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OCD and confessing
If you’ve ever felt the urge to confess everything—even the tiniest intrusive thought or something from years ago—you’re not alone. OCD can turn confession into a compulsion, not because you’ve done something wrong, but because you’re desperate to feel “clean,” honest, or morally okay. This graphic breaks down some of the ways confession shows up in OCD. If any of these feel familiar, know this: having these urges doesn’t make you a bad person. It means your OCD is trying to hijack your values. Have you experienced confessing as a compulsion?