BrownBunE
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- 1y
Stepping away?
For those who have stepped away from religion, did your OCD and scrupulosity become more manageable? Where you able to stop thinking about spirituality?
ElevenBElevenB
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- OCD Conqueror
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- 1y
For me personally I can't give up on God because He doesn't give up on me. It feels like He has, but that's where I have to trust in what the bible says, He never leaves or forsakes. It's a struggle to go to church, pray, read the Bible, but I take it slow and give myself grace to the best of my ability, because I know it's OCD. That's just my journey, everyone's path is different. But I have to walk mine with God.
BrownBunEBrownBunE
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- 1y
In some ways it does. Thank you for your honesty. I was majorly triggered by a spiritual event and I don't see how I can continue down this path. I'm tired and confused and not sure what to do.
AnonymousAnonymous
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 1y
For me it helped in the long run, it was very difficult leaving my religion because of the uncertainty of whether or not it could be true, but like with other erp practice that anxiety came down. I think my religion and beliefs contributed a lot to my ocd, so it was one less thing to worry about once I got through the pains of leaving ones previous faith
BrownBunEBrownBunE
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- 1y
So you still consider yourself a spiritual person or are you an athiest?
AnonymousAnonymous
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- 1y
@BrownBunE I consider myself an atheist, not because my ocd drove me away from believing, or that working through my ocd led me away either, I think that was the logical conclusion I would have come to eventually. I think it did help me in my ocd journey because religion just didn’t work for me personally, so being out of it I was able to better focus on my healing journey
jacivyjacivy
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- 17w
@Anonymous Would you consider atheism to be a kind of curative for OCD. In essence the nature of OCD is similar to the belief in a divine/god/universe and once the belief in god does away OCD goes away too?
AnonymousAnonymous
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 17w
@jacivy Unfortunately not, even though becoming atheist did help me reduce and eventually get rid of some of my more prominent themes in OCD, my brain still worked the same way and found other distressing thoughts that caused me anxiety. So while it helped take the edge off a little bit I still had a long journey after becoming atheist :)
Misstama65Misstama65
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- OCD Conqueror
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- 42w
It helped a lot. This was my first big ocd theme. It was ruining my life and making it hard for me to care for my family as I was in so much distress all day long. I decided it was better to be agnostic and hope that if there was a god he/she would understand. I had toayve maybe not the whole subject to be honest. After the theme went away I was able to logically decide I truly was agnostic
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