Has OCD ever kicked in whenever you felt God’s presence? I felt like it’s been this way for me many times. I could get peaceful and then thoughts could come into my head and I wouldn’t like it at all. Can OCD do this?
I get intrusive thoughts sometime when praying, attending Mass, etc. I just tell God I don't mean it, it's just OCD, then I move on. I figure God knows more about what I'm going through than I, so I just try to let it go and move on. OCD will always go after your values and fears. It's the nature of the disorder.
Yes! This happens to me all the time when I pray 🙄😔As soon as ocd notices you’re not thinking about your fears, it will try to throw another thought in your face to get you to pay attention to it again! It sucks!!!😖 but you are not alone in this!!! ❤️❤️❤️
OCD can show up at any time. Doesn't matter if you are doing the dishes or worshipping - or both at the same time. Often when we want to be in peace or enjoy something we are more scared of being disturbed and are more sensitive what us going on in the mind. The best thing to do is to just notice the thought, shrug your shoulders and continue to worship. The less you care, the less they will bother you.
Yep! Sometimes I’ll be in deep prayer feel completely free and peaceful and the. BAM!!! Starts all over again……..LORD HAVE MERCY’
I had an experience where I was feeling Gods presence and I was super happy and peaceful and then I told myself „I will never question God again“ and right after that thought I got doubt again and the anxiety got triggered
She is really good. Also, I wrote a book about OCD from a Christian Perspective….you can see more about it at www.WagingWarAgainstOCD.com. Mark deJesus is also very good, he has videos on YouTube and has written a couple of books. I’ve read some of the first and really really like it.
Everyone here should check out Jaimie Eckert at scrupulosity.com
Does anyone else get intrusive thoughts while praying or thinking of God? It has been stressing me out so bad. I feel like I’m a bad Christian or somethings wrong with me cause sometimes I get flooded with intrusive thoughts when I try to focus my time on God.
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
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.
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