I've made my decisions irrevocable

@Emily🦋 You can do it!!!!! Just take a step

@alex0523 I totally understand. I know how painful this is. You have to practice little baby steps at a time. It's okay if you fail and do the compulsions. (The compulsion is the checking.) You only need to move forward millimeters every day. This is still moving forward on your journey!! Just practice little steps. Start with an easy compulsion. Try to stop doing it or delay it for five minutes. Just little steps :):)

@Tea and Honey You have to take the RISK that nothing bad will actually happen. It's scary, but you have to do it!

@Tea and Honey I am making a huge decision right now to potentially leave my job for a new one that is a huge step and I’m convinced I will fail miserably if I go 😩

@OCDMM Does everyone else around you encourage to take the new job? Is it an objectively better job than your old one?

@Tea and Honey Yes, everyone is encouraging me to take it. It’s more money, a better title, but a big step up for me in responsibility. I heard a voice tell me to not fly too close to the sun, meaning I may be too proud and going too high and I will fail. I don’t know if it was my OCD or God and I’m scared not to listen if it was God

@OCDMM Make a pro and con list . Leaving my old job last year was one the hardest things to do and I did it and it turned out to be the best decision for me we don’t get new job opportunities on accident trust the plan

@OCDMM Maybe it’s ur ocd and ur brain trying to scare u into thinking ur not deserving

@Tea and Honey Funny thing is sometimes I don’t act out on the compulsions then somthing minor happens and I tell myself u see I should of did it

@OCDMM I have spent years wondering if I am listening to God or to OCD. This is a very common struggle for people with OCD. It helped me when I started telling others that I had trouble discerning God's voice. (I talked with an elder.) I learned a lot. I have also learned that most of the time that I think that God is speaking, he is not. Maybe you have people you could talk to , and you could explain that you are having trouble discerning God's voice from the OCD. I struggle in the same way! OCD has its own voice--and it will tell me things like I will go to hell for hanging up a poster or for opening a freezer. I have learned to not listen to it.

@alex0523 Thank you! This is very helpful 😊

@Tea and Honey Thank you! Yeah, sometimes I am able to tell it’s not God for things like you said, it will tell me not to go to a restaurant because I will get sick and I ignore it and it’s fine because that one happens a lot. But sometimes it says something unexpected like this and it makes me wonder. Thank you for taking the time to reply, this is very helpful and although I hate that anyone else has to do with this, it is comforting to know that someone else understands my exact struggle. When I first realized I had OCD I thought I was the only one with my particular brand of OCD