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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 2y ago
OCD or God giving me a sign?
Every time I prayed for “clarity” somebody other than my boyfriend would pop up. What does that mean. Even tho I want him 😭😭😭
Every time I prayed for “clarity” somebody other than my boyfriend would pop up. What does that mean. Even tho I want him 😭😭😭
First I am sorry that you are having a difficult time. OCD is a real jerk. The truth is that ocd knows that you value prayer and your relationship with God, so it is going to attack you there. So, when you are having these intrusive thoughts during or after prayer, try and sit with the anxiety and not try to figure it out. Instead of wondering why someone else pops up when you pray for clarity, when the intrusive thought comes in, sit with the anxiety - perhaps you may say to ocd, well I never thought of that, or we’ll, that’s interesting. And then leave it at that. OCD is trying to bait you to figure it out - and there is nothing to figure out. I hope this helps.
@Jeffrey What if it’s someone I had a crush on before. He’s like a really good friend of mine. 😵💫
@_Meh It sounds to me like OCD is trying to force you to get 100% certainty about your relationship. I would encourage you to try not to figure anything out - because the more you try the stronger the ocd need for certainty. Perhaps a response to the ocd could be - well maybe this person is the one - but right now I am with my boyfriend and I am going ti enjoy my time with him and we will see what happens in the future.
He’s ur top priority I don’t think it’s anything involved with god lol
Best way to tell if it's you or good is to go to His word 💛 and spend quiet time with him, make the time to hear from him. I remember once feeling so strong the urge to confess something to my spouse about my past and genuinely asked God to give me a clear sign whether or was time to do it or not and i believed he would make it clear as he's done in the past and he didn't give me the sign i asked for so i took it to mean it wasn't time yet even though i felt so strongly that i should
Let me tell you how I’ve been going through this for past 2 years!!!! I feel you. Talking about it right now is almost like ERP for me. I feel you. It is scary, and it is just thoughts
ERP would have you sit in the uncertainty- maybe these are signs from God and maybe not- I often tell people if it sounds like OCD, walks like OCD, then it's probably OCD- it seems like you already likely know the answer to this question on a logical level. And we know that OCD cannot really be argued with logic. So we have to respond to the thought differently- not try and logic our way out, not try and solve it with "certainty" instead it will mean allowing yourself to feel anxiety and distress and seeing that you can tolerate these tough feelings. Maybe you aren't supposed to be in this relationship, maybe you are, who knows. If one day you truly decide to end the relationship through a break up well then that day, that moment you can sit with those feelings but today- until you make that decision, you keep living your life.
Helpful!!
God* and also, it wasn't infidelity just something that'd happened to me
I’m 25 and never ever thought this before my soocd relapse. I have a bf of 5 years. Never been a high libido kinda girl. Don’t get me wrong I do get turned on by my bf but not like every day you know? - That had always been in the back of my head, is this normal and ok? But my ocd has latched onto the most scariest what if EVER. My brain is now saying How do you know you won’t prefer to sleep and kiss girls if you haven’t tried it: and it’s that unknown that is scaring the shit out of me. I DONT AND NEVER HAVE wanted to sleep / kiss a girl. But now my intrusive thoughts is all I think about!!! I don’t want I don’t want I don’t want??? So why does my brain think BUT WHAT IF??? I know ocd thrives off uncertainty which is why I think this is happening? But I don’t wanna find out or work it out because all I want is to be with my bf and marry him!! Is this just the epitome of OCD?
TW religious ocd OCD is turning innapropriate desires into prayers. Essentially the best way I can describe it is everyone has innapropriate desires sometimes. One example is if I’m suicidal, I wouldn’t mind if a meteor hit while I was asleep. Obviously that affects other people too, but if it’s not my fault, selfishly I want it. Well, it essentially turns that “I want this” thought into me thinking towards god “this would be nice if it happens.” Especially if it wasn’t my fault at all, I wouldn’t mind. My brain can VERY easily turn that into a prayer. All I have to do is direct it for a second towards god, and boom, technically it’s a prayer. Has anyone else had this? It really seems like ocd, even if it is VERY technically a prayer. It doesn’t seem like a normal, thought out prayer
I cannot tell if this is OCD assigning meaning where there is none, or if it is something else entirely. I have ADHD, and I tend to hyperfixate on people, specifically men I find interesting. It feels like a crush. Maybe it is a crush. I do not know. It does not matter. I daydream a lot. I have posted about this before, and the responses were helpful, but right now I am spiraling again. Lately, what I think is a dopamine-driven hyperfixation has latched onto my supervisor at work. I actively stop myself from ruminating too much about what it could mean. I remind myself they are just thoughts. I love my boyfriend and I am committed to him. But I have noticed that I sometimes *hope* something goes wrong with an order, just so I have a reason to talk to my supervisor, even if the interaction is only a few sentences. I do not even smile at him because I am so afraid of being disloyal or disrespectful to my boyfriend. The other day, my voice sounded nice, and I got scared that I did that on *purpose* because I was talking to my supervisor. I know how to make my voice sound smoother, and I worried that I subconsciously did it for him. I know people do that kind of thing to seem pleasant in general, but it feels wrong when it is tied to one specific person. There was another moment where I had to bend slightly, and I knew he was behind me, though I didn’t know he would walk in my direction. It turned into a kind of awkward traffic situation, and I started wondering if I *hoped* for that. I even caught myself thinking about whether he finds me attractive. I know that these thoughts might be in the normal range, but the fact that I think about him so much, daydreaming, hoping for interactions, mentally replaying things, feeling excitement, makes me feel incredibly guilty. Is that disrespectful to my boyfriend? I don’t think I’m flirting. But I feel like even hoping/looking for interactions or tweaking my voice counts as some kind of betrayal. I just don’t know. To me, it sounds like a mix of ADHD and OCD, It really does feel like chaos inside my head. I want to be honest with my boyfriend, but I know talking about this stuff makes his jealousy flare up, and understandably so I’m a jealous person myself. But if I don’t confess, it feels like I am hiding something and it feels *extra* disloyal. I know that daydreaming and a bit of excitement are normal, especially with ADHD and dopamine-seeking, but when I go out of my way for a few-sentence interaction, or crave eye contact, is that disloyal? I am not asking for reassurance. I genuinely want to understand if this is normal or if it crosses a line. I am scared that I am just making excuses for bad behavior. I am scared that this is not okay and I am doing it anyway. I wish I could ask my therapist about this, but I had to stop going recently. She always understood how my brain works, especially the difference between reassurance-seeking and genuinely wanting clarity. She was really good at helping me figure out whether something was common or explainable. It helped so much to just know if something was normal, even if knowing did not stop the rumination. That’s kind of what I am looking for now, just someone to tell me if this pattern makes sense or if it crosses a line. Please help :(
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