I don't usually make a post like this, but I'm genuinely curious. I've read a few things/seen a few videos which sort of touched on it but I think only seen one post in here where somebody mentioned urges to do this. Confession-compulsions are pretty well known as being part of trying to relieve guilt and anxiety, and have links to perfection and moral OCDs. But who here has experienced false-confession-compulsions? I'd be interested to hear your experiences. I'm talking about something like when you have POCD and tell someone you're definitely a paedophile, or false memory OCD where you tell someone "I did a hit and run on the way home". Basically repeating whatever the OCD keeps telling you. I also know that statistically it's quite common for people to do it, sometimes people walk into police stations and claim to have committed a crime, also obviously happens a lot during interrogation (OCD pressure is a HELL of a lot like interrogation). I have responsibility/guilt/real event OCD and I've done it several times when I had been letting feelings dictate facts and didn't know that I had OCD, so I had reasoned the bit of it telling me "you're in denial, you did X/Y/Z" was my conscience. Yet even since finding out it was OCD it's been hard to fully pinpoint the reasoning behind it- I'm leaning towards thinking it was a combination of 1. To try to get guilt relief 2. To test whether saying it "felt right" 3. I just wanted some peace from the thoughts, like if I can just embrace that I'm an awful person maybe I can move on from that point. Of course it never actually worked. I think I probably got temporary relief for about 2 minutes before panicking about how I could've just said that. I've also had similar compulsions for years of when someone in the household says something like "who ate the last of the biscuits?" or "who moved my shoes?" or "did you leave this plate in here?", I always feel massive rushes of guilt and urges to say it was me when it wasn't. I even sound guilty when I deny it even though I didn't do the thing. Just wondering if anyone else has experiences to share? I've made a ton of progress on this with ERP/somatic processing in the face of guilt triggers, as well as working on codependency and complex trauma which have been factors in developing my type of OCD. I don't say the little things around the house were me when they weren't anymore, and even though it makes me feel guilty I try to stand my ground when something or somebody triggers guilt, rather than taking the feelings for facts or absorbing it as my truth.