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LONG POST ! “My flesh may fail , my God you never will . Give me faith to trust what you say , that you’re good and your love is greater , I’m broken inside , I give you my life “❤️ Song : Give me faith “Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me.” ‭‭John‬ ‭15:4‬ ‭NLT‬‬ Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭11:28‬ ‭NLT‬‬ http://bible.com/116/mat.11.28.nlt I wanted to point this out because I know that my Jehovah has done many things for me . He has protected me from falling into the lies of the devil ,from fearing the thoughts and to stop running away from God because he wants you as you are . He wants you to stay with him , without him we cannot beat this. He wants us to Go to him , lay it at his feet and fight the fight there at his feet . I have never felt more healed than when the spirit led me to give it to God during worship , I cried , at one point I screamed so much but not like screamed because of something getting out of me , but screamed out of anger , if everything that I kept in me , the feelings of being trapped by not only my mind but my sins . I let go of everything that night , and i wasn’t the only one yelling. The spirit came down and it poured in as we poured out (also to mention that this took several weeks , weeks of worship , get into reading the word again, being in fellowship , being taught by my leader, but coming to God and actually speaking to him . Every Friday I went to youth during worship he taught me something new. He let me pour out onto him so he can pour unto me . Took fighting , took prioritizing spending time with him , accepting this was affecting me , and that I needed GOD . ) He wants us to take the 1st step , and just a little step in seeking him , he will meet you there he won’t just go little by little like us but he will meet you there . Everyday take baby steps towards GOD , not the concept of him but God himself , and just like the prodigal son , your father will come running to you ❤️ If we don’t let the light in , the darkness will stay . Come to God , give him this battle , he will show you , that he is God , that those thoughts are not greater than him . He will humble you , because at the end of the day we are all still sinners , and no one is righteous . But my His love and grace we can come to him , because of his son Jesus Christ who made a way . Stay blessed , and how do you stay blessed ? You let God grow you , use you , you stay in him . He will provide, protect and give you peace . ?? I know we think “ no no how can going to God just cure me of this ?” I think I had the same idea when I was getting back to my faith that I came in with a heart of here’s my problem let me tell you how to fix it because obviously there’s only one way to fix it . But that’s not the case, God does heal , but you need to be in him , go to him , seek him , “come to me “ he said , “ seek me “ , “remain in me” and after the command he give you his promise of “and I will give you rest “ , “ and you shall find me” , “and I will remain in you “ . He’s more than willing ! He gives and gives , he gave his SON , there is nothing our father cannot do . So trust him that he can handle this mess in our heads he can handle them better than we can trust me . Bless up ?? hope this helps someone , everything I have learned is thanks to God . And everything I have up to this point is because of him including my peace of mind , and when days come where I give in to the fear of the thoughts or having them again , AGAIN I SEEK , again HE IS FAITHFUL. .. remember He loved us 1st, he chose us 1st , because we didn’t love him 1st and we didn’t choose him 1st . So glory to God I’m thankful that I can actually look back at all I have learned , I’m grateful for this post , I grateful for HIM . May this help someone .

