Has anyone else had intrusive thoughts about converting to another religion? It's really weird so for context I grew up in a very Christian family, don't really believe in it anymore and now am happily Buddhist but when my anxiety spikes I'll have these thoughts about Jesus, and becoming a Christian and they foce themselves into my head. I even sat there and really tried to determine if it was a desire or not and I just kept feeling like I wanted to convert to make the thoughts stop, not that it was a true feeling of mine. Has anyone gone through something similar? I've tried looking through the moral and religious ocd stuff and I'm not finding something that's exactly what I'm going through so idk what to think.

Nica

Date posted: 3y

You should read Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh. Fantastic read.

Anonymous

Date posted: 3y

Great suggestion!

Anonymous

Date posted: 3y

I’ve walked a similar path and had that pull back to Christianity. It never really felt right when I started reexamining the faith and I found myself quickly realizing why I lost connection to it in the first place.

ImagineSisyp...

Date posted: 3y

Yeah it's weird this has been happening recently. I have no desire to be Christian again, more power to anyone who wants to but my mind will be like ACCEPT JESUS RIGHT NOW, JESUS, JESUS, JESUS. And will literally repeat it in my head for hours. It's so weird because I've been completely apart from Christianity for 7 almost 8 years now, and suddenly I'm getting these kind of thoughts.

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