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- CPeach
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Demons?
Interested to know whether anyone here feels there ocd is the result of engagement or exposure - intentional or not - to some occultic practice?
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- TheocdguitaristTheocdguitarist
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 1y ago
this is a theme I've dealt with for years, and I'd encourage you to be cautious here. regardless of beliefs (I'm personally christian), the human mind is a very powerful thing. it's important to treat thoughts like that like all other OCD thoughts - by allowing yourself to have them and not feed them. I thought I had been possessed when I was a kid, but now, regardless of if that happened for real or not, I see how big of a hand my OCD had in it. I'm in a much better place now, but I still have difficult days where my mind obsesses over demons/possession. Remember, you are stronger than you know, and although it's counterintuitive, the way to beat OCD is by saying "maybe, maybe not" to your thoughts.
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- CPeachCPeach
- Date posted
- 1y ago
@Theocdguitarist Thanks, I’m struggling with this because I had a spiritual experience that I found haunting. It is hard to know what is mental and what is objective. I think the spiritual experience was objective. But I guess I can’t do anything about it. Maybe I just say “it’s in God’s hands.” Would that work as a response to ocd?
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- AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 1y ago
@CPeach I don’t know about your particular case, especially since it has spiritual/religious themes, but for me saying “it’s in God’s hands” is helpful. I basically try to give God all my fears and trust that he will take them, even if it is real, even if it is my fault and I’ve done something wrong. For me as a Christian I try to put it all on the cross and trust that God takes my sin, my anxiety, my fears, my wrongdoing, my confusion, everything. This helps me because it’s another way of accepting uncertainty, but it’s a way of accepting uncertainty while having faith. Maybe my OCD thoughts are real, maybe it’s just anxiety, maybe my fears will come true, maybe it’s just chemical…whatever it is, I give it to God and trust that he is bigger than all that, and he loves me, and he is willing to take it all on himself. Also my favorite psalm for ocd/anxiety is psalm 139. Hope this helps! Wishing you the best.
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- CPeachCPeach
- Date posted
- 1y ago
@Anonymous Thank you. I am a Christian and only recently has OCD turned to become “ugly” fears. This is new to me and I feel so defiled. I feel like the devil is in my head. Learning to live with it when I have had very few impure thoughts in my life is tough. I don’t know who I am in the midst of this.
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- AnonymousAnonymous
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- 1y ago
@CPeach It’s so, so hard. My experience of OCD is that it twists up the things that are important to me and makes everything feel unsteady, like I’m so lost in my mind that I’ll never be able to get out. It is so scary to not be sure of who you are in the midst of OCD. It’s easier said than done, but I hope you can give yourself some grace as you work through this new theme. God is bigger than OCD, and is bigger than any demon too.
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- AnonymousAnonymous
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- 1y ago
I mean no disrespect, but I have to caution you on trying to reason on the basis of feelings. This is a cognitive distortion called emotional reasoning. Feelings aren't facts. As far as I can tell, we have no evidence that OCD is caused by occult practices. I believe those practices are unwise, but on separate grounds. You seem to know that God loves you, but are distraught because your feelings don't accord with that. I expect that if you do ERP, eventually you will feel better and your feelings will be more in accord with your knowledge.
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- CPeachCPeach
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- 1y ago
@Anonymous Thank you. My husband would say the same.
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- CPeachCPeach
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- 1y ago
@Anonymous What ERP would you suggest for this? Writing my fears down?
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- AnonymousAnonymous
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- 1y ago
@CPeach Depending on how much anxiety it causes you, you could either just say "there's a chance my OCD is caused by demons, but I don't need to figure that out right now" or write down a worst-case scenario of your obsession being true, and then reading it over and over until you get bored.
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- CPeachCPeach
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- 1y ago
I know I am forgiven but I feel very much I am being disciplined. I am struggling with this so much. I feel God’s spirit has left me and so pray for it to return, but then is this a compulsion? Ah, how to manage scripturally v psychologically is challenging as the advice is different.
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- CPeachCPeach
- Date posted
- 1y ago
I know God is loving and forgiving, but I feel he is so far away from me right now I am struggling not to despair.
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- CPeachCPeach
- Date posted
- 1y ago
I keep praying “Lord please help me or take me home to be with you.”
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- j.dj.d
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- OCD Conqueror
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- 1y ago
I have struggled with the fear that I am being disciplined and choosing to ignore God by getting help. But what I have remembered is that the gospel is all about us giving up control and allowing God to work. So I have to rest in that. I trust his will, will be done. So maybe it is punishment maybe not. I don’t have to sit and figure it out. God is not a God of confusion but of peace. Ocd sounds like confusion to me.