I know i am talking to strangers at the moment so it is weird to me to do this but behind the strangers I feel there might be also people as me with their own problems who may understand me. I need to leave this somewhere. I have a really hard time making my own decisions in general. whether it is leaving my relationship or speaking to my boss, I need ussually a lot of reassurance. I don’t feel safe with my own decisions, and I am always afraid of making a mistake or missing of the multiple factors to take into account. I have the feeling this ruins my life. I have an incredibly close relationship with my mother, which is my ancor and the only person that truly was there for me when I needed someone. I have many friendships but unfortunately due to many reasons they were never fully close friendship, of that type you can call when you feel your lowest. I moved frequently from place to place, currently in a foreign country, where it is hard to meet new people. I am Spanish and we are naturally quite warm hearted people, and its hard for me to click sometimes with other different types. I am 25 and as I see myself transitioning into adulthood, i see myself so weak and unfit to deal with the hardships of life. I lost my dad 2 years ago, and my mom, now 63, just the thought of losing her made me feel the most alone person in the world. I would prefer to die if she was gone. I have been thinking about it and crying bitterly for 2 hours. Ocd turns me into a weak and insecure person, overanalizing, undervaluing myself and makinf my life a hell. In life you have to be so strong and practical, i feel ocd is making me handicapped. I feel nowadays friendships are so superficial, there is no time after work for Anything, it is so hard to deal with life. No one understands ocd excepts my mom, that saw the same problem in my dad. I feel without her I will be unableto go on. I wish i had good friends i could call and give a hug. I have the feeling society is so fake and superficial, and no one opens up completely, just ‘enough’ to make it seem like a good thing, but it really isn’t. Nothing I find compare to the trust of someone i could call at any time, like my mother. I would like to have that type of friend in my life. A person that has my back and that really cares about me. Its a shame. I wonder if anyone has ever felt like me, but with the passing of the years I feel more disappointed to see that I know a lot of people, but nothing is meaningful and everyone looks for their own interest. I hope someday I will find someone i can call a friend. Right now I feel so lonely on my struggle and so afraid to lose my mom.

Hi, my name is Michelle, I’m 28 years old. I have generalized anxiety, panic attacks and harm OCD. My harm OCD is the worst thing in the world in my opinion. I constantly worry that some how I am going to like loose touch with reality and harm my children in violent ways or that I will eventually want to harm them because of my intrusive thoughts and anxiety. Sometimes I’m really scared to be around them when this happens. I love them more than anything in the world and I hate feeling this. I feel alone and that I’m literally going to go “crazy” and loose my children if I talk to a doctor about it.

I can’t take living with my ocd kid anymore.

I feel like I’ve lost my identity and I don’t even know who I am anymore. My OCD is saying I’m not a woman but I hate that. And I fear that it isn’t OCD, and that I just genuinely am trans or gender fluid or something. I just can’t accept that no matter how hard I try. All I want is to feel like myself again. Pronouns are a trigger for me and they’re literally EVERYWHERE. It’s just so difficult. In a way, I miss having harm OCD or existential OCD or even health OCD because atleast I was still me. But it isn’t fair to say that because as I was going through them, they were awful. The grass is always greener I guess. I’m just feeling a little bit hopeless and alone, because I don’t think ‘gender questioning’ is a very common theme.

My girlfriend had mentioned once that she might be polyamorous and I’m obsessing over it, and jumping to conclusions that she is. I might not be able to be with her if she is but I don’t want to tell her that because I want her to feel free to figure this out for herself and not afraid. Relationship OCD on my end to top this off ???

I hate freaking out about my lymph nodes and having lymphoma or something. It’s been like a month and it’s still swollen. The doctor barely did anything and just gave me a blood test which doesn’t even tell if you have lymphoma. Googling things doesn’t help for me. Anyone with this similar heath concern?

*TW* Hey guys this may be a weird one but I’m really really struggling with the below article. Hoping someone who has read it before can clarify? https://www.intrusivethoughts.org/blog/talking-pedophilia-ocd-dr-steven-phillipson/ The main ones that freak me out are this: “so a person might look at a child, and find that child to be pretty, or potentially to even be sexually arousing, and then the person that becomes highly distressed” Wouldn’t that just make someone a non offending P? “Persons with Pedophile OCD are exactly the opposite. They have associations regarding children in a sexual way, but then react to those associations as if they are a moral criminal” By associations does the author mean unwanted thoughts? “Someone with POCD in recovery would be able to notice children being attractive, even finding some sexual nature in a child under the age of 18 and not react as if their whole world is collapsing around them.” If you’re finding sexual nature in a child, I’m just so so scared that this article means the sexual attraction is genuine and I’m a non offending pedo. I didn’t really find a clear distinction. I’m so so sorry for posting this, I’m in tears and barely slept last night. Hope this doesn’t affect anyone else just really need some clarification if I get an unwanted sexual thought is that genuine attraction still or just POCD tricking my mind into thinking it is and it’s not sexual attraction at all? Thank you

