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I was raised Catholic and had this issue a lot in my teen years when I began having sex. I felt that I was disgusting and that I needed to repent for days and days afterwards
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@marsi I’m in the exact same situation now
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I’ll be honest the only thing that helped was stepping away from religion. Not in a hateful way, but to explore my values and what aligned with me. I love religion and think it is an incredible thing, but often times it can be misconstrued and hurtful to those trying to follow. Which was never the original intention. Give yourself space to find what works for you and your value s
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I’ve started to do something similar. I haven’t stepped away from religion formally but I’ve given up on confession for the time being. I always end up feeling worse about myself afterwards and that is so not the intention of the sacrament. I’m giving myself permission to “sin” whether it’s “venial” or “mortal” (obviously I’m not killing anyone or robbing banks lol). I believe God knows my heart and if doing something, even if the church is against it, helps me overcome my ocd, I think he’d be ok with that.
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Proud of you. That’s a huge step!!
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For me I threw out the whole religion idea. I follow Jesus and God and belive in Jesus but I know that Jesus died on the cross for my sins so I don’t have to be perfect, not that sinning is ok but I know that Jesus forgives me so you need to forgive yourself. I feel really bad about sinning also and I believe you should but there comes to a point where that crosses over to becoming an obsession wich is mine. Jesus forgives so get over it, learn from it and move on.
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I started seeing every little thing as a sin. Or at least things that will bring bad karma. Everything, even little things like listening to music or enjoying a meal. In my eyes, everything everyone is doing is mostly sins and it terrifies me to death. It scares me to the point of paralysis and I can’t even do anything anymore because everything is a sin in my eyes. I’ll definitely spiral if I think about it more, but if I don’t, I feel like I’m lying to myself. I don’t even have confidence that this is OCD anymore. What if I’m right (I’m not necessarily wrong according to my religious doctrines, not that I’m a 100% sure) and nothings going to help me, not even therapy? And if most things humans do are sins anyway, what’s the point of anything? (See how it starts relating to an existential crisis) I’m terrified that no one’s gonna be able to help me anymore. I feel like I’m at wits ends. I don’t practice Christianity btw. Any insights or even “me too”s would help.
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Does anyone have harm OCD related to recent events? Like events that just happened or happened not long ago? I feel like my OCD is trying to find something bad/immoral I could have done in nearly every situation that I am experiencing, for example “Did you just do that?”. And I constantly want to check, ask people for reassurance, try to find a logic answer by going it though in my head,… It’s many different themes but all related to doing sth bad/immoral (e.g., touching someone inappropriately, pushing someone in front of a vehicle, putting something in a drink/food). Does anyone have the same? Or the other thing that I experienced recently is that I did something (a rather unimportant action, not harming anyone) and I go over and over it and ask myself “why did you do that? What does that say about you? Are you actually a weird person?” It feels like I draw “false conclusions” from a real event… I don’t know if that’s OCD though or not. Just wondering if anyone has experienced the same. Good luck to you all! We’re not alone in this! 😊
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Hey I feel like I just have this evil like whirring feeling of anxiety and like “something bad is gonna happen” and feeling you’re going to do things against God or like you already have I guess?
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