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That's how it started with me when ocd became too much to handle, seek therapy, you cant give away what you don't own. You belong to your Heavenly Father God, He made you He loves you He will never abandon you. Let not this be a form of reassurance but a truth to know, the thoughts won't go away by just doing reassurance, it takes time and understanding of how ocd works, therapy will help, spiritual guidance will help, you're not the only one who has those intrusive thoughts, don't worry, ocd will not defeat you, the Lord is bigger than our fears. God bless you, don't be afraid.
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What do you mean?
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like selling a soul
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I have religious OCD too, it’s bad. Constant anxiety that I can’t be forgiven for something and am going to hell. Fear is always looming. I try to remember “my grace is sufficient for you” and “whoever comes to me I will never drive away”. Part of faith is walking through and moving forward through uncertainty. We can never be 100% sure being mere humans, but I am confident that God is good and he is 100% loving and gracious and he calls us to be the same to others. I will pray for you and me and all those suffering from religious OCD. God, give us the strength to resist our compulsions and to know you are for us despite our feelings.
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I’ve been worried that I will go to hell and have lost a lot of my interests, personality and even music I like . I don’t know who I am anymore
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will i ever be free or is this all there is for the rest of my life
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I keep thinking about life and death and all that stuff and it’s making me so upset. I keep thinking about how one day im probably going to be old and on my death bed or something and my whole life will be nothing but a memory and im so scared for that day. i wont have my parents and my younger siblings wont have any of us. time feels like its moving too fast like i feel every second pass and think about how i can never get that moment back and i cant slow down time or go back or even just pause it because its always going and theres nothing i can do about it. And then i start thinking about whats after death and get even more scared because if heaven is real then what is eternity? wont i get bored of doing the same things… forever? and if its not real then what happens is it just nothing? because thats even more scary i don’t want to be nothing because that also means the people i love will be nothing and i wont be able to be with them. And if it’s not that then is it reincarnation? will i have to do this all over again? will the souls of the people i love be with me in their new forms? is the sun “God” because the planets revolve around it and the stars are all of the passed souls? what does it feel like to be a star? will i even just know i died? i have so many questions and the fact that none have an answer and i just have to wait to find out drives me insane. i try to remind myself everyone before me and everyone after me will experience death and loss at one point in their life and that I’m not alone but it doesn’t help. nothing helps. ive had “episodes” like this before when i was around 10-14 about once a year always around May-June which is the month my great grandmother died and June is my birth month which i hate because yk… time passing and aging which i assume is why i always get worse around that time. i was able to kind of ignore or turn it off the past like 3 years but this month its just too much i cant even deal with it. maybe because I’m turning 18? idk but its been bothering me so much and its all i can think about. Even when i seem fine the thoughts are always in there somewhere and some days they’re easier to ignore and others it feels impossible. I just wish I was like those people who can just turn their thoughts off if they don’t like them. My mom says she can do that if she thinks about how her mom died or something she can tell herself she doesn’t want to think about that and just… turn it off?? and thats so shocking to me because i’ve begged a god I don’t even know if I believe in to stop my thoughts and she can just turn them off herself? I don’t have another therapy appointment until next week I wish I could talk to them everyday so it could work faster but instead i’m on here. So if anyone has any advice PLEASE give it to me. I’m so tired it’s making me not enjoy anything in life because it makes me feel like theres no point in anything but I want to feel normal and I want to enjoy things. Sorry for writing so much just had to get this out there. Also i’m not trying to seek reassurance btw I just wanna know how other people coped with this or similar issues😭
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