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 😭😭😭
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.
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God* and also, it wasn't infidelity just something that'd happened to me
I keep feeling like I’m letting god down Bc I’m dating an agnostic person but he’ll pray with me and he says maybe one day he’ll become a Christian and he’s offered to go to church with me. I keep feeling like “god wants me to leave” but idk if it’s my ocd. Any tips ?
Christians with OCD- I feel like I’ve been getting signs saying I should abandon all secular media and potentially leave behind much of my family and friends to live a more “holy” life and leave behind “worldly culture” , I struggle to identify this as OCD as I’m scared it’s just me trying to avoid the “hard truths” that I just don’t want to face. What if God is sending me all these signs (admittedly through tiktok mostly) and I just brush them off as OCD because they make me feel bad? Anyone else experience this?
So today while I was talking to myself, sometimes I do this, my mind said something like to ask for a sign from God and I didn’t mean to ask it or even wanting to ask it. I was talking to myself about something that happened a few months back for when I asked God, my grandmother who’s my guardian angel, and St Therese to help me get over the hunch of scrupulosity and OCD (I’m Catholic). They then gave me a sign in Church to let them know that they heard me and I felt peace, love and excitement then. I have been dealing with something lately that I asked them then to send me a sign if something didn’t happen or occurred, even though I couldn’t picture myself saying that. If anything I would have said the exact opposite to prove what happened or occurred, not to show me a sign if something beautiful didn’t happen. Yet the feeling felt so strong as if I did say that and it kept replaying in my mind over and over again. Going back to in the moment, It just went to my mind and blurted to my mouth about asking a sign from God even though I didn’t mean for it or intended it. I then got a thought thinking that I saw something later this morning thinking that God sent me a sign about something. Well, later this morning while looking at my daily Bible app, I saw something and my mind and feelings said that God sent me that sign. Now I’m flooded with anxiety because I was getting these thoughts before and now they like manifested into reality. It’s like as if God planted those thoughts in my head to tell me what’s coming and what will happen. I’m so angry, anxious and sad. I’m scared now that what I didn’t say is actually something that I said. It’s like God is constantly trying to tell me something and he’s keeping on telling me as if he’s playing a game with me and he won’t do it until I give up and give in. I don’t know what to do. I felt very depressed last night because last night because I couldn’t take this anymore as if God is telling me these things or he revealed me to something. Is this God or OCD that’s doing all this to me? I know it’s a lot but I just need feedback from you guys
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