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 ever have ocd having to do with religion, like Christianity?
Like myself and Jenette McCurdy, does anyone think that the Holy Spirit talks to them? OCD attacks all my beliefs. As I was sitting down on my chair reading something, a thought came up in my head saying come Holy Spirit when I wasn’t even trying to talk to God in that moment. My thoughts went on saying will this happen, and I heard like 2 voices. One said yes the other said no. I stopped in my tracks. I feel like crying and anxious as I type this. It wasn’t a feeling that made me feel peaceful, calm or happy like what the Holy Spirit does, rather than be confused and anxious. I never believe the Holy Spirit would answer a question like that rather than just being you up when down. My OCD has been toying with this one thing mainly and it was attack about it just now. It feels so convincing that that was the Holy Spirit and I’m filled with anxiety
So today while I was talking to myself, sometimes I do this, my mind said something like to ask for a sign from God and I didn’t mean to ask it or even wanting to ask it. I was talking to myself about something that happened a few months back for when I asked God, my grandmother who’s my guardian angel, and St Therese to help me get over the hunch of scrupulosity and OCD (I’m Catholic). They then gave me a sign in Church to let them know that they heard me and I felt peace, love and excitement then. I have been dealing with something lately that I asked them then to send me a sign if something didn’t happen or occurred, even though I couldn’t picture myself saying that. If anything I would have said the exact opposite to prove what happened or occurred, not to show me a sign if something beautiful didn’t happen. Yet the feeling felt so strong as if I did say that and it kept replaying in my mind over and over again. Going back to in the moment, It just went to my mind and blurted to my mouth about asking a sign from God even though I didn’t mean for it or intended it. I then got a thought thinking that I saw something later this morning thinking that God sent me a sign about something. Well, later this morning while looking at my daily Bible app, I saw something and my mind and feelings said that God sent me that sign. Now I’m flooded with anxiety because I was getting these thoughts before and now they like manifested into reality. It’s like as if God planted those thoughts in my head to tell me what’s coming and what will happen. I’m so angry, anxious and sad. I’m scared now that what I didn’t say is actually something that I said. It’s like God is constantly trying to tell me something and he’s keeping on telling me as if he’s playing a game with me and he won’t do it until I give up and give in. I don’t know what to do. I felt very depressed last night because last night because I couldn’t take this anymore as if God is telling me these things or he revealed me to something. Is this God or OCD that’s doing all this to me? I know it’s a lot but I just need feedback from you guys
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