Does OCD ever make it seem that if you follow your dreams, preferences and goals you will punished by God. I get that feeling a lot that God will punish me if I do and that I’m getting thoughts of God telling me to give up my desires and goals. It’s really stressing me out and getting me sad, anxious, disappointed and angry
God will not tell you that unless it’s a sinful desire. Anyways, read your Bible so that you can get to know Him. God is full of grace and he actually gives us the desires of our hearts. This is a condemnation based fear.
Look up scrupulosity that's what I have too. OCD will always target what we love or fear the most unfortunately. It's just another theme of OCD. I hope you can conquer this disorder I know how painful it can be. Check out this YouTube channel it's helped me a lot. Name of channel is OCD and Anxiety. Remember to embrace uncertainty. You don't have to accept that it's true you just have to accept that it might be true even if it's highly unlikely. You get to choose how to react to your thoughts and feelings.
I have struggled with this immensely. My favorite hobby (BY FAR) is sports photography....and I struggled for years - thinking it was an idol, or not God's will, or would distract me from God. I go into details about that in my book "Waging War Against OCD - A Christian Approach to Victory." You can see more details at WagingWarAgainstOCD.com One answer I have found is that fears similar to this are usually based in a misconception we have about God. Meaning, if God is a mean judging merciless God, then it is important to make sure we don't do anything that could unleash His wrath on us. But if we see Him as He is - full of love, mercy, kindness, gentleness, slow to anger, full of grace - then we are much more free in making decisions and in choosing things to pursue.
Do yall get dreams and feel it was a message from God or a higher up to do something and you panic because you dont want yo do it but what if your disobeying God or your in denial and that dream was a message, and what you want isnt what you want. I was actually ok in this type of ocd for a while and this dream came and now im back to zero and worried and scared idk what to do. Anyone have this?
In the past, I used to pray 100 times out of fear that God would punish me by giving me or someone I love cancer, or worse. Even though I got out of that compulsion, I still fear God. I pray for my entire family every night out of fear that if I don't, God will kill someone close to me or kill me. During Bible study today, my mom essentially explained that people who don't truly believe in God won't be protected by God. I'm essentially Agnostic, because I'm convinced that if God does exist he hates me. I feel trapped. On one hand I feel like If I stop praying or believing in him then he will make my life worse than it already is. But I have OCD, an eating disorder, I suffer so much in so many aspects of my life and I worry the reason is because God hates me. I'm scared one or these days he's going to push me to my last straw. Does anyone have a similar experience?
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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