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QUITE a few years ago i had a dream of judgement day and i wont detail it. however it was scary. i keep having intrusive thoughts about it. how do i make it stop
QUITE a few years ago i had a dream of judgement day and i wont detail it. however it was scary. i keep having intrusive thoughts about it. how do i make it stop
I have also had similar fears or dreams about this my case. I’m Christian, so God being offended by my OCd or intrusive thoughts. I think God knows that I can’t help the fact that I have OCD and he still loves me anyway and hopefully just ignores the intrusive thoughts that I don’t mean to have. I feel like God is a all seeing being and he knows more than anyone else so he would know and understand that OCD doesn’t make you bad person, It just makes you a person with a very intense fear disorder, unfortunately.
Also, from experience, try your best to learn to not feel shame from your OCD after all it is just fears it’s not actual hurting anyone, so try not to feel ashamed of it ,feeling shame will just hurt make it harder on yourself. Stay strong
Hi. I just posted something to another post and I am copy/pasting here bc it seems to apply. I hope you find it helpful. ———————- One thing that helps me is the truth of how much God the Father, Christ, and the Holy Spirit do on our behalf - INDEPENDENT of anything we do. John 6:37-40 says: All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out. 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. 39 This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. 40 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” I love this passage - The Father gives us to Christ, Christ does not lose us and will raise us up on the last day. And this of course is all in line with the Holy Spirit sealing our salvation (Ephesians 1:13-14). So when I see all that God does, the fear of evil is lessened. I say that because OCD is super good at taking the greatest things in our lives (like a relationship with God) and somehow turning and twisting it into anxiety and a list of things we need to do to “make sure” we haven’t messed up. So the more we see God’s grace - specifically grace - we start to get freedom….bc grace is APART from anything we do, that is actually in the definition of grace. Easier said than done, but I have learned that if I can get the truth of His grace from my head to my heart - even just a little bit - then I start to experience freedom.
So something that kinda pops up with my anxiety is about a year or so ago i ate an edible gummy after not doing anything for a while and i tripped out really bad… for example i thought i was gonna overdose and die, and that i was already dead.. that is the most fear i have felt in my entire life, and even though its over and has been over i have this constant fear in my mind “what if your still high and this is all a dream” or “your gonna wake up and it will still be that night” i never wanna feel that way again. i can’t even go around the smell of weed with out freaking out. i can’t take pills, or vitamin gummies because “what if it will make me high” when it comes to sleeping i wanna try this dr teals sleep blend but i struggle so much with it because of my mind saying “it will make you feel high”.. even when i feel tired i feel scared cause it reminds me of feeling high.. its just i feel so stuck with the same reaccrujng thought “this could be the time you wake up and it was all just a dream” “you could wake up from coma and this was all imagined” i don’t know what else to do, its my own mind no one can help me and that sucks i don’t know how to win the battle when it’s such a deep rooted fear. i feel like im pushing my family away. i feel so numb.
How do yall handle intrusive thoughts !? I never realized that was a thing I think I’ve been dealing with this sense I was in elementary school I remember getting on the bus and had the the worry my mom was gonna get in an accident and it’s just gone from there
My intrusive images were an absolute nightmare back in April. I honestly don’t even know how it got better, I had written a letter to God begging for help. Well recently idk if it’s because I’ve been stressed a lot again and ruminating on a lot of pocd related things from the past the make me worry, but the images have started again and even though they are repulsive and awful, I feel like I’m not reacting how I should. I think I just got to where I would just try to like blink it away and ignore it, but I feel so bad if I’m not feeling absolute shame and guilt. I feel like I feel too normal and sometimes I forget that if anyone knew besides people on here, I can’t imagine what people would think, but I also know it’s not who I am so I feel like I don’t worry as much as I should. Also, I can’t stop worrying about fanfiction I read when I was like 16 and 17. It really bothers me because I keep wondering did I imagine this one character my age? Why did I read this? Did I even know what aging up was then, and even if I did it’s wrong and gross anyway but if I didn’t age this character up then that’s awful. And i just can’t let go but I think it’s triggering me to have the images so idk what to do.
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