Hey everyone.
I have religious OCD (I have a fear of sinning), and I have a question for you. It's a general question not about my OCD, just about entertainment and overthinking. My "illness" is much better, there were harder times, like I was really afraid about even numbers and colors and I was afraid of eating and almost everything... It is hard to imagine but it was really hard. Thank God it is much better now, and I feel much stronger in faith too.
I only have these two remaining problems. I am unsure about entertainment, and I always overthink everything. My overthinking is because of my anxiety, so I don't really want to talk about it, but I am curious about your opinions about entertainment.
Every time I watch a movie, listen to a song, play a video game so every time I do something to have fun, I feel like I am sinning. I can't describe it. So I end up avoiding everyting, I am like I don't want to sin directly, so I avoid things. But after a time I ended up avoiding everyting. And I realized that maybe it is not good. I don't idolize these things, I just like them as a way of entertainment. If I could know for sure that these things are sinful, I would immediately stop and avoid them, but now I am unsure. And everytime I am like: Okay I don't think these things are sinful so I would not avoid them, I always find something "bad". And I overthink it. For example today I asked almost the same question on a group and they said it is not sinful to have fun and I was like okay I feel strong I will not fear and not avoid these things. But I was curious so I searched for "Is it a sin to play video games?" and the second thing I found was this:
http://www.christianforums.com/threads/is-it-a-sin-to-play-video-games.7617542/
So if you watch this thread you find this line: Listen people, all gaming and I say ALL GAMING is from satan.
After seeing this, I ended up anxious, I felt like it is a sign from God that it is sinning. Now I really don't know what to do. Should I avoid all video games / entertainment? Or what should I do? I know it is an axiety based question but I am corious about any opinions.
Sorry if something is not understandable, I am really tired and maybe my english is not the best right now.
I have religious OCD (I have a fear of sinning), and I have a question for you. It's a general question not about my OCD, just about entertainment and overthinking. My "illness" is much better, there were harder times, like I was really afraid about even numbers and colors and I was afraid of eating and almost everything... It is hard to imagine but it was really hard. Thank God it is much better now, and I feel much stronger in faith too.
I only have these two remaining problems. I am unsure about entertainment, and I always overthink everything. My overthinking is because of my anxiety, so I don't really want to talk about it, but I am curious about your opinions about entertainment.
Every time I watch a movie, listen to a song, play a video game so every time I do something to have fun, I feel like I am sinning. I can't describe it. So I end up avoiding everyting, I am like I don't want to sin directly, so I avoid things. But after a time I ended up avoiding everyting. And I realized that maybe it is not good. I don't idolize these things, I just like them as a way of entertainment. If I could know for sure that these things are sinful, I would immediately stop and avoid them, but now I am unsure. And everytime I am like: Okay I don't think these things are sinful so I would not avoid them, I always find something "bad". And I overthink it. For example today I asked almost the same question on a group and they said it is not sinful to have fun and I was like okay I feel strong I will not fear and not avoid these things. But I was curious so I searched for "Is it a sin to play video games?" and the second thing I found was this:
http://www.christianforums.com/threads/is-it-a-sin-to-play-video-games.7617542/
So if you watch this thread you find this line: Listen people, all gaming and I say ALL GAMING is from satan.
After seeing this, I ended up anxious, I felt like it is a sign from God that it is sinning. Now I really don't know what to do. Should I avoid all video games / entertainment? Or what should I do? I know it is an axiety based question but I am corious about any opinions.
Sorry if something is not understandable, I am really tired and maybe my english is not the best right now.