What I noticed

I watched a podcast about ocd and values, and i learned there how ocd attack your values... i said here alot of times that its hard for me to understand what to do cause ocd makes it so confusing. Like for an exemple today i didnt do much for streghtening my relationship with God, so next time i should do something to not lose this connection, and all of the sudden my ocd made it like "i have to pray or listen something christian related cause if i dont do i lose the relationship" so it became something I "must" do. So before i saw this like maybe im just wanting this relationship because of ocd, because im afraid, and then i felt wrong that for erp i have to stop trying to connect with God, so i stopped doing what i wanted to do and I felt really bad... But after i learned this from that podcast now I see that ocd is even more confusing. It can make you feel like the things you want to do you do it cause of ocd...

Username: PRIV8PRIV8

Date posted: 1y ago

And i forgot to add that this is why i dont like to find what i really want to do, cause if i come up with something, my mind is full with "you do this cause of ocd, you dont really want to do this, its a compulsion, it will just make your ocd worse, you will not recover" and sometimes just a little bit of this is enough to make me confused cause one of these thoughts comes, makes me anxious and i feel like i dont really enjoy that thing what i do, but then choose to do it but in a way to fight back to these thoughts cause i get angry, and all just becomes a fight where the ocd gets stronger...

Username: PRIV8PRIV8

Date posted: 1y ago

@HyperAwarenessQueen I would say something about the " happiest people are dumb people" thing but i skip it cause it would be triggering for some... I know thinking too much isnt good, but i wouldnt be on the other side either... the best is in the middle, think about some things through but then focus on the action

Username: Sunshine&flowers7Sunshine&flo...

Date posted: 1y ago

@PRIV8, I'm a born again Christian. I'm sorry you are going through this struggle. Just know that Jesus loves you even in your struggle. HE wants you to draw near to Him because He wants a close relationship with you. We are not and never will be perfect in our walk with Christ, however, HE still desires us to draw near to Him and fellowship with Him. If ERP is telling you to not do that, I would try a different technique. Staying away from the Lord is against what the Bible tells us to do. Accepting that your relationship with Christ will never be perfect and that there will be times you don't spend with Him is a good place to start. ❤️

Username: Experience JunkieExperience J...

Date posted: 1y ago

I feel the exact same way! The topic is different but the feelings are the same. I get a feeling like I want to do something, then I have the thought of “wait, is this my ocd telling me what to do? Or do I actually want to do this?” Its extremely hard to decipher your values…

Username: Dess

Date posted: 4y ago

When I listen to success stories and podcasts of people saying they manage it better I don’t know why my mind says “you could never do that” “your ocd is worse and different” “you are stuck like this” so I try to listen to podcasts of people overcoming their worst fears and it makes me sad and anxious but I feel like it could be erp?

Username: Puppy

Date posted: 2y ago

Confusion

Sometimes I have thoughts that I would normally assume to be ocd, not sound like ocd. I start to think/feel that it's God telling me to do these things?? I then end up feeling guilty for not immediately implementing these things into my life. I hate that so much of what used to feel like ocd seems unclear. I don't feel like a good person. I know a lot of sermons aren't made with ocd in mind, but I feel like I'm not listening to God if I don't listen to thoughts I would've thought were ocd before

Username: taurising

Date posted: 1y ago

obsessing over ocd

Since my recent flare up, I feel like i'm now i'm now obsessing over OCD. I open Youtube to look up videos about how to live with it, I open NOCD almost immediately after waking up, I'm downloading books recommended, saving podcast episodes, joining online suport groups. I didn't notice it before but it almost feels counter productive? But I also do want to recover I don't even know what to even ground myself to at this point

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