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Just remember God loves you so so much. Ocd loves to take away things you love. The ultimate bully. Talk back to ocd when it tries to put those thoughts in y our head. Yell at it, even swear at it! Remember God is your peaceful place, full of peace and love. You never need to worry 1 second about anything else. You are His child. Anything thing that sounds like doubts, worries, lies... is ocd. Train your brain to separate the 2. My son went through this. Erp helped him alot. Now he has his faith back and is getting sp good at talking back to ocd. That helped him a ton! Also it helped him to make sure he wasn't turning his faith into actions. F I r example l, he had to pray before every meal, every snack, even eating a potato chip!! He can laugh at that now. But we banned all prayers before meals for a while. Shake up when you pray. And shake up what you say. Make prayer like talking to a friend nit a rehearsed thing. He would also pray for everyone he knows- that turned into a really long list that went on a long time. Now we only p ray for a couole people at a time. Ocd can use it tricks to do things like that. Keep talking back, be watchful for when something starts to feel like ocd and not genuine faith. God is with you through this and remember he is light and love and should be what brings a smile to your face - if it is bringing you those bad thoughts - do the opposite and talk back. If it is too hard to do erp, meds can help some people. You are so brave for going back to your faith and dont let ocd take your faith or anything else yoi love. Another example that is less complicated is karate. Ocd tortured my son into nit going to Karate ir all this horrible stuff would happen. long story and hard story short, he had to make himself go - sobbing he went. Little by little by little he is now fully back at it! But if he had avoided it, he would have missed out on one if his favorite things to do. Im so sorry that you and my son have to go through ocd. I saw another person on a ocd group im in - and they did such small steps as walking around church on Sundays without even going in. And now they are back to attending services. Whether is be food, school, relationships, or faith... do erp (meds may help) and learn to spot its tactics. Its a literal fight to take back. It'll pay off in the end. Hope that helps!
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Thank you so much I really needed to hear this i appreciate your insight and your advice. I'm sorry for what your son has gone through, OCD can be such a debilitating disease.
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I’m a Christian and have OCD. I have no advice other than a hopeful encouragement to say there are those of us out there. U aren’t alone. Best of luck to u
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You too ❤️
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I want you to know that God doesn’t hold it against you and we’re happy to have you back in faith. I’m not currently experiencing this subtype but I hope you get better
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Thank you :)
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My son also has skin picking! That is a tough one. I've heard for girls- fake nails helps a lot as a barrier. For my son, bandaid and fidgets everywhere and goals. Also having goals but don't get mad at yourself as that will cause more picking. Celebrate wins though!! Skin picking is often an anxiety thing. In his case keeping really short nails. (Acrylic are thick and hard to ouck with but if you dont do that then very short nails). Asking someone to gently remind you. Im part of a skin picking facebook page too. Lots of healing tools on hand. Barri ersxand lots of fingers - they call it competing responses cab help.
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God is a forgiving God and wants you to rest in him. When I feel overwhelmed I like to imagine I’m resting in his arms like I’m a child again. OCD is just another trick of the adversary. Prayers for you🙏🏽
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I've been through this too. Currently in therapy for skin picking too. What helped me with religious ocd is remembering God is our Father. He says it many times! In the parable of the prodigal son he sees his son from a long way off and goes running to him. He is so happy you are back to him and he is overjoyed! And nothing can snatch you out of his hand. Not even OCD blasphemous thoughts!
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Welcome home, that’s awesome!!! I’ve come to understand ERP to be like accepting Gods grace. It’s kind of a statement that I don’t have to be in control and there’s nothing I can do to earn salvation or make things right. OCD rituals are kind of like works, using everything in our power to control and make the world feel right to us. We don’t have to try so hard, bc His grace is enough. There’s no ritual that will make that more or less true. Another thing I’ve seen helpful for myself or others who’ve dealt with religious scrupulosity is to shift away from rational, logical practices in the faith to experiential practices. These might include things like various forms of worship, meditation, using imagination, spontaneous spiritual activities etc. The Western church tends to emphasize the rational heavily over the experiential. The monastic tradition has some really wonderful ways to engage with our faith experientially. I hope something in here was helpful to you. Different things and angles work for different people, it’ll take time to figure out what those are for you 🙂 and in that process just know you’re not alone and have plenty of support!
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I used to have religious OCD. Still kinda do. Accidentally thought something bad about God once, panicked thought something bad about the Holy Spirit. Fell into doom. This was recently after recomitting myself to Christ. Since then I pretty much gave up. Unfortunately, it also led to me compromising my morals many times because I figured I was going to hell anyway. I wish I knew what OCD was then. I think it would have saved me a lot of pain. I no longer have a relationship with God, and fear I never will again.
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Please help anyone else here with Religious ocd and is a Christian? My brain is going hay-wire and want to know I'm not alone... what do your thoughts say and how do you overcome compulsions? Im going through a rough moment and feel sick with anxiety and stiff. I want to obey God but my thoughts won't stop. I surrender to the Lord and then I have peace with the compulsions and they go away but the thoughts are the scary part please - is this spiritual or is it mental? Or is it both? Would love to hear a Christians opinion on this... because my thoughts latch on and won't dissappear but I know that the Bible commands us to take control of our thoughts and to renew our minds...yet God has grace for this and mercy for our every need... I know God is in control (completely) and my mind creates a lot of the issues for me without any spiritual stuff (it's a very powerful thing) but it's still scary. Lord help me, I surrender myself to you Jesus, counsel my soul and help me.
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So about 2 years ago I gave my life to Jesus. I've always been a "Christian" but never truly lived liked one. Honestly never truly felt love for them until 2 years ago. It was the best couple months of my life!!! I felt so happy and loved and unstoppable! I thought this fire for God & Jesus will never burn out. One day I had a thought about is God real? It bothered me so bad and I went into a massive spiral. Doubting everything. My faith. if I was good enough. Am I really saved? Do I have enough faith? Is my doubt real? Is it too much? Have these blasphemous made God not want me anymore? Or Jesus? :( But I knew I was and that they were real! I know I've heard them. Then I started having horrible blasphemous thoughts but then it would go back to doubting thoughts then back to the blasphemous ones. I hated the thoughts and doubts. The thoughts are so mean towards God, Jesus & HS. It’s anywhere from evil thoughts to cussing thoughts to rejection thoughts/denying. Demonic thoughts. Literally anything bad you could think of! Even thoughts of if I really love them or wanna follow them. I learned about OCD from what I've looked up but I've been dealing with this for about 2 years now. It's hard. I doubt if it’s OCD. Definitely feel like I'm trapped or my faith isn't the same. Which makes me sad because I want my faith! I feel like I've gotten lazy and honestly that I don't deserve them or am "too far gone" from them. I feel like idk how to be a Christian or how to have faith or just exist tbh. I wanna love God & Jesus! I want faith! I just feel kinda stuck. Has anyone gone through this or has advice or tips?
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