Hello, I have suffered from OCD nearly all my life. Hiding the compulsions that one does, may not just be a case of being ashamed. It is also possible to feel that one will be stopped doing the complusion by someone else. The compulsions are triggered by a hughe sense of fear and trying to stop something really bad from happening. Doing a compulsion in secret allows one to compensate for the feared consequence, with out others getting involved, who could potentially stop one form carrying out the compulsion.
