Does anyone else get really nervous when telling someone about OCD/the thoughts you’re struggling with? I’m going to talk to a spiritual mentor today about it and am feeling anxious.
Yes!
Yes! And sometimes I overshare- but nobody *needs* to know details, but confessing can be a compulsion of mine so I feel I neeeed to, but being general is okay too!
I feel that. I probably did that a bit today! I also very subtly seek reassurance when I share. I don’t know if I’m sneaky or not from a recipient point of view, but I like to think I’m subtle enough to do it without the person talking to knowing I’m trying to do it. But my mentor was great about actually not even engaging those. I’d say something that I knew was a reassurance question framed in a way that doesn’t seem like it and he would redirect the question. Which was actually probably more helpful than giving me reassurance!
@Rous That’s awesome!!!! I had a friend like that, that would ignore anything I said that sounded like a confession and it made me angry at first bc they were not letting themselves be a reassurance but sooo helpful
