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@Stay.Fluid I was obsessing over things I’ve done in my life and constantly confessing where I eventually hit this big episode where I started confessing basically everything that I had obsessed over before. The person I would always confessed to told me that I wasn’t a bad person and everything I did wasn’t out of the normal. So I feel like I ran out of things to confess so I had nothing to freak out over. Im asking this bc my psychiatrist told me that people with ocd don’t have pauses or breaks. (Sorry if this is long)

@Chel_d This is exactly what I’ve been experiencing for the past 9 months and I don’t know what to do anymore because I have no one to confess to. Can you please share some advice on how to overcome this?

@AlbertS My therapist always says resist the compulsion. Don’t confess. There is no reason for you to. And eventually when you tell your OCD, hey OCD, thanks for being here but I’m going to continue what I value doing today, the need to confess loses strength and power over you. It takes practice to shrug it off, but repetition is how you rewrite those neural pathways. It’s worth it to get your life back.

@Chel_d Does your therapist specialize in OCD? If so, this would be a pretty odd response. OCD looks different for everyone.

@AlbertS Confessing is a compulsion and a compulsion is a temporary fix. Every time I confessed I felt better but only for a moment. Confessing changes nothing. The best thing you can do for yourself is except and move on, you can’t go back in time whether that’s changing what you did or seeing exactly what you did so there’s no point in obsessing. It’s always a cycle. You basically have to sit in your discomfort, it’s for sure going to suck but it should stop you from constantly going in circles. Every time I had to sit there and do nothing because i couldn’t confess it sucked but I eventually moved on after a bit. Going outside and doing things definitely helped. It’s never good to just sit there with your thoughts. But things that work for me might not work for you. I hope you feel better and know you’re not alone! (Sorry that this is so long)

@Stay.Fluid She’s my psychiatrist and she was doing a screening for ocd, so she was asking the stereotypical questions about it and stuff. She told me at first that she thinks I have anxiety with ocd tendencies, one of the reasons being that it isn’t constant and I don’t have many physical compulsions but after I told her a couple things she said ocd. But since that appointment I’ve been overthinking things and questioning whether or not I actually have ocd because it isn’t constant for me, if I have nothing to overthink about I’m fine and I don’t spiral because I mostly overthink moral type of stuff. Idk I know there’s no point in constantly thinking about it so I just have to wait till my next appointment.

@Chel_d I think you can do a free consult with someone who specializes if you’re open to that. Many people don’t realize a lot of mental compulsions they have from ocd. After meeting with my therapist she pointed out many I had not even noticed. Anxiety and ocd have a lot of similarities 🙂 Over thinking can also be rumination. It’s a lot to take in, but we are all here to support you for whatever! I struggle with anxiety too ❤️‍🩹