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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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When I talk about how terrible I used to be to my girlfriend it makes me feel like I’m gonna do it again which I don’t wanna do and it scares me and then I get intrusive thoughts and feelings about it doing it but I don’t want to, weird I know.
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I feel wrong because at one point i didn’t tell all my coworkers about my boyfriend because i wasn’t sure if we would break up or not and i wanted to i guess keep my options open and i thought one of my coworkers were cute and he also ended up being my plug later on but i never did anything with him i swear also he’s like 16 and i’m like 19 pregnant with my boyfriends baby do you think it’s ocd because i know if i tell my bf it would probably just make him angry
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