- Date posted
- 5y
- Date posted
- 5y
I totally understand this. It’s so hard to let go of my past sins and mistakes. Jesus died for your sins, that means He is a God of second chances. Try and take comfort in that. And just know that whatever you did, someone else has done it too and they’ve recovered from it fine. Your past mistakes don’t define you and you are so loved by God!
- Date posted
- 5y
Thank you so much 🥺 God bless you
- Date posted
- 5y
@Staystrong❤ Try reading some Bible verses about forgiveness and really meditate on them! Also something that always hits is me is this quote, “What drop of Jesus blood wasn’t enough to cover your sin?” Always blows my mind and helps me feel better!
- Date posted
- 5y
@MV01 I've tried reading scripture and listening to music and praying but for some reason I can't shake it. But that is very helpful and I thank you so much for your advice
- Date posted
- 5y
I also think maybe it's the enemy trying to get in my head too telling me I could never be forgiven
- Date posted
- 5y
do some shadow work. uncover what it is and why you feel this way
- Date posted
- 5y
@Solomon I've never heard of it before but maybe I could try that. Thank you
- Date posted
- 5y
I have struggled with this too. I feel immense guilt for past mistakes and feel like I dont deserve a future or that I will make different mistakes so why try. I am trying to realize that when Jesus said "it is finished" He really meant it. He didn't say "it is finished but lets mentally review and feel guilty for our past actions awhile first" The Bible says the enemy seeks to kill and destroy but Jesus came to give us life to the fullest!
- Date posted
- 5y
You do deserve a future. Everyone does. I just hope that whatever mistake it is, no matter how bad it may be, it can be forgiven. You are so right Jesus already paid the price for our mistakes so that we could live life abundantly. I know for a fact I would never make that mistake again and I would never be the person I once was. You are not alone. We can all get through this 🥺
- Date posted
- 5y
OCD causes you to overthink, over analyze and obsess a lot. Especially on bad things. It can defenitly be your OCD making it worse
- Date posted
- 5y
Very very true. Thank you
- Date posted
- 5y
I’m not religious but I’ve made many many bad bad choices and definitely feel as though im not worth loving or feel as though I need to share every bad thing I’ve done or I’m a liar... unfortunately and fortunately not everyone feels this way and is able to keep their mistakes to themselves the fact that you feel remorse shows you are a good person and care. Has your mistake helped shape you into a better person? Try looking at it as a devils advocate. We were all made in his image perfectly imperfect right??
- Date posted
- 5y
As long as you want to be forgiven and ask for forgiveness, God will forgive you. God is love and he loves you. He knows you made a mistake and your recognized it. I think you should let it go and give it to God to handle for you now.
- Date posted
- 5y
I do with all my heart. Thank you and God bless you 🙏🏻💙
- Date posted
- 5y
I feel like that too. I feel like I need constant reassurance all the time. I feel like I drive my parents crazy. They even said that I've done nothing wrong but I feel like the worst person in the world. I feel so much remorse. I believe that it has shapped me into a better person and my views are much different but I still hate myself for it.
