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- 3y
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Yes, OCD can give you the urge to tell your thoughts. Confession is a compulsion. Sometimes it can bring temporary relief but in the long-term, it just feeds the OCD cycle.
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I literally just told this guy literally this “so remember when this happened? Well it went from ‘was I actually flirting?’ To ‘was a cheating?’ To ‘well if I was flirting, that means I like him’ to ‘what if I do like him?’ To ‘well I don’t love my husband anymore’. He said he understands because his fiancé has anxiety badly and gets bad thoughts like that and it just keeps spiraling. I’m just scared that he is going to tell someone and they will take it the wrong way because it was only my intrusive thoughts and how my brain works with anxiety… ):
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Confession has been one of my main compulsions
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Whenever I do a confession, I always always always have major anxiety from it. I always feel like it’ll help but it never does. Idk why I keep doing it
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I'm the same way! Often when I confess I feel anxious immediately after. I think I have the idea that it will help because of what I was taught in religion growing up - "confess your sins and you will be forgiven". But I'm with you, it often doesn't help.
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- 3y
I specifically told him that these are only thoughts and that they are in no way true. I said I like you, but only as a friend. In no way shape or form in any other way. I just don’t know why I did it. I even said in my head “no don’t do it. Don’t do it” and I fricken did :( and I told my husband about it and he’s mad at me and said that I should keep that stuff to myself that’s for nobody else to know about
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I had no idea confession was a compulsion, I just thought I couldn’t live with guilt. This makes so much sense now!
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I have something similar, since I believe a couple years ago I have had intrusive thoughts about cheating on my girlfriend with almost any girl that comes across me, mostly when she's near my age or sometimes when I'm alone I just get a thought and I ask myself "what if it actually happened? What if I did cheat on her? I don't wanna lose her" and the cycle continues all on the fear on losing her because she is my whole world, and that has also led me to have nightmares about it and I just can't say that I'm 100% sure I didn't do such thing, because I also don't want to lie. I know about ERP but I really don't know how to make it work in this situation, that has worked in other situations and I overcame OCD on those but this one is the strongest and most complicated one I've ever had, and I have had every OCD trigger that you can think of, but evolves as I overcome them and become stronger, just like a Virus or a Bacteria.
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Learn from it and do different next time💜
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Yes all my bad thoughts revolve around my husband and they are so bad because of the fear of losing him. You are correct on that one. I’m just absolutely terrified that this person is going to tell someone or his fiancé and it is going to be all hell broke lose and I lose my husband from it. I have bad thoughts like this constantly and gives me such intense anxiety. I love my husband literally more than absolutely anything on this planet. I would be nothing without him. Why do I keep doing this to myself
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- 22w
I’ve had so many moments of clarity with my OCD that I love my boyfriend and I’m beyond willing to go through this to be better and be with him. in the back of mind I’ve in a way known I was at least somewhat sexually attracted to women (I’m a woman) since the start of the ocd it was always like “okay. Fine, but I don’t want to date a girl” I only just realized this after the ocd started, I never really argued with this. my ocd has always revolved around if I’m romantically interested in women and not men. I’ve done so many compulsions through this year and a half and 9 times out of 10 have come to the conclusion that I don’t want to be with a woman romantically. I always end up feeling like I know I love my boyfriend. But the doubts don’t stop about whether I want to spend my life with a woman instead, my heart literally breaks to think of not being with my bf and imagining him with someone else. I don’t want to be with a woman I know deep down somewhere underneath the anxiety that that’s not what I want. It doesn’t feel natural for me, unfulfilling. I want to tell my boyfriend about the possible sexual attraction to women (ik it’s still ocd related) but I’m scared that once I tell him, I’ll realize that I actually do want to be with women and not with him. Ugh I’ve spent hours today ruminating about this after being solid in my commitment with him for a little while, I’m stuck in this loop and idk how to get out right now
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I just got off my session today and after having a confession to my husband last night with a compulsion, he obviously is going to have more questions. My therapist says not to confess because I am growing my OCD . However, this is really OCD and is about something that actually happened. My husband said, that it sounds like I have someone in my life who is justifying withholding information or lying to him. Of course when I have my obsession compulsions, he makes sense. Can somebody help explain this to me? How is my husband not right or is he?
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- 17w
i’ve been dealing with this “thing” since i was 15. (i’m 23 now) if i have a bad memory that i have done when i was really young or just an intrusive thought i feel like i need to tell my mom or boyfriend. it’s been on and off ever since but since January hit it’s been an everyday thing about the littlest things. mostly about my relationship. an example is i was talking to someone random at my job and we were talking about taxes and when im in deep thought or just thinking i do a thing where i bite my lip (not in the sexual way) and i had a thought when it happened “was that sexual?” and i felt like i did something wrong and i went for a while thinking that until i told my boyfriend about it. or like my ex’s face has popped up in my head in the most inappropriate times and i feel the need that i have to tell him. (my ex was not a good person) i feel like im a prisoner in my head everyday, trying to justify thoughts or remind myself that its just a thought. i didnt know that this was or could be a form of ocd. it runs in my family but i’ve just never considered it being this. i always called it anxiety or depression but i always felt like it is more than that.
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