Hello! Lately I’m dealing with my brain giving me intrusive scenarios or almost giving me worst case scenarios and my mind instantly believes them! For example: My Brain will give me an intrusive scenarios like “what if god is actually punishing me with these thoughts!” Then my brain gives me negative emotions towards god and being a Christian it’s just heart breaking!
@Anonymous, search Mark DeJesus on YouTube. He speaks on exactly these struggles, OCD conquerer himself
@Mike in PA Marks podcasts are awesome! It knit picked what I had trouble putting into words and he described it to a T
First of all, God is not punishing you for having OCD or for OCD thoughts. If you're a Christian, consult any of the Gospels about mercy. If Jesus taught that someone didn't have leprosy because they sinned, why would it be different with someone who has OCD? The bigger issue is that you're having these intrusive thoughts. OCD onset is very common in young adulthood, so you're not alone. This is caused by malware in our brains, not from sin. It's also very treatable with the right therapy. Do you have a trained OCD therapist, one who uses ERP? There are many excellent ones affiliated with NOCD. You can contact NOCD for a free consultation. They have a number of good therapists who are Christian and can help you with this. The therapist I worked with, Judy Lair, is a Christian counselor. Hope this helps.
I am a Christian who is working through ocd too. I understand your feelings and how hard it is.
I understand completely how this feels! There are thoughts that pop up into my head randomly, even when I’m burnt out or tired, and I would think “wait is God really telling me something” or “am I committing a sin?”. It’s very very very stressful to have OCD, especially when it attacks your faith and belief in God. I for example, think that God will punish me if I follow my goals and desires. I have my own views on how our Lord isn’t with all of his children as well, and OCD attacks that as well. It can be very heartbreaking on how much my mind consumes on it. My family just says just do what you’re supposed to do so you can distract yourself. Thing is, I can’t and it’s really hard. I’m trying every day to get better but there are times where I’m crying and I’m really scared and times like now where I’m just numb
@anthonycaronna I feel this!! I have never been able to accurately articulate how I feel, but yes this! It feels so difficult bc our faith is so precious and God is Almighty and I don’t want to mess anything up but it feels like I can’t do things right
@blancamerari It’s honestly very hard with God in my opinion, matter of fact probably impossible. He loves us too much for him to just be like that. That’s why I don’t like some Born Again preachers on what they preach. That you will be shut out of heaven if you don’t claim and know Jesus. Thing is we already know who he is. Some just don’t realize it. He is within us and gave us the ability to create and manifest our love towards others
@anthonycaronna Just know! God does love you! And it’s just life! Keep pushing best wishes!
@blancamerari He knows our struggles to the minute detail! He cares for us very much! Keep pushing! God bless! 
I am living in constant ocd crisis from a situation that actually caused me to get fired from my job. I loved that job, had excellent reviews and was making $110k/yr. Got triggered because I snapped at someone who I thought was a friend but had been lying and gossipping about me for months. Now I believe I'm living in the consequences of my sin. I'm not repentant, or didn't confess the right "thing". And we'll meaning fellow Christian friends support these thoughts and attempt to give me that one verse that I've been missing that'll fix all my problems. Even my wife tells me to "stop letting Satan win". I have no one.
Has anyone had intrusive thoughts triggered from emotions such as frustration? When I start to get irritated or frustrated I get blasphemous intrusive thoughts. It makes me more distressed and panicked when the intrusive thoughts occur with that emotion vs just random.
I feel that this post could be triggering so please approach with caution! I’ve been having a lot of intrusive thoughts about the devil getting sent my intrusive thoughts and then making them come true. This has also led some of my intrusive thoughts to include that they’re for him. It’s really scary. I’m not even religious, but it’s really hard to shake. Does anyone have any advice or comfort? Thanks <3
Scary intrusive thoughts For the past 8 months I’ve been terrified of developing schizophrenia, I’ve gone through various stages of this theme, like in the beginning I was really afraid of hallucinating and stuff like that but as the months and this obsession progressed I’ve become more afraid of having delusions and the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. In the beginning after watching a demonic horror movie or something I would start getting awful intrusive thoughts like “what if I start to believe my wife is a demon” or “what if I start believing the government is run by satan” or some shit, but now i get thoughts like that all the time and even without watching horror movies, and now the “what if I start to believe” part is gone and now the thoughts are like “what if my wife is a demon.. well you can’t prove she’s not” etc etc. my ocd or anxiety has really latched onto these delusional, demonic thoughts. I hate them so much, I have never ever believed in superstitious stuff like this before, I am a literal atheist and a secular humanist. What is wrong with me? Has anyone ever had intrusive thoughts like this?
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