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Omg I get intrusive thoughts like that too. I’m 13 rn but I’m too scared to tell my parents because my ocd didn’t get a lot worse until December. My parents won’t understand it. Did you do therapy?
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How did you overcome that? Would you please like to guide or explain?
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I am not suffering from OCD but the person I loved the most is suffering since last 13 years and he told me now and I just want to know how I can help him to overcome this
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@shanza Ali Yes, with much pleasure ?. As long a journey from age 12 to 21 with this disorder, something that helped me (which what my therapist told me) was to think of intrusive thoughts as “tics”. The point of this is that, tics are just things that are there but they have no meaning. So every time a “weird” thought came in (for example, let’s say an insane intrusive thought of the devil slapping you in the butt; I know it’s weird but that’s the crazy reality of our intrusive thoughts), you have to know that it’s meaningless. It doesn’t mean anything even though it’s there....like a tic. So I applied that concept and I felt much better. Also, KNOWING that you didn’t put the thought of “God is stupid” in your own head on purpose really helps you believe that intrusive thoughts is not your own doing but rather the doing of something wrong with your brain. Not your soul, but rather the fault of your brain. It takes practice day by day to distract yourself into normal thinking.
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@cgislander Hey there! I did get therapy BUT it wasn’t until I was 18, unfortunately. And wow, you are very young! Yes, very likely, parents will not understand it at first. But I personally believe it’s very important to open up to them at some point! My parents were able to understand my disorder more after a long journey. They were sad and in denial about it because they didn’t want their children to have such an illness (as I don’t either!) But they were supportive! What meant a lot was that they understand mental disorders are just as real as cancer. People like you need all the support you can get! I went to my first therapy session with my mom?
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Hi, I’m new to the app as of today. I’m 20 years old, and wanted to get some stuff off my chest about the types of OCD I’ve been experiencing over the years. I’m not entirely sure how or when my OCD was brought up, but I’ve been a perfectionist for as long as I can remember. Anywhere and everywhere I go, if I see things placed in an order/angle that my brain doesn’t approve of, next thing I know I’m “fixing” it to be in the placement I feel looks better. I’m not aware of why I feel the need to do that, but until an object is in the “right” placement, I won’t take my eyes off of it. My eye will even twitch. Another form of OCD I have is in relationships. I spend each day overthinking and over-analyzing every one of the relationships that are important to me. Friends, family, significant other. Another one is what’s considered “Pure OCD” . When I get an intrusive thought of something devilish, whether it’s randomly seeing my great aunt naked bc my grandma considers her “fat” even though she’s not, or it’s seeing something demonic and traumatizing, I immediately tell myself, “I don’t wanna see/think about that” over and over and over until the thought is gone. Or I’ll try to replace one mental image with another. One other form of OCD I face every day, is religion. I got baptized for the first time in my life earlier this year in January. I had finally started to repent for my sins, and now I’m constantly feeling afraid that I’m letting God down due to my depression/lack of motivation and vaping/smoking. I also fear excessively that He’ll banish me from His kingdom, or just turn a cold shoulder. I know that what I’ve just typed up is probably all over the place. That is my brain unfortunately. How do you go from being a mentally disorderly and seemingly erratic young woman, to a more well-established, successful woman? I’m all ears!
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Please help anyone else here with Religious ocd and is a Christian? My brain is going hay-wire and want to know I'm not alone... what do your thoughts say and how do you overcome compulsions? Im going through a rough moment and feel sick with anxiety and stiff. I want to obey God but my thoughts won't stop. I surrender to the Lord and then I have peace with the compulsions and they go away but the thoughts are the scary part please - is this spiritual or is it mental? Or is it both? Would love to hear a Christians opinion on this... because my thoughts latch on and won't dissappear but I know that the Bible commands us to take control of our thoughts and to renew our minds...yet God has grace for this and mercy for our every need... I know God is in control (completely) and my mind creates a lot of the issues for me without any spiritual stuff (it's a very powerful thing) but it's still scary. Lord help me, I surrender myself to you Jesus, counsel my soul and help me.
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Can you share a time you’ve seen God use your story with ocd for good? I don’t mean your experience with it was good in itself, but has there been times your life story has helped others open up, you’ve learned something about God’s grace in the process, or something like that? It’s one of the hardest parts of my own story, but there have also been so many times I’ve seen good come out of the hard stuff. I just would love to connect with others who have also seen this!
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