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- 3y
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- OCD Conqueror
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- 3y
Although I am not a professional, confession is thought of as a compulsion from my understanding.
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- 3y
Yes this is my main compulsion- referred to as confessing. You need to start sitting through it or it’s going to get worse.
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- 3y
But I feel like it will always be on my mind until I say something! It’s torturous
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@Kdrizzy Yes because it’s an obsession! If you keep feeding into it it’s going to make it worse.
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Yes I think it is a compulsion. I am feeling the something similar right now.
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- 3y
Confessing is such a hard compulsion to kick omg. You know you're going to feel the instant relief after doing it. Try writing down the things you'd normally "confess" to your mom in a journal, tear the page out and rip it up when you're done. Might be empowering for ya :)
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- 19w
i’ve been dealing with this “thing” since i was 15. (i’m 23 now) if i have a bad memory that i have done when i was really young or just an intrusive thought i feel like i need to tell my mom or boyfriend. it’s been on and off ever since but since January hit it’s been an everyday thing about the littlest things. mostly about my relationship. an example is i was talking to someone random at my job and we were talking about taxes and when im in deep thought or just thinking i do a thing where i bite my lip (not in the sexual way) and i had a thought when it happened “was that sexual?” and i felt like i did something wrong and i went for a while thinking that until i told my boyfriend about it. or like my ex’s face has popped up in my head in the most inappropriate times and i feel the need that i have to tell him. (my ex was not a good person) i feel like im a prisoner in my head everyday, trying to justify thoughts or remind myself that its just a thought. i didnt know that this was or could be a form of ocd. it runs in my family but i’ve just never considered it being this. i always called it anxiety or depression but i always felt like it is more than that.
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- OCD Conqueror
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- 11w
Why why WHY do I feel the need to constantly overshare?! It’s making me feel guilty af! If my boyfriend tells me something in confidence but my ocd twists what’s said into some crazy big problem I feel the need to run to my mom for reassurance, it’s getting to the point where he doesn’t trust me not to talk about stuff and I don’t want him to feel like that obviously!! But it’s like I can’t stop! Does anyone else have that? How do you stop it?
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- 6w
I know I shouldn’t and I’m trying not to ask for reassurance but how do I deal with this when I made real event mistakes in childhood? I’ve opened up to my cousin about this who’s an adult and believes that kids can be influenced at a young age and mimic things that they see and friends and my therapist. They all see the good in me and my stupid childhood mistakes but the guilt is very strong and even though I’ve opened up It’s telling me to open up more and more and I don’t know what else it wants from me.
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