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- 6y ago
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- 6y ago
I think it’s so important to tell your family, if you feel safe, about your OCD. You deserve the support and understanding they can provide you with. They can be a key aspect to your recovery and help you with all forms of treatment. I couldn’t do this without my family. d a i s y
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- 6y ago
I told my parents about my intrusive thoughts. It was really hard but I’m grateful that I did because they have been very supportive and they have been there for me.
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- 6y ago
It is entirely up to you. If you feel comfortable to tell them then you can do so. If you need to tell them in order to get treatment, then that gives a lot more reason to do so. I have struggled with OCD for about 10 years and have only ever told one person about it. And that was only about a little over a year ago. I believe I read somewhere that the average amount of time between the onset of OCD and seeking treatment is a decade. Which is crazy, but I understand why that is the case. Moral of the story: If you need to tell your family in order to get treatment, I strongly urge you to do so. You have nothing to be ashamed of with having this disorder. It has taken me way too long for me to realize that. None of us asked to have this disorder.
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- 6y ago
I agree with pineapple :) it’s entirely up to you. If they understand and are supportive, that’s awesome. However not everyone will understand or want to hear it or be willing to be supportive. That’s also ok. The key is to gravitate towards those people who support and love you through this and those people are out there! It might take a few bad experiences sometimes but I found it’s actually a good way to filter out the assholes :)
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- 6y ago
It depends on the person and your family life, mine was a genetic link to my dad bc he has it so he was sorta supportive? He told me to just get meds with no therapy and I was like “uh no” idk if my dad did erp but I do know that if he got off his meds his ocd would be so much worse.
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- 23w ago
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?
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- 12w ago
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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- 8w ago
Has anyone experienced their reputation affected or misunderstood because of a societally taboo OCD theme? Others catching wind of your obsessions and misinterpreting it, assuming the worst? I’m intentionally keeping it vague because I don’t want my specific situation to get reassured, but it’s been a real tough pill to swallow knowing that people close to me (and anyone else they might talk to) think of me differently. I’m unwilling to share about my OCD because I feel pretty confident it will be taken as an excuse or denial, and feels compulsive and reassurance seeking. Let me know if anyone here has experienced anything like it, how they handled it, exposures you did.
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