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You have to be careful who you confess to. I have harm OCD and suicide OCD. Confession is a compulsion. There is a major difference between an intrusive thought and true intention. I was terrified to tell my counselor about my intrusive thoughts. I thought for sure I would end up in jail or involuntarily committed to a psych ward. Neither happened. I have a couple friends who I know can handle it, so I have gone into more detail about my intrusive thoughts. But other people I knew couldn't handle it, so I gave them only bare bones and didn't go into much detail. But the more you confess, the more you feed your OCD. OCD is NEVER satisfied. You are just keeping yourself stuck. Do you have a therapist that understands OCD and specializes in ERP?
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Yes I do! She is awesome. She has given me some suggestions
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I used to. Back in September, I confessed my cannibalism intrusive thoughts to my best friend for reassurance. As long as you confess to the right person, you'll be fine. But I don't suggest confessing for reassurance, that's a compulsion.
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I never confessed my thoughts to the wrong person, though. Accept the uncertainty that you might or might not get in trouble of confessing.
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I have confessed one of my thoughts to one of my best friends, and she was very understanding about it. However, you are right, it’s not a good idea at all to confess to the wrong person, especially if it’s for reassurance. I do know that living with this disorder means learning to accept the uncertain. Thank you 💜
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Yes I use to do it all the time for that reason. But I was told thoughts are just thoughts and that it’s okay and to try not to worry about them!
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Thank you. I’m so scared I’m gonna act on my thought about telling one of the parents I babysit for about the intrusive thoughts I used to have. But that would get me into SO much trouble. For some reason, the guilt from having these thoughts is still here, even though I took time off from babysitting to get help, and I never acted on them
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Did you confess your thoughts to someone that you shouldn’t have, and got in trouble for it? That’s my fear
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I told to five of my friends because I felt like I really needed to get it out of my chest and they all excepted me and understood me It doesn't mean I can tell about my intrusive thoughts to anyone... some people won't understand and it's okay
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When the thoughts started (a couple of months ago) I was so scared to tell anyone, I was scared that I'll go to jail for the things I told them But nah
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I started ERP for false memory OCD and I have been struggling with the intrusive thoughts of what if I believe the thoughts and confess and that’s terrifying but working with my therapist taking it one step at a time and realizing it won’t be easy and intrusive thoughts/OCD will always try to scare you and make you doubt.
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- 22w
I made a post earlier today about my past and things that happened and maybe I didn’t phrase it really in the best way haha :’)) so I’ll try and make it shorter. February has been complicated for me and recently. First my mental health was bad because of studies but I had this thought regarding my past that was a little tempting and led me to spiral on about my past, I gave into it and that really took me for a whole spin. I’ve started to open up about things that I never thought I would talk about and even slowly opening up to my therapist. These things happened in childhood and I mimicked actions I saw at a young age ( despite these things happening, it was only just one side of my childhood ) and even though it’s still not easy for me to deal with it, I often have the urge to confess and fear that it’s my intuition telling me to confess and if I don’t, something bad is going to happen or I’m a bad person. I’ve talked about my story to someone in a detailed way and to my therapist briefly and she understood and treated me with kindness but these thoughts still linger. Sometimes it gets to a point where I have the thought briefly telling me negative things but it doesn’t focus on the good things that happened and how I’ve learned and not repeated the action. It just focuses on the bad and when I just pause , it goes silent and keeps quiet, I realise that it’s all just thoughts.
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I’ve been feeling the compulsion of confession again. I hate confessing things to my boyfriend I don’t want him to carry the burden. I’d rather hurt than him hurt. But I feel I did something wrong and he needs to know. Like I need to be punished or something. I may be over reacting to it but I just feel guilty and I had a panic attack when I woke up yesterday. I would never cheat on him. Just making guys laugh I feel like I am doing him wrong or flirting. And then when I notice it I just feel awful. I just want to be liked and noticed not romantically but just as a human. I don’t know why I act like this and feel the need to tell him as if I slept with someone. I think it’s attacking my biggest fear which is losing him. Does anyone have experience with this?
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Have u told ur partners about ur intrusive thoughts? I know you dont have to..but I am curious..And if you dont do you feel guilty ? And like you hide from them? If u do, how do you deal with that?
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