Anyone here with religious ocd?

Thank you! ?

thanks it is so peaceful

Yes! Me too! I get basically the same thoughts. God help us all.

@NickD I don’t know if you also get this but lately it’s been getting me in the angle where it’s like making me feel like I’m not close to God or that I don’t actually wan to be a Christian anymore which is NOT true

@Evelyn4416 That happens to me too, like being in church (or, watching church from my couch!) makes me anxious, so then I feel like I’m really missing out on that time to connect with God, which is what I usually felt I could do during church.

@Yayfortherapy Can you please tell me more about the anxious feeling? I am trying to know more about myself and some of what you guys said applies or applied to me before, so please tell me more if you are ok with it

@Bisho Well I get anxious sometimes in church, for example if we are singing a song, and I think the song is boring, I get anxious because I think that means that I must not love God. So I start to feel panic and fear. I’m sorry that you’re also going through this! I know OCD attacks our religion because religion requires faith and trust, and OCD likes to attack things that require faith and trust!

@Yayfortherapy Thank you for telling me Now I am in a situation where I felt what you are experiencjng before, but for some reason it is not what I am feeling about Its like as if I was over sensitive about it and now I am not even thinking about it, I really dont know how to explain this I think OCD attacks what is important to us?

@Bisho Yeah, sometimes OCD just leaves certain subjects alone. I’m glad that you aren’t having OCD about your religion as much now! It does attack things that are important to us. Like I care a lot about kids, so I have OCD that I might hurt a kid. And I love my husband, so I have OCD that I might do something bad for our marriage.

Yeah that’s true. Sometimes I feel guilty for have OCD about this, like I’m doing something wrong against God for having the OCD. But I know that’s not how Jesus sees us!

I am also Muslim and having these thoughts ?

@nunu I dont know how to help, but one of the things is “God knows what we are going through, He created us after all” Lets do our best looking for cure

@Bisho @bisho are you taking any cure of it

@nunu Well, no actually, I am good now I remember my mom took me to the dr to check on my vitamine B6 level, it was low and she asked the dr to give me some B-complex to raise it up I took them but before I completed a month or two, I stopped taking it because I started feeling that my heart bumping was weird and there was something off Anyways, I think that I became better by time and my compulsions reduced so much Now I am much better and I feel that my beliefs are true. I think that it was just a crossing state that I was in because I didn’t actually know much back then. But I eventually got better and now that I confirmed my beliefs (there is more into this but I won’t talk about it) and now, thanks God, I am focusing on getting better at practice and knowledge seeking. I am not the best at this probably but I am in it ^__^ Sooo nope, I did not go to any therapist back then since my mom stopped reassuring me, my compulsions were probably praying my prayer despite the thoughts, and people I found on internet who talked about it were saying things like “God knows you and that you do not mean this, He is All-Knowing”, and lthese thoughts are from satan to misguide people who are trying to get closer to God, so do not obey what he is saying or trying to achieve” I heard a story from a Shiekh that his friend once had scrupulosity and by time he was spending more and more time performing ablution (performing purification) So he asked him to go with him and their friends to the desert (think of it as going camping to the woods) and there, he told him to ablute and wash everything once instead of three times, since once is an obligatory and twice or three times are voluntary, and they are better since the three times is the ablution of the prophets So thats it, and his friend became better and his OCD had gone in terms of ablution ^__^ So there is a solution Have you heard of the hadiths (prophetic sayings) about scrupulosity? It helps to know that you, hating these thoughts, is a proof that you are a believer The hadith talking about this was a great relief for me, so check them out if you didn’t Sorry that I talk too much and if that made you bored, but I wish this had helped May Allah help us all and guide us

@Bisho thank you this help me a lot no you are not boring me I am happy some Muslim is here who can understand me my thoughts are so terrible regarding Allah his prophets and his ahle bait I don't want to do but cannot find any help I love them all I does not want to go in hell fear of hell disturb me a lot I cannot sleep in night due to it thinking of azaab and grave and many things sorry i am telling you but I am so much in pain hope you will understand it your line that of we are worry on something it means we are not doing this is so peaceful and heart courage statement thank you for it can

@nunu something I think that Allah and all his beloved ahle bait are not with me they have left me this is so painful I want to spend a normal life like other Muslims but cannot ???

@nunu Allah never leaves a human like that, whether we feel or not, He listens to us and knows what we go through, Allah is so merciful That line I said is from a hadith but I do not memorize it well Just do not leave your prayer that is one things that satan is trying to get you hopeless for Everyone gets these ideas, I still remember some idea that bothered me the most, but now I know that it is not true and I am not even noticing it much or think about it much, I think that you said they bothere you is okay But the ideas itself do not tell them to anybody, thats what I read about it Now follow the erp method and the advices given by specialists about ocd, I followed some erp method too I said to myself that they say if you thought about it by yourself and exposed yourself to the idea on purpose, it would help you heal so I remember sitting there and thinking of the thought on purpose I also tries the “ablute once” instead of three times as a method to recover from taking so long to ablute Oh I just remember what I was like and I am laughing at it now, thanks God You can do it as well Inshallah, just trust Allah, do what you can in erp and pray that Allah help you If you can, try to recite surat Al-nas in your morning and evening prayers and before sleep Reading surat Al-kafiroon before sleep and mu’awizat (the three Qul), I think those might help you by the will of Allah If you can, read surat Al-mulk, it is beautiful but I was used to cry when I read it before :) I still did not figure out how to react actually, I have some weird problem in this I dont know how to describe ?? Anyways, I used to LOVE reading some parts of it tho, the second page of it So Idk, do not put pressure on yourself that is more than what you are cappable of And remmeber, Allah do not burden a soul with more than it is capable of, so be sure that you can get through this I really hope that what I said would help others from christianity and other faiths too, I do not want to make it harder on them as well

@nunu I do not know what you mean by that Allah and all his beloved ahle bait are not with you, because Allah is with you and He is the only one who can help you, not ahle bait, He is the one who help ahle bait I don’t know if you are from a different group, but I hope that Allah help us all and guide us all since we all need his guidance

@Bisho thank you I will try it myself I am not taking any cure or any specialists help just this app you send me very positive vibes thank you

@Bisho Ameen

@nunu You are welcome Take good care of your nutrition too, sometimes our brains work better with better sleep schedule and better nutrition, and it helps in the long way and in other things as well

@Bisho I hope Allah help me in this matter as I want to remain on right path