1 time I found the Christian bible’s thing about benJoseph’s recommendation about confession..

It was fundamentally different from Catholic confession ( yes, this is related to your point ).

Confession was recommended, but it didn’t say confession to someone.

It may have implied confession to one’s team/community.

It absolutely did not orient any such thing to any church-official.

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I’ve found that confessing to LivingSpirit helps.

Research has discovered that it doesn’t matter what one surrenders-to/relies-on, it can be a soccer-ball, an imaginary-friend, or LivingSpirit as I do, but doing that with someone ( from your perspective ) massively empowers lives in breaking addiction, as 1 objective change-in-life.

( see Baumeister’s “Willpower”, & note that while he gives what the evidence says, he rejects it, himself )

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Confessing socially I consider narcissistic.

However, there’s another angle to it: it may help others to see that they’re not-alone in their failings.

& that is valuable.

There’s my answer answer for you.

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