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feeling the need to “confess” is a classic ocd symptom
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Are you doing this to seek reassurance? I would try to ask yourself why you want to talk to them about it. I struggle with real event ocd sometimes as well as well as other types like harm, suicide, etc. I am doing my best to just sit with this uncertainty and allow myself to use my own strength to not engage in reassurance seeking or anything like that. I still feel crappy today, but i have forced myself multiple times to not engage the urge to google things, seek reassurance from people, etc. Like i said, i still feel crappy today but i don't feel as bad today as i did earlier this week.
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Just worried if they would truly accept me, which I guess is seeking reassurance in a way. I just feel dishonest not telling them
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@Anonymous I get very similar thoughts. I want the people in my life to accept me, but at the same time i feel like it's part of a reassurance-seeking attempt when i go to them with things like this hoping they will still try to be there for me despite my obsessions. I try to tell myself to accept my past, live differently than my mistakes, allow these OCD thoughts to burn out without compulsively addressing them, but it is really hard sometimes.
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@intrusivedaily It really is a nightmare. I’m hoping the urge to confess just gets less intense
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I’m currently in a very emotionally stressful situation with my partner. We had a huge argument because I did something I had promised not to do again: I looked at my ex-partner’s profile. To me, it didn’t have any real emotional meaning. It was impulsive, meaningless, almost automatic. But my partner was deeply hurt – and I understand why. I told him about it. We talked. It was hard. But after that, things got even worse for me. I suddenly remembered that it didn’t just happen once. And since then, I’ve been stuck in this thought loop and I don’t know if it’s OCD or not So, should I tell him that it was more than once?”– if I should tell him, even if it might mean he’ll leave me. Should I confess this? I urgently need advice. I don’t know if this is OCD or not – the thought suddenly came to me in that situation. I have been formally diagnosed with OCD. But if I know that my partner would see this as very serious and might possibly leave me over it – shouldn’t I still tell him? I feel so awful and I’m having panic attacks. Is this OCD?
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