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- CPeachCPeach
- Date posted
- 1y ago
And anyone done rite of deliverance?
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- CPeachCPeach
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- 1y ago
And whether or not this is an obsession or true is another thing I can’t know the answer to.
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- CPeachCPeach
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- 1y ago
Thanks so much for your support. My ocd used to help with high standards. Now it is dear of harming family and fear of losing faith. I appreciate your encouragement. Is there a way we can stay in contact? Maybe via a private message from time to time? I am new to this app..
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- AnonymousAnonymous
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- 1y ago
@CPeach I’m not totally sure how it works but you are welcome to private message me! Also new to this app.
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- CPeachCPeach
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- 1y ago
@Anonymous Thanks! Not sure how.. will try to figure out
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- CPeachCPeach
- Date posted
- 1y ago
*fear
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- ReadyForImprovementReadyForImpr...
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- 1y ago
It is common to want to figure out where our OCD started or why we have it. But it's not helpful. Redirecting focus on moving towards recovery is a better use of your time and energy. If you're on a boat that sinking, it's better to move ashore to safety instead of standing on the boat trying to figure out what caused it to start sinking and drowning with it.
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- Dil P
- Date posted
- 6y ago
still the obsession with the idea of devils, demons and being possessed is in my mind although now it varies in intensity. i’m so alert to every sensation in my body - pins and needles, moving in my scalp, tingling hairs/muscles. These flare up most at night time. These sensations still make me feel uneasy - even if im told its anxiety, i still regard being possessed (or turning psychotic) as a possibility cos of those sensations. I immediately link these sensations to horror movies or stuff i’ve been told about spirits. i wish i didnt have this disturbing thought ? it feels like an obsession that no one else with OCD has, but if im wrong i hope someone can reach out and relate ??
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- Kilo2001
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Ghosts
Has anyone here ever had obsessive thoughts about ghosts? Like what if there’s a ghost in the house? What if it’s a demon? And I get so scared. That stuff freaks me out so much. I had a nightmare last night about a Demon/ghost and it scared me so much. I usually have intrusive thoughts about harm and they center my daughter. And I woke up looked at my daughter and what if she’s a demon popped into my head. I get a sinking feeling in my stomach even typing it. I know she’s not but now I’m like am I going crazy? Like am Turning psychotic? I’ve never heard of anyone obsessing over this but me. And it’s taking a lot to post this cause I have a fear I’m the only one and I am going crazy but I know at the same time OCD can latch onto anything. I was doing so good with the harm intrusive thought. I can totally ignore them now. And I’m confident I’d never hurt my baby. So now I’m like is my OCD jumping to something else? But why this? It sounds so crazy!
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- mrselfdestru...
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- 1y ago
Can health ocd mimick symptoms?
Hello, I have hypochondria, gad, ptsd, and panic disorder. For the past 5 months I have been in a deep episode of what I’m hoping is just hypochondria where I’ve fully convinced myself I’m psychotic/developing schizophrenia. This theme has become so debilitating I lost my job and was completely bed bound for a while. Anyway, I have the extreme fear of developing delusions and hallucinations, so I’m constantly on the look out for symptoms like that. For whatever reason I have become extremely sensitive and afraid of anything demonic or horror related, I literally used to be a horror junkie, listen to Marilyn Manson etc. I am literally an atheist, I don’t even believe in the devil or superstitious things like this, but for some reason I have started getting extremely fear inducing demonic type intrusive thoughts, like one night I had the terrifying thought “what if my wife is possessed by a demon and isn’t really my wife” this thought scared the fuck out of me and actually changed my behavior towards my wife and gave me a panic attack, the fear of that later passed, but the uneasy feeling still linger. I’ve been getting all sorts of terrible demonic type intrusive thoughts like that about everybody and random places and even objects and they cause a panic attack everytime I get them, it used to be a panic attack about struggling to fight the urge to believe these thoughts but now I feel like it’s gotten to the point where it just straight up feels like it’s happening and I’m afraid for real and not even questioning the thoughts anymore. I’ve completely stopped listening to any music that references the devil or any type of media that may have dark references, to avoid getting these types of thoughts. When I am not anxious and I take my anxiety medicine (clonazepam) I can laugh these thoughts off and confidently shrug them off as ridiculous, but other times it feels real!Why is this happening to me? Keep in mind I am a literal atheist and do not believe in superstitious things like this, why am I suddenly afraid of things like this? And better yet why do they scare me and “feel real” if I don’t believe them. I feel like I’m fighting for my sanity every single day. I literally dread the anticipation of getting these thoughts. These strange new fears about demonic shit is only solidifying my root fear that I am developing psychosis. Can anyone please help me?
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