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- Whitestar
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- 6y ago
@Whitestar hey so I’m Christian and here’s the thing with god, god loves you even if you have sex before marriage, if you have sex at all, if you’re a different sexuality, etc. I know religion is such a big thing but we can’t revolve our lives around what god wants. After all he wants us to be happy, so go out and do what makes YOU happy.
Thanks guys so much. I really really appreciate it, because I feel very alone in this obsession. I don’t know it’s like I get this huge overwhelming fear that god is watching this part of my mind which might be dirty?? Like that scares the shit out of me that god can see or know.. it’s killed my sexuality with everything. Even something simple like flirting or thinking about sexual things in like omg no no no it’s dirty and god is watching this. Then I am so uncomfortable by this:( I don’t even know how to be ‘okay’ with those thoughts? Like how to do exposure or acceptance :’(
Yes I am Christian too. I don’t feel like that at all... I don’t feel the love God has. I don’t even know if I believe it anymore, what do we truly believe? Like I got so much existential ocd at a time that it made me so scared like what is it to believe something ? What is right and wrong? Yeah.. it’s just so hard and I’m so far gone. I wish I never had looked into Christianity because this all started around the same time. I would read and read my Bible for hours a day and take everything so literally
@Whitestar If I can help you out at all here: I’m a fellow Christian who struggles with scrupulosity. It definitely causes me to beat myself up over any thoughts that could be sinful, including lustful sexual thoughts. Let me tell you the truth. Lust is sinful. So are thoughts of hurting people, like a lot of OCD sufferers deal with. The thing is… there’s a lot of thoughts that can’t be helped. The things that pop in your head are not things you can help. Lustful thoughts that pop in your head and you can’t seem to stop them, even if you are trying desperately to, are not sinful. God understands your brain chemicals. He created you. He loves you. Even if you were sinning, He died so we could be washed white as snow. It’s taken me forever to view myself as someone completely forgiven by Jesus, even when I try so hard and still fail. Repenting and believing is key. Repenting does not mean you get everything right and don’t struggle anymore. It means you’re trying. God is aware of your struggles. He sees you. He knows you and your heart. Let me tell you as well, sexual desire is not sinful. God created sex as a beautiful thing for marriage. He wired us a certain way. Sin distorted that desire. Know you are not the most awful person on the face of the earth. We are all awful people who have sinned and have fallen short of God’s glory. We don’t deserve His love. However, He has more than willingly given us what we don’t deserve. He doesn’t view us truly disgusting, never enough, and unable to please Him. We are worth it because He made us in His image, not because we are good. We were worth dying for. Remember that God does not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind. Those thoughts are not ones He wants you to obsessed with or worried about. He wants you to rest in Him. Do so. I’m praying for you as I consistently go through the same thing and have to the point of suicidal thoughts. I hope things get better for you. You are not alone, and YOU WERE WORTH DYING FOR.
I really appreciate any advice or anything!! I know it’s weird if it’s not your obsession.. but it’s so hard for me ? (Btw I only became religious in December when all this started and have had sex previous to any of this)
I have suppressed eveything sexual and I am worried everything is dirty and wrong :’(
Oh thank you so much for your message. Would you recommend me getting this book? Or would it worsen my scrupulousity? Martin Luther king, what a man.
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The thoughts are oh so bad again. I even can get turned on by the thought of being sexual with a girl but I really don’t want it. ( I’m a girl ). At least I don’t think I do. I looked up questioning sexuality and it said THIS MAY TRIGGER YOU— it said that if you fear it, it may be because you want it because “sexual attraction can be scary”. I don’t want to be with a girl but I feel like lately that’s all I can think about. I can’t even get turned on or get off ( sorry TMI maybe ) to the opposite sex but I can so easily with the same sex even though I don’t really want to. This is so scary I’m not sure what to do.
Really struggling at the moment with sexuality OCD, getting to the point where I’m constantly on the verge of tears, I’m avoiding watching movies, Netflix series, scrolling through Instagram and tiktok. I’m 18 and everyone around me seems to be bi, but I’m so scared I’m not attracted to guys anymore. I want children and I have always wanted to be with a guy, now I can barely look at anyone and I can’t even think about being in a relationship. My brain is like ‘your lying to yourself’ ‘what if your gay’ etc. I can’t do anything anymore, I just want to hide and curl up. Anyone else feel like this.. I’m scared I’m in denial or something, I have never been formally diagnosed but I’ve had so many other themes, I’m scared it’s not ocd and I’m using it as an excuse.. I just want to go back to normal
I got into porn when I was around 14 or 15 I think and it just got very bad for a few years and I have a lot of guilt and worry for the things that I saw and touched myself to. I came across some bad things. I stopped all of that but I can’t get over the guilt from my teenage years. It bothers me all day long and disrupts my sleep now too. It leaks into my dreams. I just woke up from a dream related to that probably because I worry all day. Life is not enjoyable anymore all I do is worry in my head and say affirmations to try to make myself feel better. Right now I’m worried about so many things but specifically I’m worried what if someone I saw in a video was way younger? I remember being on xvideos as a teen and wanting to imagine myself with other people my age and I know I’m worried what if I watched something on there where the people were younger??? I think I remember putting teens in the search bar and it scares me because even though I was a teen myself I feel like that is wrong now and I’m worried about what I may have watched. I’m giving up on myself more everyday. I know I have zero attraction to minors and I know back then as a teenager I was not attracted to anyone anyone not around my age but I worry so much about things I watched and came across. I wish I had never watched porn as a teenager it has ruined my life and it haunts me every day. And also horrible fan fiction stories and other stories people wrote online that haunt me too. I’m worried I can’t ever recover or find help and I feel like I’m going to go to jail or end up k1lling myself one day because I can’t deal with it. I worry when I’m not crying or having too much anxiety I feel like I need to constantly be in distress and I am not allowed to enjoy anything or have anything. I don’t want anything anymore. I don’t want to do anything anymore accept just sit and worry and feel myself I hate myself. I feel ashamed to be around my family and anytime they do anything for me my brain goes “they don’t know they’re hugging a monster” “they don’t know they’re supporting a monster” and I just can’t take it. I want to find joy in life again. I would do anything just to be a normal person and not have had any of this happen and not have these worries. I feel like a mess every day I look so gross and I feel so gross and I feel like nobody can help me. I’m getting help soon but I just feel like it’s too late and like I’ve ruined myself and I just don’t feel good about the future. I feel like I am going to get sent away and that will hurt my family or end myself eventually and that would hurt them. I don’t want to hurt my family or anyone. I question how I could have ever been that person and what was wrong with me. I keep thinking back to things that happened before I was a teenager and I’m like does that count as trauma or something? Could this be why?? But also I don’t want to make excuses or feel like I’m pushing the blame onto someone else. I am the only one at fault. I’m sorry I keep writing these long posts I’m just not in a good place mentally. I feel like I am really sick in the head or something and I’m starting to fear maybe I have always been that way. I just want so desperately to be good. I don’t want anything other than to be a normal good healthy minded person and be here to support my family and others. I don’t care about myself succeeding in anything other than getting better, I just want to support my family in succeeding in whatever they want. I don’t want money or anything for myself. I have more than I deserve. I just want to get better. I pray but I don’t feel like I can be forgiven
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