Hi Codes,
I think you've done nothing wrong. In fact, I think you've done some great things. You have encountered some of the problems and stresses that many of us face, in dealing with our mental health disorder / disability, aka "OCD".
One issue that we have to deal with is what to tell other people -- and how much to tell them.
With the internet and social networking sites (especially Facebook) it's incredibly hard to keep things private. So we have to make considered decisions about how much to reveal about ourselves online, and how open to be.
I don't think there are any "right" or "wrong" answers, and there is no reason for you to feel humiliated. I think you would be justified to feel very proud of yourself.
I can see (above) that Nimrod (an OCD Action moderator) has contacted you to say that OCD Action would like to get involved with you in some way. I think that's a fantastic idea; why not see what sort of things you could do, in connection with the charity?
In terms of your website, you could use it in lots of different ways. For example, you mention setting up an OCD support group. So that could be the focus of your website, if you wanted it to be. The website could be all about the OCD support group, rather than about offering advice to sufferers. (Just an idea.)
I have attended a couple of different OCD support groups, which I enjoyed. If you look on this website, you'll see lots of information about the existing support groups -- and there's a forum for support groups.
So, if you wanted, you could contact some of the other support group leaders, and ask them for help or advise about setting about a support group.
In terms of avoiding further problems with your family, you might like to think about separating your personal Facebook page from your OCD stuff. For example, have no links or reference on your personal Facebook profile to the OCD website or support group. And set up a separate, unconnected Facebook page for the website and / or support group.
You could keep your personal online stuff separate from your OCD-related stuff, if you wanted to keep your family from watching what you're doing all the time.
The fact that we have usernames on forums like this one helps to give us some degree of privacy. We may have disclosed some of our problems to some of the people around us, but we may be very discreet about some facts, or with some people.
For example, I have recently disclosed my OCD to most of the people around me. (After having some degree of OCD for 25 or 30 years.) But I have not gone into any of the specifics of my obsessions and compulsions with anyone around me -- except for a couple of trusted people. With my work colleagues in particular, I have not (and would not) discuss the specifics of my OCD. I made the difficult decision to tell them all that I have OCD (recently), but I wouldn't dream of giving them any specifics. Because they are not trained or experienced to understand OCD (it's a very complex problem, that even some GPs have little understanding of). And once I reveal too much to a colleague or family member, I have no control over what they might say about me on Facebook, or Twitter, or at work, etc.
So I made a decision to tell pretty much everyone around me that I have OCD -- but to talk about the specifics only with people who have experience or training that relates to OCD or anxiety disorders.
But I don't think there are any right or wrong ways to deal with disclosure. I would fully support anyone who wishes to reveal everything to everyone; and I would also fully support anyone who wishes to keep their OCD absolutely secret.
So I think you're doing a great job of handling yourself, and I think you can be proud of your achievements. 
All the best.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
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