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I really need help I keep making promises on accident to God. I don't know if this makes any sense. I used to think that if j gave into materialistic things like chocolate and music and films something bad would happen and I ended up finding it really hard I even starved myself. Now I can get myself to do things by thinking things like 'I promise on my dad's life to eat this chocolate for example' or I promise on my dads life to not do the compulsion of touching this picture of God twice' and I actually feel able to live my life. But... I keep accidentally making promises to God on my dad's life like if I promised to watch all of movie, I would have to try not to blink at any part so I would be able to watch ALL of it and not break the promise. I'll be getting ready to leave my room and my head will say 'promise on your dad's life not to leave for another hour' and I was stuck. I thought it was all okay but recently it feels like my broken promises are having an effect on my dad I don't know why I just feel like it is and I begged God for them to not have any affect but I don't know, I really hope they don't I couldn't live with myself.

Religion & Spirituality OCD

Charles117

Date posted: 1y

A promise requires consent. If it’s just a thought, it’s not even a promise. If you felt compelled or not in control then there was no consent and no promise. In the end, just give it no mind. If it helps to say “Ok sure” then great and move on. If you can’t move unless you do and don’t want to, worry about it even less. (Easier said than done) The more out of control you are, the less any “promise” holds

Preena

Date posted: 1y

But the whole point is that I do consent :( but I am going to stop now because I would rather never give into anything materialistic like clothes or movies that have something happen to my dad, I don't choose it

Preena

Date posted: 1y

What if it's like I want to paint my nails but I know that I wouldn't let myself giveninto that materialistic thing so the only way is by thinking 'i promise on my mum's life to paint my nails today' and then I forget? I am sorry for all the questions

Charles117

Date posted: 1y

@Anonymous Sounds like you’ve got a way out is what it sounds like. If that’s what it takes, that’s what it takes but it holds no value. Do it until it stops holding meaning because it never did to begin with. Promise to put out the sun tomorrow on the life of your father, the sun will still be there and so will your dad.

Preena

Date posted: 1y

@Charles117 Yess it is a way out but also it feels bad because I don't want to be prioritising materialistic things as they're ignorance in my religion and I keep thinking I'll get punished for giving into them 😭 last month I couldn't even eat food because I thought I would be choosing the materialistic pleasure of taste over my mum being healthy and I would have to sacrifice it for her health :(

Preena

Date posted: 1y

@Charles117 Also it really feels like it's holding meaning! I was fine with doing it before I started realising that it feels like it literally is causing an effect and I keep apologising to Lord Krishna as they don't mean anything and I don't want them to have an effect

Anonymous

Date posted: 18w

Religious OCD

Hey all. I need help. I am sitting on my bathroom floor freaking out and convinced that all my work towards getting better has gone out the window. I am so scared of the “bad guy” getting me all the time. I constantly feel like I have to prove to God that I don’t mean these awful feelings and thoughts that I have about the bad guy. I’ve had trouble sleeping tonight, going in and out of consciousness, all while dealing with bad thoughts going in and out of my head. Finally I woke up and am flooded with “you have so many thoughts and feeling that you let slide while you were trying to sleep. You had thoughts that you accepted the bad guy and you didn’t dispute them before you tried to move on. You have so much to answer for.” So now I’m sitting here in my bathroom floor hysterically crying and begging God to believe me when I say I don’t any of these thoughts or feelings… please someone help

issphra 🫶🏻

Date posted: 16w

Anyone religious on here?

im scared. I keep compulsively praying for bad things or death on the people I love. I don’t understand why. It doesn’t make anything better. I’m scared that these prayers count. I seal them as I do with most of my prayers in Jesus name and with a double amen. I’m scared God will want to teach me a lesson and make something come true. I’m scared I mean these prayers, I’m petrified. If something happened, I wouldn’t be able to live with myself :( I don’t know where to go from here

nunu

Date posted: 8w

Need help please reply don't let me alone

I have listen somewhere that a person will die after 3 days if he or she will take false swear oath of a particular place I have religious and blasphemous thought ocd and my mind manipulate me to take oath he fears me my mind manipulate me 24 by 7 to take the oath I resist it now my mind has develop strange thing I have death fear also whenever thought come I am going to die blasphemous thoughts comes and abusive thoughts comes againts God and holy spirits and a voice Lound in my mind to take oath of abusive words against them death fear mix with anger that they are not giving me life and all such things occurred I know it's not good but that time I cannot control on myself now after that my fear of die after 3 days develop my mind says to me you have take a false oath now I am weeping and shivering I have taken wrong oath i will die but I cannot control myself that time now I am unable to understand what is this. My brain force me to take oath with mix of anger hate against them I think I don't love them. It's so painful

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