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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 4y
Remember God is Love. Our body-brain, I believe reacts in healing to love. So if we get too much into judgment like a panic against something- our minds also react. We are meant to be balanced. So I’m working on not giving into fear really. But more faith. Being more aware of when I’m having thoughts of fear. It works as an enemy. We have to forgive ourselves. & then we are a bit released. Try forgiving those thoughts gently. Self love. Not like a strong repentance- there is times for that w/god .. but try forgiving perfection... which is us trying to be God.
Wow that’s really tough. I relate . But my experience s not with religion.. God is amazing though. So I know he will not let you down... the thing that has helped me through this has been God. Anonymous the thing about ocd is it doubts what yr true value is. So if you say I want to live for Jesus & yr mind says u don’t. And that is distressing- then it means God is very valuable to you. It’s like someone who knows what’s important to you that keeps poking at u because it knows this is important. I tried looking into childhood foundation it helped to understand inner uncertainty too..
That makes a lot of sense. I keep trying to just remind myself that Jesus understands and that has helped a lot
Yep, god bless.. Thoughts & the brain are some thing else. That is good to remind yrself that Jesus understands- sometimes I think ocd has a lot to do with Love. The more u are patient & forgive. The better we are. Even science backs this up.
My theme literally started BECAUSE it was SO contrary to what’s right. Yes I’m a Christian.
I suffer from that also
It’s not going to happen- the definition of ocd is going against yr values. But remember those are yr values. So it is just a lie that u will. It is a disease of the brain - the brain gets used to being shocked. Tell yrself the opposite that it will be fine if that happens & see if yr brain doesn’t stop scaring you. just remember God has given us a sound mind not a spirit of Fear. God bless
Your self talk low and gentle it’s alright/ this isn’t real, just mechanical thoughts & feelings clearing...
I’m alright god loves me. I respect myself
I forgot to reply to this thread the other day but I'm really struggling with this rn. If anyone wants to talk about it, I would love too ❤
My huddle rn. I’m struggling with this also
@Overcomer It's so hard. I just want to live my life for Jesus but my mind says I don't 🙁 it freaks me out :(
@Anyonomous I also was on fire for Jesus before this whole ocd thing. Idk what’s going on. The mind a battle field but keep moving forward with the faith given to us. May God helps us.
@Overcomer Also how do you keep hope alive in this.
@Overcomer Idk I just try to remember that my hope is ultimately in Jesus even if my OCD tries to convince me i don't believe that. Also try to remember that Jesus understands. He understands OCD.
Every single time me and my boyfriend do anything sexual, I feel really really guilty about it after. We’ve never had sex before but have done other things and I don’t feel guilty about it in the moment, but afterwards I feel guilty. I don’t necessarily regret doing it but I just feel horrible as a human. He does not push himself on me in anyway and I know it’s all a me thing. He is very cautious in making sure I’m comfortable and feel okay, but I don’t start feeling guilty until afterwards. I feel like this always relates back to my faith, which has recently fallen off. I feel like I can’t talk to anyone about this because I always get told the benefits of waiting for marriage. And honestly I do understand that, but I don’t know that I want to wait. I feel like people keep shoving “waiting for marriage” down my throat and it draws me so much further from Christianity and makes things so much harder to feel close to God again. I just feel so lonely in feeling these things and scared I’m going to hell if I keep doing stuff with my boyfriend, but I genuinely don’t know what I believe in anymore and it’s draining me that my values are changing. I know it’s probably healthy and natural for values to change as you grow up, but I feel like there’s a stereotype of Christianity I have to adhere to and it makes me so anxious and scared I’m going to hell if I don’t get everything perfect. My relationship with Christ isn’t something that I involve others in because of how personal it is to me. But I just feel shamed upon by every other Christian and it makes me scared for myself and sad for the way society is making it such a black and white view of this religion.
I’m a Christian and I’m in my first relationship, often feeling guilty/uncomfortable with various things in relation to sexual purity. I’m struggling to know when things are OCD or genuine conviction. Any advice on how to know?
I have religious OCD and the thoughts have been becoming really bad. I’ve been hitting myself punching myself screaming quietly if that makes sense pulling my hair out talking to myself nonstop. I can’t even hang out with my family without doing these things or going to another room to do these things, these thoughts of overtaking my life I will always be Christian God is most important to me and I’m so scared because these thoughts are terrible. They’re disgusting they never ending. There’s always something going on in my mind. I don’t understand. I’m scared. I’m turning into a bad person. I don’t wanna dishonor the Lord God, I don’t know if this is just OCD or something else.
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