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- 30w
Fear of going to hell
This is a realistic fear for me. Had it for decades.
This is a realistic fear for me. Had it for decades.
What do you think can help you with this fear?
We’re in the same boat. I feel like I’m walking on a ridge and with every step I run the risk of committing something that can condemn me. I find relief in the thought that in O C D these intrusive thoughts represent the opposie of who you are in your heart so that’s our evidence that we are as far from actually running the risk of being punished as humanly possible. You’re in my thoughts and prayers
Hi there, I am a Christian too. I have felt this for many decades too. The best advice I can give you is that ERP will take this fear and shrink it down to where it doesn't really bother you anymore.....yes it takes a bit of work but a few weeks or months work on this is so well worth it .
Hi there! 😊 I want you to know that you're definitely not alone in what you're going through. Many people experience similar worries and thoughts, and it's perfectly normal to feel this way and is often linked to OCD. I have attached a link that I think you'll find really helpful. Please take a look when you have time: https://www.treatmyocd.com/blog/scrupulosity-ocd and if you relate at all to what you read in that article, consider calling the care team at NOCD.
Complete acceptance is what finally broke me out of it. I had to accept that going to hell was a possibility. It felt like hell accepting that, but I finally after a couple years removed from that, no longer fear it. Nor do I think Im going.
Sucks. But maybe. Theres nothing u or i can do about it now. Other than follow the Bible. I used to lose sleep about this but any more the only thing you can do is read your bible and do what it says right? The weird thing is worrying really doesn't do anything to help the situation. Believe God will do what he says and if not theres nothing you can do about it. Your control is limited to that. Sounds more like a faith question. Do u believe what God said? Or what the Bible says? Are u Born again? The ocd will always cast doubts thats what it does. I say as long as your born again theres nothing that will separate you from him. Others say you can lose salvation no knows for sure. I mean hell we are spinning on a rock in nothingness also called the universe. What makes sense nothing really. Think about why is grass green cuz thats what someone decided. Do u question if its green or do u just believe it is. Nothing really makes any sense if u really think about it. So the best thing you can do in my opinion is to tell the ocd to talk to God cuz hes got this not you. Also the fact your worrying about tells me your probably fine or you wouldn't worry about this. Instead of worrying talk with him, fast and read his word he will answer you. But it might not be the answer you expect or in the time frame u want.
At first, it just started as harmless questions, curiously exploring the universe and what life and death mean as a human. Then it became an obsession about death and the afterlife. I’m a Catholic-turned-agnostic who recently took an interest in religion again, trying to redevelop a relationship with God without letting the fear of not being good enough and possibly going to Hell taking over me. Instead, my brain latched onto the possibility that there is no God, that there’s eternal nothingness after the short time we have here on earth and that everything means nothing. My love for my friends and family. My desire to achieve my goals, and to be happy for the people I love achieving theirs. I’m haunted by the feeling that it will all be for nothing, that I will never be reunited with those that I love, that the people I love who have passed on have ceased to exist and one day, so will I and everyone else. I can’t function now. I’ve made myself physically ill over this. I’ve lost my appetite. As someone who once took pride in how much love I have for my job as a daycare teacher, I come into work and feel numb. I go home and feel numb. I’ve obsessively started telling the people in my life how much I love and appreciate them because for the past three days, I’ve been sick thinking about how one day, either I’ll leave them or they’ll leave me. It feels like nothing matters. It feels like everything is in vain. I’ve tried so hard to reframe my mindset, to rewire my brain to not think that way. I’ve tried ERP techniques of allowing myself to sit with the discomfort that the fear brings. To try and desensitize myself to this fear. Nothing seems to work. I’m so lost. I’ve been this way for three days, with yesterday and today being worse than the day it started. It’s like the obsession is morphing into depression in a way. I’m scared I’ll never feel enjoyment in any form again. I don’t know what to do anymore.
I’ve been worried that I will go to hell and have lost a lot of my interests, personality and even music I like . I don’t know who I am anymore
Few years back I went to a funeral when I come home I have developed irrational fear of death my legs were shivering I am unable to sleep at night my life become hell. I could not take food properly and irrational fear make my life worse after some time I developed blasphemous thoughts about God and religious figures and it becomes worse everyday was hell for me the fear was so terrific that God will kill me some numbers comes in my mind like next Friday I will died etc then my sister helps me in it that is just thoughts you are not doing then gradually I started living with them in between these thoughts used to come but I was normal but now again one of my loved one death trigger these thoughts again and I am suffering all the above mentioned stuff in a horrible way. I cannot sleep fear of hell blasphemous thoughts what will happen with be afterward the first night in grave everything is horrified me I don't know what to do death fear making it more worse.
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