- Username
- Keepongoing
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Is my OCD causing me to feel the urge to admit something?
Admitting?
I think my ocd is making me have an urge to “just admit something”. Has anyone else had this feeling?
Admitting?
I think my ocd is making me have an urge to “just admit something”. Has anyone else had this feeling?
Yes, I have experienced this too. It is a compulsion called confessing. It’s where you have this intense need to tell someone something that you did or said. For me it happens usually when whatever it was that I did or said is making me feel bad about myself. Then for me, I want to feel better about myself & my ocd says confessing it to someone will make me feel better. For me it also goes right along with another compulsion, that is reassurance seeking from others. Try to sit with how you are feeling. Allow the distress to be there without doing a compulsion. The anxiety you feel will rise the longer you sit with it, but eventually it will come down on it’s own. You can do it. Your brain will say that you can’t handle feeling the distress you are feeling, but you can. It just takes lots of practice. And lots of having compassion for yourself while you do this.
@Trish1014 Can/have you felt a compulsion to confess to your self? Or is it only compulsion confessing when it is to others
@Keepongoing For me it is mostly to my therapists over the years. Sometimes it will be like finally admitting it to myself, as well as while I am confessing it too.
Yep, all the time, allthough lately it doesn't feel like an urge, just something I wanted to do, withouth much anxiety
Yes I have as well. Since you have soocd under one of your tags and is what I struggle with that mainly its what I can relate to. For me it made me almost come out to my family and it felt that I really wanted to. The thought came into my head again It was scary but I had to ignore it. Funnily enough I imagined a whole scenario in which I did come out to my family and ended my relationship due it . I laughed at it. But yes all in all, it is one of the things of ocd.
@Anonymous Thank you for your response! This is the theme I struggle with the most :( Certainly I keep getting stuck in the backdoor spike and the cycle starts again
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?
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?
Ugh some days I’m 100% sure I did it….others im 80% then It’s 50% then it’s 20%…then it’s back to 100% the urge to confess is so huge I can’t just sit with it….I kinda told my mom somewhat….and she didn’t wanna hear because she knows about confessing with ocd and that people shouldn’t give in to it or give reassurance but I really think I did this awful thing….my brain is convinced I need to type of consequence….as if having ocd isn’t a bad thing already 😒
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