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Hi dear beloved child of God, I feel your pain, I once was in your shoes, deep in confusion and anguish, living by the will of the intrusive thoughts and it cut me off from many moments and days I'll never get back, ocd didnt do anything good for me ever! Instead it wasted my time. One thing I have to say is take a good look at how much love you have for God that you don't want to offend Him nor displease Him. That is a beautiful thing to have...but...you have to change how you view God. A lot of us who suffer from ocd at some point view God as an angry tyrant and an intolerable judge that is out to condemn us, but the reality is that God is love. God is love! God is merciful! God is caring! God is your heavenly Father! Why would a loving father enjoy seeing His children be afraid of Him or living with anxiety? He doesn't. He's not asking you to do all these things nor making these deals that are not from your own will. John 3:16... For God so loved the world... You know we crucified Jesus right? We killed God...and yet he forgave us! He died to save us! That's love! God knows about our ocd why do you think you're on this app? He brought you here just as He brought me here to get the help we needed. Yes erp will help you recover and ocd therapy is heaven sent but you have to understand that ocd is not your friend and that your current view of God is wrong. He loves you just as you are, that is the good news. You can't accidentally sin that's another good news. God is love and His mercy is endless that's another good news! Don't despair don't give up have faith! Seek spiritual guidance through your church. I'm here to help don't hesitate to ask. God loves you
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Thank you so much for your kind and truthful words I will try to work on my view of God.
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@Kiri You will be in my prayers tonight. Start with a simple prayer tonight. God help me to know you better.
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Traditional talk therapy doesn't work for OCD. In fact, it does more harm than good. Before I knew I had OCD, I did about 10 years of talk therapy. I had about 5 different counselors. I went weekly for up to years. I never made much progress. I eventually got frustrated and quit going. You need to get a counselor that understands OCD and specializes in ERP. It has made a huge difference for me.
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Thank you, I will look for another therapist who specializes in ERP
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Hey all. I need help. I am sitting on my bathroom floor freaking out and convinced that all my work towards getting better has gone out the window. I am so scared of the “bad guy” getting me all the time. I constantly feel like I have to prove to God that I don’t mean these awful feelings and thoughts that I have about the bad guy. I’ve had trouble sleeping tonight, going in and out of consciousness, all while dealing with bad thoughts going in and out of my head. Finally I woke up and am flooded with “you have so many thoughts and feeling that you let slide while you were trying to sleep. You had thoughts that you accepted the bad guy and you didn’t dispute them before you tried to move on. You have so much to answer for.” So now I’m sitting here in my bathroom floor hysterically crying and begging God to believe me when I say I don’t any of these thoughts or feelings… please someone help
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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....
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I put a trigger warning because I will be discussing themes of end of times. I feel like I'm not following God's will. God knows ultimately that things were going to speed up end of times wise. A few months ago, I had a random thought to call someone I had affected with past sin and apologize to him although I did not know he was there, my sin affected him. I know he deserves an apology, but I chalked it up to ocd and treated it as such for months fast forward to now I feel like I'm completely against God. Horrifying. It's a complex situation I caused and therefore though I know he deserves an apology I'm really scared as I created a mess of things. I've been praying that God help certain things come to fruition so I could be exposed and help minister to others if that's what He's calling me to do but no answer. Instead horrible images and thoughts and feelings of doom. I see signs to apologize everywhere. I'm at my wits end. Because I tend to get ahead of myself I asked two family members and they said don't and then I see things that say Though people in your life mean well, don't go based on what they say only what God says. I tell God to do His will and I'll follow, do you think He'll listen. I even told Him I straight up don't want to do it, not because He doesn't deserve one, but because last time I apologized to someone else I didn't do it right and it was messy. I feel so evil, like a wolf in sheep's clothing. I also remember looking up morbid things for what???? Only to be disturbed pray about it and leave by why search it up again? I also fantasized alot about guys I've been single forever, late 20s now, I'm trying to go to church and my crush is there and I try to stop thinking about him because I know it's delusional but the thoughts don't leave. I'm so tired I want to stop but stop what? Living? I want to stick to God as close as possible. I'm going crazy.
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