I am suffering from religious OCD for the past 32 years. When I am practising disregarding my OCD fires back with strong thoughts of until when u r going to disregard. When I say to myself God is with me it fires back with thoughts of what God has done until now. You will never recover. May I ask you what is this. Azhar from India
I have really bad religious ocd, centered around God, and how I have to keep doing things otherwise I'm sinning and when I try to do the opposite of my my anxiety is feeling it's even worse. Feels like no escape
I'm feeling the same have hope
Awe that sounds very painful. It is hard when it attacks what you value most which is sounds like your faith is very important to you. Have you been completely ERP?
I am from India. At my city no proper ERP treatment is available.
Hi I am from India as well and suffer from very bad religious and moral ocd and yes there is no good erp therapist who provides affordable therapy , they are either not good or they r good but costly, I am seeing a therapist right now but my therapy is inconsistent and I don't feel its excatly therapy, I do take meds which has helped me, alongside atleast seeing a therapist for ocd practicing cbt erp would help even if its not excat erp, also u can try to do some erp and cbt on your own ,just download erp and ocd sheets and pdfs from online free websites and practice it on our own, for religious ocd labeling the beliefs and thoughts as just ocd and anxiety will help but u have to label the thoughts everytime they come and then move on
I remind my self that life is a test. A trial to see if we’re good people and patient. It’s not meant to be sunshine and rainbows, that all comes after. Right now, we’re being tested for our patience. To see if you’re going to give up on God or not. He understands and you WILL recover. After hardship comes ease always. And you’ll see the reward of your endurance and the reward of your pain in the next life.
Maryam0421 Are you also going with the same OCD problem.
Pretty much yeah. Just bad thoughts about my faith
For 13 years, OCD is not just a part of my life; OCD IS my life. I cant work, Im having intrusions all day, anxiety all day, afraid of my own mind, it even caused me chronic fatigue syndrom because I did only sleep a couple of hours for years because of the compulsions I did on repeat every awake hour of every single day, no pause, not even for 5 minutes. Ive had a couple of months where it was better, like I was able to live life a little more and not being tortured 24/7. Sometimes I feel like Im the only one with OCD for so long and the only one on whom OCD has such a big impact... 😔
I wake up with obsessions and compulsions all day long. I can't stop them. I'm frustrated and severely depressed. I have a psychiatrist and Psychologist. I've been going through this for 35 years. Ive done ERP. At times I had a grip on things but not now. I'm at the end of my rope. I can't handle much more.
Hello! Lately I’m dealing with my brain giving me intrusive scenarios or almost giving me worst case scenarios and my mind instantly believes them! For example: My Brain will give me an intrusive scenarios like “what if god is actually punishing me with these thoughts!” Then my brain gives me negative emotions towards god and being a Christian it’s just heart breaking!
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