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- noPr0b
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- 5y ago
WHAT I DEAL WITH ON A DAILY BASIS!! I have severe ROCD. My partner and I just broke up again for like the 4th time this year, because my anxiety is so bad and I am always so worried that I cheated or did something wrong and shouldn’t flirt with someone else. I hate it. And then I have to confess and it just hurts her feelings
Yes I do this as well. Especially with religion
Extremely distressful :( I feel for you
I complete understand though. I’m starting to accept looking at someone attractive but still feel terrible for talking to them.
Yeah I feel stuff from the past all the time. It will usually be when I don’t have something new to worry about. An old memory will come up and turn into a problem even though I didn’t worry about it at the time. The most positive way I can think about this is that people with OCD have very great and enhanced memories. And I try to think of it is a gift, even when it feels like pure torture and I just want to forget
Yeah this one had me pretty bad. My confession ocd has to do with the fact I been with girls who have had hpv. So now I think any girl I have sex with will get hpv and get cancer and die. I been to my primary and a specialist and they tell me the same thing there’s no way to test me for it and it’s so ubiquitous that almost everyone has had it by now so I am not mandated to tell casual sexual partners. Im okay with telling serious partners but I don’t want to tell any casual partner I might have something that prob is all cleared up by now. The urge to confesss to all my past partners was so strong before but I’m okay now. I use to confess about all sorts of things but now I’m way better. My therapist says it’s a compulsion and confessing just relieves anxiety for a little then ur mind will focus on something else. Need to lead to live with uncertainty and imperfection.
Hahaa seriously the more I read these posts about what people’s OCD obsessions and or compulsions are I realize I have soooo many I didn’t even realize I had.
Lol I'm pretty sure ive just given up on relationships due to OCD. It literally feels like a huge weight is on my shoulders whenever I was in one. Mentally exhausting.
Aah man, I had the same, but you wouldn't believe the stuff I thought. I actually would drive from my parents house and a thought would come up that I hurt my mom or dad while I was there, and I know it's not true, they are fine, but my brain wouldn't let it go.
this is me 24/7, i always have to tell my thoughts even if they are intrusive
I do it with past choices that I feel shame for- I feel like whatever he doesn’t know about my past means I’m lying. Even small stuff like not calling someone back or ditching plans (years ago) it’s so ass
That’s a better way of looking at it, it’s really about just dismissing the obsession when it surfaces at this point. Which can be so hard
How do you all deal with ocd confession compulsion? And the guilt? I need some tips. It’s one of the hardest themes I’ve had.
Anyone know anything about confession OCD that can tell me about it in a nutshell? I’ve always felt the need to tell everyone whatever is going on in my head and I feel guilty if I don’t. I would always tell on myself as a kid but not for the things I did wrong but instead for all the bad things in my head. Now I obsess over everything from my past and experience with other partners and have horrible guilt if I don’t tell my boyfriend absolutely everything that has ever happened or just things my mind gets stuck on. Only when he knows everything I can think of do I relax. Is this what confession OCD is? If not- does anyone else get the compulsion to get the truth out?
It feels like my mind scans for things for me to “confess” to my partner. Things that aren’t even important or necessary come into my mind and I feel so guilty about it and get super stressed and feel like the only way to get rid of that is to confess. I feel like it’s something I have to do. No matter how much I tell myself it’s something that doesn’t need to be said I still have to say it somehow. I don’t know if this is normal, but I just feel like my partner has to know everything. And this is causing arguments and making him upset. I don’t want to hurt my partner anymore as I can tell my OCD is really affecting him. If anyone has any advice that would be great!
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