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.

rbheaton

Date posted: 6y ago

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 :)

RedMax

Date posted: 6y ago

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

RedMax

Date posted: 6y ago

Explaining*

lakd

Date posted: 6y ago

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

lylo

Date posted: 6y ago

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

Mahx

Date posted: 6y ago

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.

lylo

Date posted: 6y ago

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

hopelytle

Date posted: 17w ago

Question for those who have been in therapy

I am wanting to go to therapy to hopefully lower my OCD symptoms but I am terrified to tell anyone else, like a therapist, about my intrusive thoughts. Has anyone else had this experience and if so how did you get over it?

Anonymous

Date posted: 8w ago

Still not feeling okay

Last year I used and app to talk about my POCD and people called me a pedo and told me to kill myself. It has been months and I had even forgotten about it, but I talked about my mom yesterday and I feel a sense of doom now. Like, I could have lived my life normally, but this happened. I feel overhelmed, and don't know exactly what to do, cuz when I stop to think about it, it is something awful, but I spend months just not caring, I don't know what to do, it was not even close to the worst thing that has ever happened to me, but it still feels terrible, it keeps echoing in my mind, and It won't go away, and yes I know it is OCD, I just want to let It go. And I lied somethings to my mom cuz if I told the whole truth she would be even more heartbroken (I just didn't say what app it was and I said it was recently, and not months ago) And I feel bad, but now I can't go back, but if I told her the whole truth, she would've just broke down. Basically she thinks it was yesterday and in another app, and I told her I just commented on something. But I feel so bad! I don't want to tell the truth to her, but also, I don't know...

🤍 Mathew 🤍

Date posted: 7w ago

Advice to telling my mom i have Ocd

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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