How open are you all about your ocd? Do you ever tell anyone? Right now everyone at work thinks I’m perfectly happy and that everything in my world is great. When in reality everything is falling apart and I’m depressed. It’s so hard when someone makes a comment like “you’re so perfect” or “you’ve got your life so together” when they don’t know what you’re going through and what mental battles you have to fight literally every minute of every day. This is why I want to tell the people around me, but I’m also worried they won’t understand. Can anyone relate to this?

Only three people know about my OCD besides my mom, therapist and psychiatrist. My English teacher, orchestra teacher and best friend are the only people I’ve told and the only reason I told my English and orchestra teachers are because I am going to miss their class every other week. I want people to know, but then I also don’t. I don’t want to be known as the kid with OCD and get teased about a serious mental illness that people think is just liking things organized. But then I also think it would help people to understand why I do what I do. So I can definitely relate.

my best friend, one of my writing partners and my mum know about it. my mum's always been supportive and my writing partner and friend both have similar mental health issues. im planning to tell my (for lack of a better term) "love interest" and im so scared, so i feel you. i don't want her to misunderstand (when i tried to tell my counsellor and she didn't get it which stressed me out so much)

Pretty much all my friends and family know about it, my boyfriend and 4-5 best friends no everything though

I can relate to this so much, yeah any really close friends of mine know as do my family , but so far telling new people is something I’ve been avoiding mostly because I find I’ll be more tempted to ask them for reassurance for my spikes. But it’s hard to open up about it and it’s something although I do want to work to end the stigma of , I also want the option of having a certain degree of privacy with

My boyfriend and my parents know, but that’s about it. I feel like I put up such a good show that people don’t ever realize that I’m struggling. I’ve been debating whether or not I want to tell more people about it, but I still feel like there’s a lot of stigma :/