Is anyone else afraid of going crazy/developing schizophrenia/being institutionalized the rest of their life? At 16, I was hospitalized with steroid induced psychosis and was certain the (very mild) psychosis was permanent and there was no coming back. I slowly got better my psychotic symptoms/anxiety went away. I lived about 2-3 years anxiety free. Earlier this year I developed intrusive thoughts of killing/cutting myself under high stress and was sure it was a sign I was going crazy. I went in and out of the ER and nothing made the urges go away until I started ERP. 3 months ago I was diagnosed with OCD which explains a lot, but I can’t shake the feeling that this will develop into something worse. What if the psychosis is a part of my personality? What if my intrusive thoughts just get weirder and weirder and I lose touch with reality? Aren’t my intrusive thoughts psychotic in some way? Won’t this just become more degenerative the older I get (I’m 22 now)? I saw a TV special on near death experiences yesterday and have been kind of obsessing over it, like “what if I was a bad person in a past life and that’s why I’m suffering now?” Then I realize how crazy that sounds and it fuels my fear of going insane! No one in my family is psychotic, they just have OCD. How do I know I’m not truly delusional??? Does anyone else have this fear?

I am obsessed with having conversations with myself (pretending I’m talking to someone else and answering back for them) because I know it will be perfect if I can control every word. I also pretend I’m friends with people who don’t even think about me. I’ll talk to them when I’m alone and watch movies with them. I have 4 real life friends but I cannot count on them ever. Can anyone else relate to my behavior? Please let me know because I feel like a freak.

Is it bad to have a bad pedo thought n it seems so real and u think u like it n u don’t want to n other ppl feel sick but I don’t I wonder if that’s because I actually like it n I don’t really find it disgusting anymore I don’t what’s happening to me I don’t how I feel about my thoughts n feelings anymore whether I like them or not I’m so scared

Does anyone else deal with health anxiety? Over the past few months I have had some serious health anxiety. Recently I have had thoughts that I had breast cancer, I got an ultrasound everything was normal. Now I am experiencing achy underarms here and there and I am super anxious and worried anyone have any ways that helps them cope or can relate? I’m only 23 years old and just started dealing with anxiety this summer!

Hi everyone, This all might be a little tmi, but I just ask that you be respectful in what I’m sharing. I’m having a tough time getting over compulsions of telling on myself. I rack my brain about things that I should feel guilty about, and then I tell my sister on myself, and feel better for just a bit, until I can find something else to feel guilty about. I recently have felt guilty about a habit of picking my nose and eating it. This might sound really gross, but it’s become just a habit and now that I realize I’m doing it, I feel incredibly guilty about it. I’m trying my BEST to not tell on myself for this one, because I am trying to break the compulsion of telling on myself. I think I can get past it, but I still am feeling incredible guilt over it. Does anyone else feel like they have to compulsively tell on themselves?

Do you ever just think about how crazy OCD is? Like I’ve been obsessing over this particular theme for like 5 months now, and it hasn’t come true once. It’s so confusing and crazy how one thought can take over our minds so easily like this.

Anyone scared their intrusive thoughts feel like fantasies like what’s the difference - I mainly feel disgusted but then I get this thought what if I like it when I’m trying to just let the thought roll on by and it seems like I’m willingly let it stay and turn into a fantasy sorry if doesn’t make sense :(

Anybody know why pocd makes u feel ur attracted to kids n it always targets cute good looking once it’s like I have a type or something it’s so horrible. I struggled the other day with the intrusive feeling n urge to masterbate to a cute little girl I’m scared I’m attracted to her n if I was close to doing it because my brains tricked me into thinking that I will like it n it felt that was my actual intention when it’s not because I felt so much guilt afterwards. anyone else have this problems????

