OCD will not defeat you!

Reminders: You are not your thoughts. Not all thoughts are yours. You are made in the image of God. You are valuable. OCD is not some lifelong disease (pure nonsense). You can defeat OCD-thinking. You can experience an organized and lucid mind. You are capable of hitting the reset button and starting new. You are capable of letting intrusive thoughts pass by. You have lots of tools at your disposal (ERP therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, prayer/faith, exercise, hobbies). You have people pulling for you. You are loved. You are capable of tolerating anxiety. You are capable of wondrous and great things. Life is an absolute gift and miraculous and amazing and you can see it that way again. Time to absolutely destroy OCD. Now. Today. Do exposures. Tolerate anxiety. Laugh at the thoughts. Dismiss them. Pray. Call on the name of Christ. Exercise. Eat well. Build things. You've had enough of anxiety, depression, panic, dread, confusion, de-personalization, apathy, falsehood, lethargy. It is time for lucidity, organization, love, joy, peace, gratitude, motivation, faith, goodness, hope, clarity, truth. Each moment is an opportunity to reset and start fresh. You can absolutely destroy OCD thinking!

Wolfram

Date posted: 29d

Well said

Estrid

Date posted: 29d

I agree with all above - except one thing: I am not my thoughts, right, but my thoughts are my thoughts, but I don't need to give every thought a response.

JB1020

Date posted: 22d

Hi Estrid - I totally understand and respect your view. I am a born-again Christian and hold strong views about the spiritual world based on my faith and based on experiences I have had. The Christian faith has always said that we are tempted by the devil / demons, and they are capable of influencing our thoughts and sending us intrusive thoughts. The most enlightened people on the planet are Christian saints, and they have detailed for 2,000 years the spiritual warfare that takes place in the thought life, and every one of them would agree about this. The lives of the saints are incredible, I highly recommend reading about the Orthodox Christian saints. For me, I am positive that not all thoughts in our life are our own. This makes OCD recovery so much easier, because awful and disgusting intrusive thoughts may not be ours at all, which would explain why we hate them so much. I understand this is a minority view and respect your views. God bless!

Estrid

Date posted: 21d

@JB1020 Thank you for your response! I get you. And I am glad that this helps you in your recovery process. Long time ago I think I made a too much black- white interpretation of this and I felt like more powerless if the thoughts weren't mine even if that's not true either. I now think about my identity in Christ and my ownership to my thoughts which means that I have to chose which thoughts I will keep and which to let go. I am responsible in that way - because at the end of the day it's my brain, my thoughts. Our thoughts are absolutely influnced by different kind of darkness. I am also a born-again Christian and we read a lot from the Orthodox tradition in our home. I don't know if this makes sense... God bless😊

JB1020

Date posted: 15d

@Estrid Thanks for explaining. It makes sense. We have a lot of overlapping views, and some different ones. God bless you on your journey and walk with Christ!

Estrid

Date posted: 14d

@JB1020 Thanks😊 The same to you!

MS2003

Date posted: 29d

Needed this today, tysm and God bless you 🙏

Anonymous

Date posted: 16d

Needed this. Thank you so much ♥️♥️

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