl 🤞🏾
I believe the real harm come from not bad hygiene but from the toxic environment. I mean look animals in the nature don't bath, don't brush their teeth, but aren't they perfectly well?
Animals do bathe and/or groom themselves though
There is difference. Animals don't go to school, job etc. Does that mean we shouldn't too.
@@savage101. Not all of them do it or can do it properly like we do. But none of them brush their teeth.
Longest I’ve gone is..17 days. At that point you don’t even smell yourself or others
So in life you can't be a total slob or a total clean freak you just have to find a way to balance both form of life.
League of legend players: allow me to introduce myself
Smell is temporary Bad health is eternal
I work at a hospital and I shower daily. I know a patient that never would shower,they claimed the water hurt them. The patient ended up dying from spehsis.
Am I the only one who remembers that guy who hasn’t showed in 70 years, he’s still alive and still hasn’t showed yet
I know guys who don't show for atleast a year and they are more powerful and healthy than even some atheletes.
Yeah, and there are rare sightings of him, I can't recall his name, oh yeah Bigfoot! That's it!
Aged like milk, he died
This is all new information to me, I really enjoyed this video
You forgot one more thing. If you don't shower for a long time, you'll become a Smash Bros. Player.
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I shower once every few months. No washing at all. I dont smell horribly or al all, even my gf says so. I just change clothes once or twice a week. For us both its like a experiment. I hate to shower when its cold and hate it even more when the shower itself is not powerful enough.
Where do you live?
not gonna lie when I was in middle school I never took a shower. I would only wet a rag down and wipe my pits and call it good, maybe on a good day I'd throw on deodorant (luckily I never was an incredibly stinky kid i think)
i still only shower once a year at christmas whether i need one or not
OK, so I completed my mission earlier this year and went 1000 days without showering. I can tell you that my natural biome ended up removing most body odor. No one commented at work and people were happy to work alongside me (They didn't know). I would periodically use hot water and scrub away on pits and bits. I also exfoliated my feet as they need to be looked after. But yeah, you don't die. Was really nice to have a long hot shower at the end of the 1000 days though
Impossible
Everyone knew they just acted like they didn't.
Thank you for all the videos and information you give in details it's very helpful
I remember when i was a kid my older brother stopped showering unbeknownst to my parents and he ended up with scabies and after that he was all for the shower lol
I sometimes shower once every two days. Usually once a day
That’s healthy. Doctors recommend showering 3-4 times a week.
I just got out of the shower when this came out. What a surprise.
@@Die-Angst I got out the shower when the notification came out for this video.
I got recommended this right before I took a shower
Shower once a month for a stronger immune system.
IDK. After even one day without a shower (so if I showered every other day, even if I don't leave the house) I start to feel sort of grimy from not showing. Maybe it's a psychological thing but I find I have to shower every day at the very least. And even if I don't sweat or whatever (so like the winter, I know some people who don't shower every day because they're like "I don't sweat during the winter so I can go a day without a shower). It could also be because I've been around people who smelled like they needed a shower and so I'm like "I never want to smell like that" so I just make it routine to shower every day, and twice daily if I get really sweaty during the day (like in the summer).
For the dandriff part I've also heard that washing your hair too much can also lead to this, particularly if you have hard water or something like that. I've been told by some doctors that you really only need to wash your hair maybe every other day, and more often if you're sweating, but under normal circumstances, every other day is suitable and recommended. I sort of half-believe this but I think there is some merit to the suggestion, as too much washing your hair could also lead to a dry scalp too.
Claim you're "here within an hour" ticket herE
Ok
These guys always got the most information each video.
This is a lie I haven't shower in a year before because of Covid 19 I stayed inside and haven't 🚿
Can you shared what happened to you?
@@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj I just started to smell, itch a little more because my hair was so dry, ever time I got wet from something I would whip it off my clothes then dry it off by fanning it, and I could clean my toilet because my last 🪠 broke so you know "Dirt" started to grow on it and again I just dried off what ever got me wet.
@@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj took a shower when it got to hot one day so yeah nothing really happens you just smell even when you walk you can smell yourself sometimes and that really stinks 🦨😩
@@softlightlaboratory Thanks for sharing and I kind of know how it is since my late dad did not shower for like a year too. He was just lazy and depressed as he got very sick. He was just smelly and lots of dry skin flakes fell off his body. His skin did get messed up too. But it was also due to his bad health not just due to not showering.
@@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj so it is genetics
I have adhd an I have a hard time remembering to shower. Thank you for scaring me cause I’ll remember this and shower more often
When I first heard of a STAPH infection as a kid, I thought you got it from the STAFF in HOSPITALS (doctors and nurses and other workers there) and it was called a STAFF INFECTION.
@@Die-Angst yet you reply... So clearly you care
Maybe it’s because I was taught to be hygienic, but it does seem strange and bothersome that people would want to reject showers and baths. I don’t agree with doing either every day of the week or twice a day, but you really should consider washing your skin at least once a week. Your skin will dry out and you will look and smell like that Iranian guy who hasn’t bathed in several years.