religious ocd

I have been getting reassurance from someone on here… I know this is not what we should be doing… but I have a fear that the bad guy is going to get me and that things I do will lead to that… I think I misread what he/she was saying but I’m too triggered to look back and see, but I thought the message said “I talked to the bad guy” and I am freaking out on my bathroom floor… I thought about it and what that looked like and now I feel like I cleave into the bad guy…. Someone please help

LittleLight

Date posted: 8w

This sounds like Magical thinking in OCD when a person believes that their thoughts, mental images, or specific actions (like reading or misreading something) can somehow cause or prevent real-world outcomes—especially things that feel morally or spiritually significant. It can cause you to feel your thoughts have real power or consequences beyond the normal cause-and-effect of life. This is a very common overlap in religious OCD. The magical thinking component is what makes it feel so urgent and dangerous, even though it’s actually a thinking trap created by OCD. Your faith is important to you thus it attacks it 😒 It’s religious OCD. It has a strong magical thinking component. It’s also driven by compulsions like checking, reassurance-seeking, mental reviewing, and possibly avoidance.

Anonymous

Date posted: 8w

@LittleLight I am so scared….

Anonymous

Date posted: 8w

@LittleLight I haven’t been able to watch videos like this because I’m afraid they will talk about the bad guy

Vamp DeVille

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 8w

Hey, I’m really sorry you’re feeling this way right now — I know how overwhelming and real those thoughts can feel when OCD gets loud, especially when it taps into fear and morality like this. First: you’re safe. I know your brain is telling you otherwise, but you are not in danger, and you haven’t done anything wrong. OCD can twist even the smallest things — a phrase, a message, a fleeting thought — and make it feel like it has deep, terrifying meaning. But it doesn’t. It’s just a thought, just a misfire from a brain that’s trying to protect you in all the wrong ways. You’re having a fear response — not a moral failure. There’s no bad guy, no threat, no deeper meaning hidden in that message. This is your OCD playing tricks on your sense of safety and identity, and you are not obligated to engage with it. Right now, just focus on your breath. You can even say to yourself, “This is just a thought. It feels real, but it’s not dangerous.” You are not alone in this. And you are going to be okay. 💛

Anonymous

Date posted: 8w

@Vamp DeVille I read “there is no bad guy” and now my mind is spinning… because of my Christianity, i was trying to rationalize what I believe and when I thought “no that guy exists because it’s in my religion” I started freaking out because it feels like I am now putting extra emphasis on him…

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

Anonymous

Date posted: 17w

Religious OCD

Hey everyone, I need help. I woke up just now with the worst thoughts ever. Thoughts that GOD leaving me, thoughts that I like the bad guy, and thoughts that are worse than anything that I have ever thought of before. I realize that I am asking for reassurance, but I am so scared that I mean these thoughts and I just want GOD to keep me and my family safe and know that I don’t mean these thoughts… please help

Anonymous

Date posted: 13w

Religious OCD

I need help everyone. My thoughts have been getting worse… I haven’t used my ERP because it feels too scary and too real and so I am caught in this spiral of doing compulsions with every other thought that I have. I have thoughts about that bad guy that are so horrible and then I think that the bad guy is talking to me so I do compulsions and desperately want GOD to believe me when I say I don’t mean the thoughts, but then it creates doubt about whether or not I actually do mean the thoughts. And now I am afraid of my own thoughts This makes me want to fix ALL of the thoughts and feelings that I have to prove even more to myself and to GOD that I don’t mean these thoughts. On top of all of this, I am trying to convince myself that it’s OCD and not me at all. Does anyone have this and can anyone help? I am so tired and scared and burnt out…

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