Related posts
- Date posted
- 23w
I would really appreciate it so much if someone took the time to read this and help me. I don’t know what to do anymore. I haven’t posted here in awhile. I had my OCD managed pretty decently for a year or so on medication, but I had to stop taking it, and after around 3-4 months, the OCD has become unbearable again. It used to be much more surrounding existential themes, eating, and others, not really real event/false memory stuff. But now it’s gotten really out of hand and I don’t know how to do it anymore. It’s surrounding a time of my life a long time ago. It was a dark time. I wasn’t myself and I was going through a lot of things, and I did a lot of things I regret. I self-destructed, embarrassed myself, and wasn’t good to the people around me. I was able to get my mind off of it for a long time, even though I would still think about it a good amount. I was able to be in the present, at least moreso than now. But now that I’m off medication, the guilt has become my obsession again. I can’t move on. I can’t do anything without thinking about all of these memories. I’m obsessed. I’ve started hating myself again, so much so that it’s hard to do anything anymore or believe I deserve anything good. The people around me tell me it wasn’t even that bad, but to me it was. To me, I failed myself, lost myself, and failed everyone around me. I can’t stop thinking about every person I said something wrong to or every time I screwed up. I’ve now started to convince myself I did terrible things I can’t remember, and that my mind just can’t deal with it. And that’s why I feel so guilty. There’s nothing to really support this though. But I’m starting to really convince myself that’s true. I’m trying not to listen to it, because I’ve convinced myself I have hit people with my car before and haven’t remembered when I absolutely didn’t and I know I never have. I drive back over and over to check there’s no one, even though I never heard any bang or felt myself anything. I can convince myself of some crazy false memories. So I know that I shouldn’t listen. But it’s hard not to when I have this guilt gnawing at me constantly. I come to conclusions that this guilt must be because I did something terrible that I don’t remember, even though I already think the things I remember were bad enough. But I would know by now right? If I did something bad I don’t remember? I don’t feel like this all the time. But it’s a lot of the time. But maybe that should be reassuring, that I only start obsessing like this when I think to. The past haunts me though. And I can never be in the present. I’ve started to resort to some unhealthy behaviors to distract myself or help me work towards something. I am starting to hate myself so much and feel like there’s no way I’ll ever be able to get out of this loop. I feel like I just can’t do this anymore. Maybe I need to go back on medication. But I don’t know. I don’t really want to. But will I ever fix this without it? Why do I feel SO guilty, all of the time? I do all these things for people because I feel indebted to them, because I feel undeserving of everything. I feel awful about myself. I don’t know what to do. Does anyone else deal with this?
- Date posted
- 18w
I’m a Christian with religious OCD something I’ve always wondered as a Christian is why did God send Jesus to die on the cross why didn’t God die on the cross? Every time I think about that, my OCD calls God a bad word. even as I’m typing this, my mind is calling that bad word I don’t mean it and I don’t understand it. I know I would never say that last night when I had that thought I felt so sick. I ran to the bathroom because I thought I was going to throw up. it’s terrible and something that is not true, I’m sure you guys can figure it out it starts with a p. I don’t wanna kill myself, but I feel like that’s the only option (edited)
- Date posted
- 17w
So, alot has changed. I'm Christian and currently believe we are in the end of times. It's changed my whole perspective on life. I quit my job and moved back in with family, starting to go to church, apologized to those I hurt except, one person who I talked to two family members and they told me to delete the message and with my other apology ( that i also believed was God telling me to confess in 2020) i lied at some parts because of shame and confusing myself most likely intentionally. I confessed everything to my dad and he says since i turned from it, repented, that i need to let it go and continue forward. Since then, my minds been saying that I'm outside of God's will and everything's gone down hill. I had also prayed that God exposed me and now it's like all this evil and wickedness that feels like it's coming out of my heart settles into my chest. I've prayed to God, worshipped to God, but thoughts and images of being sent to hell or my loved ones pops into my head and I've gone to sleep twice each night accepting the fact that because of me not doing so may have doomed me and my loved ones and I feel scared that I got so tired and stopped fighting it. I've had ocd since I was 7 but it just is so scary because it's hitting down to the wire and I'm scared that I was never a child of God at all I mean I have iniquity I thought I repented for but people I love still struggle with what I've done and I prayed for them and tried to help them and suggest therapy but I haven't did what I could to make it right like I should've. But these images and thoughts they're horrible. I feel like I'm against God truly and I'm like Lord change the circumstances and I won't resist so that I can preach Your word and everyday I feel like I'm gambling. It's like every thought is biblical for the most part. I don't want to kill myself cuz what if I have a chance that God will have mercy on me but....
Be a part of the largest OCD Community
Share your thoughts so the Community can respond