Can ROCD thoughts be mistaken for God's guidance?

This is so hard and I’ve dealt with this too! It comes in waves but oh man is it the worst. Once I learned OCD attaches to the things you value the most (ie, faith & relationship), it made a lot of sense why I was having those themes of OCD. I’m not sure what the solution is but I’m hopeful ERP will help.

The thoughts seemed so forceful, I didn’t want to participate or go towards what my mind was saying was for me, I wouldn’t even know the person. I felt like I had to because “I have wanted to hear Gods voice” so anytime I hear anything about relationships I think it’s God.

This is ur ocd obsessing over if your doing what “god” wants you to. Clearly you have a deep wanted connection with god so your intrusive thoughts r praying on this. Not to mention your ROCD has no reason or validness to stop talking to these people. In stopping communication you allow your ocd and ROCD to take control of you. Fight back n just see your thoguhts as nothing more then thoguhts. U r not hearing gods word, this is intrusive based thoguhts from pure ocd.

Would also say it’s a relief to hear that someone else has experienced this too. It’s hard when you want to do what “God” is telling you to do, but “God” is telling you to do something completely out of character. I get it. Hang in there.

Hi @TheGift101 I’ve had similar struggles- this is more common than you might think. If you’re from a Christian background, I’d encourage you to read the following: 1. https://garythomas.com/2015/01/05/goddidnttellyoumarryyourspouse/ 2. “Direct communications from God take the form of impressions, and impressions can come even to the most devoted and prayerful people from such murky sources as wishful thinking, fear, obsessional neurosis, schizophrenia, hormonal imbalance, depression, side effects of medication, and satanic delusion, as well as from God. Impressions need to be suspected before they are sanctioned and tested before they are trusted. Confidence that one’s impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.” - J.I. Packer, God’s Plans for You. There are many Bible verses on testing spirits / impressions (e.g. 1 Jn 4:1). Even if strong feelings persist about an impression (which happens to me from my OCD), it could just be from Satan. Feeling are not facts. 3. “1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 7:39 her husband dies. The widow, like any other person of marriageable age (v. 25), is free to marry. Presumably all that Paul has just said of the betrothed applies to the widow as well (vv. 8–9, 40a), and his admonition that she marry only in the Lord (that is, she should marry only a fellow Christian) would likewise apply to the betrothed. To whom she wishes injects a wonderful note of practical wisdom—that people should marry someone they “wish” (Gk. thelō, “desire” or “want”) to marry.” - ESV Study Bible. If you look at the other verses that ‘presumably’ apply, some translations talk about being under no compulsion, and emphasize the couples’ free choice about who (as long as they’re also Christian) and if they marry. So, I find that the clearest Scripture (i.e. God) says it’s your choice who to marry, and this is what world-class Bible scholars say, then I don’t expect myself to know better than them. God knows that you don’t know ☺️.

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Thank you all for this. So extremely helpful, I was so scared and discouraged