Do my parents need to know I have ocd? Like can I get over it without going to a therapist? Idk how my parents would react. It would make my mom a lot more stressed than she already is, plus idk what my dad would do. I just don’t want to be thought of different than I already am, and I know that I will be if they know I have ocd.

If you're a minor your parents need to know so that you can get proper treatment from an OCD therapist. If you're an adult that's up to you. However...OCD gets worse overtime. Anyone with OCD needs to see an OCD psychologist. You're going to have this for the rest of your life, but it's nothing to be ashamed of. So many people that have it have recovered from it and are managing it well. It's just an obstacle to over come :)

I haven’t told my parents, they knew I was suffering a lot last year when my OCD went into full gear and I had to go to a therapist and psychiatrist. I was vague with exposing to them what was happening , just told them I had a mental breakdown. I’m still going through it however, and therapy has helped a lot now I’m on meds too. Get help , don’t let it get worse. And when ur ready tell ur parents but you don’t HAVE too

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I tell my mom everything, my dad knows but I don’t think he knows how bad it is. You don’t have to tell them

I am in the exact same position. I fear if I tell my mum she will be disappointed in me and won’t think of me the same. I can’t tell my dad cause he doesn’t know what it is and if I told him he probably wouldn’t care

i dont want to because i cant be bothered to explain it to them and i get near an anxiety attack whenever i want to talk to them. i’m going to leave it. i tried to talk to them about my depression before and they just shouted at me throwing it back at me. then they told me i have nothing to have depression about i believed them, i didn’t get help and it made it 10x worse.

Just told my parents other day and they blamed it on me and growled at me ??