How do you guys manage telling your family about your ocd? I left a book with notes from therapy in it and one of my family members went in my room while it was open. Now I'm freaking out they read it. I'm scared to talk about my sexual orientation OCD to anyone in my family because I worry they won't get it.

My advice is just say you have OCD thoughts and leave it at that

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Actually i broke down couple months ago, i couldn't even eat my food and i hugged my mom and cried and told her my gay intrusive thoughts. She told me its okay she has intrusive thoughts here and there. I'm a guy in case you don't know

Same boat as you, i told my friend about it, he's heen distant since then, which pissed me off

I told them briefly about it, like only one of the themes I experience, harm ocd. That was the easiest to tell them but they still aren't sure what it exactly feels like and it's okay, they don't know how it feels, only we know, all they can do is believe in us and support us without giving meaningless advices that could actually trigger us more and harm us.

i wrote my mom a long text with links and stuff about it. she wants to get me help but i don’t want my dad to know and i really dont want to talk about it so i haven’t gotten help yet. i’m reluctant to tell anyone just in case it is not ocd, and also i know they wouldn’t understand and they would judge me.

The truth is, it is hard but worth it. For 2 years I did not tell them until I broke down. My dad was little bit angry, why I did not told him earlier because he wanted to be for me there.

It was soooo tough. I finally just had to tell someone and I talked to my mom. I was so worried my family wouldn’t love me and that they would reject me. After I opened up about it, the thoughts disappeared. I think you’ll find the same is true for you.