I haven't gotten caught and I feel just fine -- this only applies to little things and nothing recently, but I can't see how confessing ANY crime would make someone feel better!
'I have committed a crime in the past, I know it wouldn't help me to feel better if I turned myself in.'
What's done is done. I feel no guilt.
Ooh, which reminds me. Does anybody know how treatable personality disorders are? I think I may have one, but I don't care to go to the doctors (I find it a far scarier experience than the dentist) unless something can be done about it.
I haven't committed any crimes in the past, but it would probably make me feel better if I confessed. If it was something that I remembered and that weighed on me, I'm sure it would make me feel better.
I have committed many crimes in the past and gotten away with all of them. I have no intention of confessing. I doubt I would be arrested for any of them any way. I feel no guilt. I'm totally fine with it.
I'm sure it would make you feel better in a The Tell-Tale Heart kinda way. But I'm sure you confessing would not make the family who's family member you wronged by sending them to jail feel any better.