I have a tricky one.. real event ocd. I am in quarantine (day 11) due to my boss testing positive for covid. We didn’t spend much time together but just enough to warrant isolation. I had a cough beforehand and that got worse and so this caused intense panic and lots of other symptoms like fatigue, headache, muscle pain, etc. Not even sure if those symptoms are due to a cold, covid or just me freaking out for days. I got tested twice (day 1 and day 4) and both results came back negative so I felt better but also a bit confused because I did feel mild symptoms. On day 7 I got another negative result. At this point I felt pretty much normal and with 3 negative results and with all the stress I was going through I was like f this and had a friend sit with me outside on my patio (breaking quarantine). They stayed for about an hour and a half. I had a mask on for most of the time just in case and we mainly stayed 6 feet apart. Obviously looking back I regret doing this as it was irresponsible.. At the time I felt okay about it because I knew the odds of me having covid in the first place, let alone spreading it outside at a distance was very low but.. When it came time to answer calls from the health authorities and make it out like Ive been complying with their rules etc , thats when my OCD really got triggered, mainly due to lying and what the implications of that would mean. It felt like I was lying to the police about a murder or something. For example if I spread covid to this person who came over I could get in a lot of trouble. Or if somehow they found out I could pay a big fine etc. Especially since I gave them false information. All these scenarios started to hit me once I lied to them. I ended up getting a 4th test 36 hours after I was with this person (day 10) and again I tested negative. So at this point Im trying to sort of be like, theres a very very low chance I even have it, or spread it even if I somehow did, and also my symptoms are gone so would I even be contagious? Of course none of this is helping my OCD. My compulsion is to confess to the health authorities of what I did before anything bad happens, but part of me is like, do you enjoy paying fines? Because its so so unlikely anything bad will happen but if i say something ill just be getting myself and maybe even my friend im trouble. What do you guys think? If you genuinely think its worth confessing for non-anxiety reasons Ill consider it but the level of anxiety and guilt im having over this makes me think im 90% just being OCD. I have an opportunity to “right the wrong” by confessing, but its not like thats without plenty of consequences that surely might not be easier than just not worrying about this. I really feel like confessing would be me giving in to the anxiety. I just dont know what to do because im spending so much time ruminating about this. Like i cant think of anything else please help.