What happens if you don't confess any sins in confession?

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If he keeps sending you off that is not a sin or another, constantly while you are at a sorotual unrest I would either change confessor or go to confession more rarely. Or ask him for guidance why do you feel the urge to confess sins that are not considered such by the church.
 
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To be honest, I find this statement troubling. I can’t imagine many people committing a mortal sin daily, and certainly not in Mother Theresa’s case. And if not for a mortal sin, wanting to confess every day sounds unhealthy (and not trusting in the mercy of God offered to us at the start of every Mass).
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For one who really is a saint, no…it is not unhealthy. But the confession of such a person is quite unlike any other confession a confessor hears.
 
Confession is not just for mortal sins–not sure where you got this idea. Everytime we receive the sacrament we receive grace. I go once a week, as has been the custom for many Catholics throughout the centuries. While I rarely have mortal sins to confess (not bragging here, mind you!) I DO have plenty of daily failings, omissions, and venial sins to confess. I have found that a very good way to advance in the spiritual life is frequent Confession. Note that it is also true, as many saint’s writings have testified, that the closer one gets to God the more one “sees” one’s sins.
 
It’s a really common problem for people coming out of IFB and other fringe protestant groups. All that training on what’s a sin doesn’t just go away.
 
Independent Fundamentalist Baptist. It’s the folk who think that the Southern Baptists are liberal compromisers.
 
I expect if I were more attentive I would have more to confess - but the attention to little sins, especially as applied to one’s own state in life, is itself a thing to be learned.
 
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