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I grew up Catholic and strayed away from the religion for many reasons. ERP is not a sin. It is help for you to get back on with your life being able to manage your OCD. You think God would want you unhappy?? No he wouldn’t. Although I’m not Catholic anymore, I love God and have my own relationship with him and he has never steered me wrong. Don’t let a religion dictate your recovery. God wants you to recover. He wouldn’t put harm in your way. The devil does that. And to clarify, I am not trying to disrespect your choice of religion. I’m just telling you my point of view. God works in mysterious ways and he also did not write the bible, others did. So stay strong and trust in God to guide you. He’s not going to punish you for doing ERP. God doesn’t punish. The devil does.
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God is the only one who can judge anyone. Not priests, not anyone but God. Trust in him.
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So. Not to give reassurance Bc you shouldn’t do that. But the Bible also states that God loves everyone and that anyone can be forgiven. Do you think that people who die before their last rites go to hell Bc of the sins they couldn’t forgive before they pass? No, and if you do you might want to reevaluate some of the messages you’ve internalized. But if the aforementioned people are forgiven then you too would be forgiven for not confessing things that you didn’t rhink were sins.
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I get what you mean when I dont know if something is a sin I should just do it. But the problem I have is that I see myself bound by some promises and I cant really say which of them I made because of OCD and which not ( because there was a time when making promises was my tactic to have security) so I am afraid I sin.
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- 19w
I've been doing more research on the ins and outs of Catholicism, and man are the guidelines very strict. They're not bad in any sense, and following them makes for a good person, but with ocd these guidelines seem near impossible to properly follow. For example, it's a mortal sin to have an impure thought, and commiting a mortal sin puts you in a state of sin. This means you cannot receive the eucharist (body of Christ) at mass, which is a way to connect closer to God. You have to confess in order to be free from mortal sin. This is fine and all, but this means in my case I'd have to confess almost every week, which can be so tiring. I'm not trying to bash on my own religion, but these guidelines make it so incredibly difficult for me to feel good about myself. Knowing I'm committing one of the worst forms of sin everyday. Intrusive thoughts are a constant thing, does that make me a child of sin? I even skipped mass today because I feel guilty about being in mortal sin, but skipping mass is also a mortal sin! I feel absolutely terrible about myself right now, and feel as if my connection with God has been cut and it's entirely my fault...
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- 17w
So I am a practicing Catholic, and I've gotten into reading the Bible this year, praying the Rosary, things like that, and while I love to do that, my OCD has been seeming to take over, in ways such as like I have to read the Bible for a certain amount of time before I'm satisfied with the time read, or something along those lines, and it's starting to make the thought of praying and reading the Bible unenjoyable, which is really hurting me inside, because I used to and want to enjoy it so bad, but now this is making it really hard to, because it feels like I don't have control over my own thoughts, and little things trigger the thoughts, it's just so annoying. If there's anything anyone thinks I can do to combat this please let me know.
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- 11w
How can I overcome my fear of hell and the one sin that can’t be forgiven with erp erp is obviously to expose those fears and sit in uncertainty but I can’t be uncertain about eternal life even tho I feel uncertain all the time
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