Is my need to confess everything a sign of confession OCD?

Confession OCD

Anyone know anything about confession OCD that can tell me about it in a nutshell? I’ve always felt the need to tell everyone whatever is going on in my head and I feel guilty if I don’t. I would always tell on myself as a kid but not for the things I did wrong but instead for all the bad things in my head. Now I obsess over everything from my past and experience with other partners and have horrible guilt if I don’t tell my boyfriend absolutely everything that has ever happened or just things my mind gets stuck on. Only when he knows everything I can think of do I relax. Is this what confession OCD is? If not- does anyone else get the compulsion to get the truth out?

Username: sam i amsam i am

Date posted: 2y ago

Currently struggling with that, I try to hold off from confessing but the guilt that I’m experiencing makes me feel so bad I tend to cry out of frustration. And my partner ends up finding out that way.

Username: EnyaEnya

Date posted: 2y ago

It really is horrible! One thing that gives me hope is having experienced improvement of one of my OCD themes by doing ERP. I hope, that tackling my other OCD themes by doing ERP will help reduce my sympthoms, including the urge to confess, too.

Username: happymemories:)happymemories:)

Date posted: 2y ago

@sam i am oh my god i thought i was the only one! im trying so hard to break the pattern but it’s so hard and the guilt feeling eats me alive so i just cry to try to let it go

Username: EnyaEnya

Date posted: 2y ago

I often feel like that, too... But I try to refrain. I confessed to my new partner once in the months we are together, then I sought for forgiveness from him for the thing I have confessed. I told him later on, that I shouldn't have confessed, that I shouldn't have sought reassurance and that he is not supposed to give reassurance to me. I try to stay strong and not confess to him again, that's the only thing I can do.

Username: happymemories:)happymemories:)

Date posted: 2y ago

i struggle with the same things <\3

Username: friend_to_kittiesfriend_to_ki...

Date posted: 2y ago

I thought I was the only one. I experience this for sure.

Username: sam i amsam i am

Date posted: 2y ago

The earliest memory I have with confession ocd is around the age of 6/7, and it’s been apart of my life since. I’m 23 now, and I struggle with this everyday. I have a partner I love very much, too much. And I also, feel the need to confess every single thing to him. But it has slowly started to negatively effect him. So I’m currently trying to find out my own internal tools to help bypass the unnecessary urges to impulsively confess everything, at least not right away. I’ve been trying to give myself more and more time to examine my thoughts and identify where they’re coming from. I can’t lose him. And I’ve been afraid that if I don’t start battling my ocd, it’ll take over me and everything I love.

Username: bella k

Date posted: 4y ago

Does anyone else have the compulsion to confess? Even if I haven’t actually done anything my OCD will give me reasons that whatever I’ve done has either hurt someone or will cause people to dislike me. Is that just me?

Username: Coffeelover11

Date posted: 1y ago

Anyone else experience this?

Does anyone struggle with real event ocd and having to confess to their partner? I have so many regrets on things I’ve either done or thought and feel like I can’t move on or be better until I’ve been forgiven for them. Mostly things that happened a couple years ago and I don’t know why it’s all of a sudden bothering me now but it makes me feel like I’m the worst person ever. I’m even questioning how I thought or felt during that time and I’m confessing to thoughts or things I may or may not have done or thought. It’s so confusing and I feel trapped in my own head. If anyone has any tips I would appreciate it. Thank you for you time

Username: aneyh

Date posted: 45w ago

How do you deal with confession urges?

I have a really awful event. One that required a lot of non-OCD related confessions to my gf. It happened 4 years ago. I don’t really consider any of my thoughts around this event to be OCD related, because it was actually THAT BAD, and I actually should feel the things I’m feeling. The problem that keeps coming up is my urge to confess more details. The thing I did wasn’t one event, but a series of awful events. My girlfriend doesn’t want to know anymore details. She says no matter how bad it is, she doesn’t want to know anymore. I keep getting memories of details that I’m worried would end our relationship if she knew. I’ve confessed so many awful details and she hasn’t left me yet, but there are so many genuinely terrible things that I thought, felt, intended, and acted on. With the thought that revealing a detail could end my relationship, how am I not supposed to confess? I feel like I am tricking her and she doesn’t understand the full extent of my depravity. When she looks at me with love I feel sick and unworthy. She doesn’t want me to confess anymore, my therapist doesn’t want me to confess anymore, and these memories are just sitting in my head, eating away at my soul. I feel so alone. I feel like most of you can probably guess the nature of what I did and might not appreciate me posting about it here. I’m sorry, I just need someone to talk to…

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