Help. I’ve been having these hopeless feelings for about a month now. They are terrifying to me. It’s an emotion that comes out of nowhere like despair or being stuck and I can’t escape it. The moment quickly passes and I get so anxious and obsess over getting depressed or snapping. I have no other symptoms of depression and love my life aside from the ocd and anxiety. I’ve always been an optimistic person. But these feeling are so scary and I’m wondering are these are just another form of intrusive thoughts that I’m responding to and perpetuating? Or is this depression? If so why would it come and go? Also I get so scared that it’ll come back or I’ll give in to it which seem like OCD “what if” questions? I ruminate out of fear of the feelings. But how do I deal with this? The feelings are so scary to me.

To everyone that struggles with rocd: Im going to tell you all about my experience with rocd until now. It was horrific at the beginning. I cried all the time... I was in so so much pain. I tried to get a therapist but there was no one with free space for me. I even got to the point where I said that I would go into stationary Therapy. (Which I’ve always denied even though I fought against bad hypochondria). I then finally received a therapist. I have already found out about rocd and I hoped I could get diagnosed with it. But he triggered me even more, saying that I live in denial. I then left and eventually got a good therapist who tried to understand me. She wouldn’t diagnose me too until I asked her it might be some form of ocd. She then told me that she hadn’t thought about it and it probably is. She supports me ever since that day. Helping me find techniques to get trough everyday. It sure gave me reassurance at the beginning but soon it stopped. First I thought that I might not even have rocd( that’s a very common thought that still follows me) and that I just don’t love him. I was helpless. But then I notice that my therapist can be a great support, but that I’m the only person to help myself! I need to learn to understand myself and be good to myself. I have an answer, a tipp to help you. Endurance: Endurance is very very important! EVERY FEELING is TEMPORARY. I ve helped myself a lot by simply telling myself: ,,I know that I feel bad and I know that it’s hard but it’s temporary and it’s going to get better“ By everytime that I have had meltdowns, the periods where I felt fine got longer. Right now even up to the point where I feel love! Believe in yourself! Endurance is so important. Acceptance: The same thing. „I know that I feel bad but still, I’m going to stay. I’m okay with feeling bad.“ There are so many up and downs! But thats a part of the recovery! Very common thoughts during those two points are: ,, I don’t feel pain does that mean that I don’t care about him anymore“ ,, I’m not feeling love right now, I’m afraid that I don’t love him anymore“ „What if I’m never going to love him anymore“ Everyone knows how real rocd can feel, but DON‘T make decisions in a state like that! Promise yourself that. You are going to notice yourself feeling better! Because feelings are temporary! Don‘t force yourself to feel love! You won’t feel anything because of the pressure. Instead of trying to feel love, try focusing on having a good time with him anyway. Don’t look at the bad. Be happy about every success you have! My current state: To be honest, it triggers me to write about all of this, I’m afraid that someday I’m going to break up anyways. I feel anxiety but IT'S OKAY. Everyone fears losing loved ones. I still feel bad sometimes. It doesn’t feel nice. But I don’t have extreme meltdowns anymore. My last one must have been 1/2 months ago and I’m proud for it! I barely thought that I could be happy again. I am able to wake up without thinking about something bad. I am able to be happy. I am able to feel love. I am able to face bad thoughts. I am able to enjoy my relationship. There are up and downs. I’ve learned that. And if I can do that, you can too! I feel anxious right now, my heart even aches but it’s fine. You need to know that it’s fine and that YOU ARE NOT ALONE I believe in every single one of you. Excuse my English I’m German... And have a great day/evening! ?

Today was the worst Christmas ever! I woke up with cramps in my tummy PLUS the thing that triggers my ocd fear was on my chest. So of course full blown meltdown, hitting things and everything else while I cleaned my bedroom and the bathroom. Then shower. Then checking the bedroom. It took me a little over five hours to complete. I don’t have anyone to talk to while I was hysterically crying and trying to deal with my ocd. It’s so hard. Life is not fair. I bet I was just as bad as Hitler to be subjected to my mental illnesses. I don’t know what I did to have to live like this. There are people deliberately hurting and killing animals and other humans. The only good thing was that I didn’t feel nausea nor panic attack-which is extremely rare for me.