New Christian and OCD

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!

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

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

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.

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🙏🏽

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!