My religion ocd is so terrifying. I’m Catholic, and I get thoughts that I’m going to hell constantly It’s so exhausting and it scares me so much when my brain tells me I’m going straight to hell and that I’m a horrible person, and it makes me believe it

I used to deal with a lot of religious OCD as a kid, since I’m also Catholic, and of course, being lgbt doesn’t help with that kind of OCD either (even if I don’t believe homosexuality is wrong in any way, it still kinda gets to you after hearing it from others). I promise it’ll get better. God loves and forgives, and as long as you go through life doing your best to be a good person, I’m sure you’ll get to Heaven. ❤️❤️

Thanks.

I had a very intense fear of hell. I had to do a lot of searching. You are in your own hell right now. God doesn’t want his children in pain. You should feel love. Hell is a farce. That’s where I ended up. Maybe it’s not where you end up, but you should feel god’s love, not his anger at all times. That is not the point.

I know this is an old thread but I have had terrible scrupulosity surrounding hell. I have been doing a lot of reassurance seeking (compulsive; bad, I know) and have learned a lot about the origins of the Christian doctrine of hell. This is not a forum for theological debate but I just wanted to note that actually @katiekat, many of the very early church fathers and mothers (ie, gregory of nyssa, Origen) did not believe in hell (or believed that even if souls were separated from God for a time, that God would reconcile them in the end) and they were very much Christians; in fact, they shaped the way we understand our faith now. So yes, one can be a Christian and believe there is no hell. @caitlin12, Father Richard Rohr’s work has been very very helpful to me. As long as you don’t seek it out for reassurance to assuage the obsessions, his “Hell, no!” lecture was life changing and life giving for me. You can find it on YouTube.