If I don’t confess to my mom now I can’t sleep at all and then can’t function the next day. I overcame all of this and was on medication but I lost my job and just got out of a bad relationship with a guy who made my ocd much worse, so I’m back to confessing all the bad things I’ve done to my mom. She was a perfectionist when I was growing up and would think any small thing was the end of the world (and I think that contributed to my ocd developing). Now I bring up embarrassing things I’ve done for reassurance that nothing bad will come from it but it’s stuff too embarrassing to tell your mother. I don’t have insurance now for medication and I try to meditate and use cbd oil or vitamins but nothing works and I resort to wine and cigarettes to calm my stress.

Hello, i know how it feels i did this al the time when i was younger. And i still have the urge to do this to my boyfriend. Maybe you can try to practise not to tell everything.. like you tell one thing en keep one thing to yourself.. the next day it will feel less urgent to tell and so on it will become less and less. Maybe that will help you.. i know it helped me. I forgot a lot of things over time.. ??? it will be oke!

I am literally going through this right now. I’m new to the app, and I’m amazed to see how similar a lot of our problems are. I do this. It’s reassurance. It’s also almost a mechanism to ensure that they are helping you make the decision, so you don’t have the responsibility of what you do. But that’s Bc you feel what you do deserves punishing. It doesn’t!

Be kind to yourself. It’s hard to handle a lot of stress and rapid changes when you have ocd. Start developing healthy longterm habits to cope with stress. It takes baby steps to get to the point where you’re managing ocd and are more in control of needing to confess to reduce stress. Exercising and good nutrition can make it easier. Try chewing gum instead of wine and cigarettes. It seems to help me. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4450283/

Thank you ?? I’m 26 now and have gone through years of therapy and progress and was living my life, but my traumatic breakup and getting fired really bought me back to square one. I was living in Dubai and weaned off my meds only to come back to New York working part time as a cashier waiting for my full time legal job to start. I don’t want to live my life on meds but I really can’t function without numbing my mind somehow.