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Keep practicing your ERP. I know exactly how you feel. I’ve been doing ERP since June with an NOCD therapist and I hit “rock bottom.” However, I can see now that that is what my brain needed: a hard reset so to speak. Keep at it. You can rewire your brain and this is coming from someone who has had OCD since childhood and I am 42!
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Thank you for your response! I'm trying my best to remain hopeful but OCD loves to be front and center.
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Well, the goal of ERP is to expose yourself to your fears without doing compulsions. In your case, you have to expose yourself and not give in to saying your prayers. I highly recommend looking for a therapist to help you. If you cannot get to a therapist, try reading Jonathan Grayson’s book, Freedom From OCD. He gives a lot of great examples on how to do ERP on your own.
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Hi, I’m kind of curious about erp. Can u tell me more about it? What do u do? I have religious ocd and I don’t want to pray anymore. However I also have this promblem of promising god random things and I just want to pray anymore to take it back.
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What happens if you know that u have ocd and u stop with prayers but u intentionally promised god something and u got to take it back? I been trying to pray but I kept redoing them
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I understand where you coming from. I am Catholic and I believe that God that truly see what is in our hearts. I think it is in your best interest to try and cut down on your praying. To me, it sounds like a compulsion and it is only fueling your OCD. You have to choose to take the risk of not knowing whether God will be angry with you or not.
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- 25w
I’ve noticed that I’m somewhat happier also ignoring my thoughts than I am instead of doing compulsions (I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired atp) but I’ve heard you’re technically supposed to do erp rather than pushing under the rug. But idk if I have a thought I just refuse to think about it again and im fine even if I want to do compulsions
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I cannot for the life of me stop ruminating or checking how I feel about thoughts or focusing on thoughts or creating more thoughts. I feel like I’m losing my mind. I want to scream. I try not to ruminate about the thoughts, but trying not to just makes me think about them more. I try not to check, but somehow, I still check. I want to let a thought sit in the background, but the more I try not to focus on it, the more I end up focusing on it. I don’t want the thought to expand because that feels like engaging with it, but I can’t just stop it from expanding. It feels impossible. People keep saying I’m in control of my compulsions, and maybe that’s true for the physical ones. But when it comes to the mental compulsions, I swear I have no control. It feels like I’m missing something that everyone else seems to have, like there’s some tool they’re using that I don’t have. Controlling mental compulsions has never felt possible for me. I’m starting to fear them. And every time someone says I’m in control and can just choose not to do them, I end up beating myself up even more when they happen. Or when I *choose* I guess. I don’t know anymore. If this is my fault, if I’m responsible for this, then what does that make me? I feel like a monster. I am at my wits’ end. How am I supposed to control mental compulsions when it feels like they control me? I freak out when they happen. They don’t bring me relief, they just make me panic. I want it to stop so bad.
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- 7w
Does anyone ever feel like you know you have OCD, but at the same time you think it might actually be you connecting to a higher consciousness or vibration that is trying to control your decisions so that the outcome does not turn out bad kind of like the butterfly effect. It drives me crazy because I know I’m conscious that it’s OCD but at the same time I overthink and feel like it might be a higher power trying to warn me that I’m not doing something right, like example; if I flip the trash can lid a couple more times it’s going to pervert something bad from happening and that why I’m sensing I’m not doing it right, because if I spent a little more time there and if I would have left earlier the outcome would’ve been different. Or say I just fight through it and choose to ignore it, but then I’ll carry that negativity/worry of not feeling like I did it right and will project it out into existence because the thought won’t leave my head and in a way your seeking it out into existence since you keep thinking about it, kind of like an affirmation?
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