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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 :)
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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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Explaining*
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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
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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
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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.
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Just told my parents other day and they blamed it on me and growled at me ??
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- 24w
I have OCD, but my parents don’t understand what I’m going through. All I wanted was for someone to be by my side and support me, but they dismiss my struggles, telling me to "just stop thinking" and that I’m making a big deal out of nothing. When I asked for a new therapist because my current one isn’t helping—she isn’t even an OCD specialist—they became angry and didn't believe I need therapy and instead blame me for everything. My father was so mad, he insist to gave me a knife and kill myself. He threatened to isolate me completely, cutting me off from school, the internet, and everything else. My mom cried and shut me down when I tried to explain my pain. They refuse to listen and my dad said it’s all my fault. That day they threw me outside the house for a night, and called me back in telling me to forget everything and forgive them, but I understood that I will not be able to mention anything about my mental health or seeing an OCD specialist ever again, I am completely alone now. With no financial support, and now I don’t know if I’ll ever get the proper therapy I need. I’m only 15, but it feels like I’ll be trapped in this suffering forever, I feel hopeless, I feel like shit, I am going to suffer forever with no support and help.
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- 23w
Im 21 years old, I had ocd seen I was 14 when it started it stopped me from telling anyone I have it. It was really bad at the time and I had no clue how to deal with it I even was able to kill myself at one point but decided to have hope it would get better. In time it did got better but I had no clue what was wrong with me and I didn't want to tell anyone. Until this year I finally found out what it was and my ocd started getting bad again but I'm doing better now. Is been 7 years but I really want my mom to know what I been through but I feel like if I tell her it hurt her and I feel bad for not telling her when it started. I just need same help getting the courage to tell her.
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- 15w
So I recently got diagnosed with ocd, and due to me growing up in a household who doesn’t believe in it I have an even harder time grasping if it’s a real diagnosis or not. I know it is but my parents still get mad at me when I tell them not to reassure me and things like that, since they don’t want to understand me anytime. They always put the blame on me and they do everything and how I’m ungrateful. I am very greatful but I told my mom to try to understand this condition but she refuses to, my dad just completely ignores that it exists. It’s just hard to cope around it and not be stuck in a loop, I’m leaving in a few months after graduating so hopefully that will help. It’s hard when my parents don’t want to try to understand what I go through.
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