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Yup! I’m a Christian and I’ve had religious OCD, SO-OCD, you name it. You are not alone and your OCD does not define your walk with our Lord. 🫶✝️ Matthew 11:28, “Come to me, all you who are weary and I will give you rest.”

I’ve struggled with religious OCD too. As well as harm OCD. It was only until I realized that no matter what I did or how much I tried, I could not “save” myself (i.e. fix my thoughts, sins, and behavior) I had to let Jesus do it. When He said “it is finished” he meant it. Proverbs 3:5-6 also guides me. Between trusting in Jesus and ERP, I eventually started to do better with many ups and downs along the way. It’s an ongoing process, but it can and does get better. It took me about a year and a half after I started therapy to get better, but I am glad that I did because OCD had been disrupting my life for well over a decade.

I really like your username - Jesus is King. I'm also a Christian who struggles with Religious OCD. I'm thankful to you all who have posted your stories here - so brave. You give me hope as I start my journey with all of this.

I’ve been having religious ocd too. It’s been on my mind like crazy. To the point I feel like everything I do could be wrong. I don’t follow a certain denomination right now but I try and follow all universal values (monotheism, being kind, patience, etc…) usually my sinful actions are towards myself not towards other people such as self deprecation, making fun of myself, looking up answers to tests….am I doing ok???

I am a Christian and I have struggled with just about every theme at some point in my life. Ask me anything. (I won’t provide reassurance)

Hello my friend. Actually I am not a Christian, I am a Muslim but like you I have religious OCD. All I know is that our God is much bigger and more generous than anything we can even imagine and the love God has for us is indescribable. No matter what happens and despite everything, God and our saints hear us without any prejudice and support us and know the truth of our hearts. I want you to know that you are not alone and there are many people in the world who have this problem like us and don't even know what it is and blame themselves for it but we are lucky to have achieved a relative self-awareness about ourselves and our thoughts, and I hope this message has been able to make you feel better at least a little bit❤️

Me!!! It’s even more overwhelming thinking about whether god wants me in this relationship or not. Sometimes I even think maybe god is allowing us to have problems so that I can leave him. Even vise versa, “god is teaching us a lesson to make our relationship stronger” it’s a never ending loop of confusion

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YES. For many years, my OCD (scrupulosity) would tell me I had offended someone in something I had said in conversation, or, my scrupulosity would tell me that I needed to confess somethign I had said or done years ago. It was heavy and depressing for me because the weight of the guilt was strong and it was on the top of my mind very often. The obsession (I didn't know it was an obsession, I thought it was a legitimate thought, or "conviction") was, "you'll have to suffer with this weight" UNLESS (compulsion) you go to that person and confess. The problem was that most often another thought/instance would take it's place. So very discouraging. And I thought, as a Christian, I needed to "reconcile" with those I had offended. It got all mixed up. In truth, I was (and do) struggling with OCD, which was exacerbated by my desire to live a Christian life. Over the years, I've learned to (try) tp let those thoughts happen, and to simply not act on them. I've seen some freedom in not acting on them. OCD is a bully and a liar. "DO IT! CONFESS! IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO PEACE." "OH WAIT, YOU DIDN'T DO THAT WELL ENOUGH. YOU FORGOT ONE SMALL THING, SO YOU WILL NOT HAVE PEACE UNTIL YOU FIX THAT PART ALSO." It can be exhausting and discouraging. I've seen that freedom lies in refusing to do the compulsion (confess). It was quite helpful to me once I learned that those thoughts were not necessarily from my Christian faith, but rather they were from OCD. That's not my only OCD theme that I've expereinced in my life to be sure, but it was one of them. :) Please hang in there and keep learning about OCD. Jesus is bigger than our human frailities, and will walk with us through our struggles. (Psalm 23).