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Ah, I see. Yeah, I had an entire year or two where I did almost nothing but schoolwork. I never really did much else but go to church related events. I couldn't get very far because I was always either ruminating or re-reading the same parts of the school books over and over. It's rough. Have...

Well nobody but a medical professional can diagnose you, but it can be easy to tell for yourself if you read about the symptoms and compare to what you experience. What do you do that makes you think you may have OCD?

Do you feel like you always need to be doing something productive? Like you feel bad if you do something that you find fun or entertaining?

Ah, I see. Yeah, OCD is classified as an anxiety disorder. It is characterized by someone having an "obsession" (which, medically, means you have a strong fear of something) and attempting to counter it with a "compulsion" (which, medically, means a thought, ritual, or action meant to try and...

Yes, I believe I've had similar obsessions. I'll be excited about something only to worry that I need to give it up or else I'm being selfish. It's funny, I can't come up with an exact example from my personal experiences right now, but I know I've had similar issues. Probably happened many...

It looks like you may have erased your original message. I'll try to answer based on the title though. It can sometimes be hard to assess yourself and determine when you are being obsessive compulsive and when you are not. For someone from the outside who understands OCD, however, it's usually...

Well a start would be to refuse to think of reasons why things might be bad. To beat OCD you need to just sort of "let your thoughts be." Don't try to come up with reasons why something is bad or try to come up with reasons as to why something is good. When you start having obsessive thoughts...

Hello crc134, Sorry for the late reply. These are posts from 4-5 years ago: http://www.christianforums.com/threads/idk-what-to-do-anymore.7575314/#post-57968418 http://www.christianforums.com/threads/help.7574274/#post-57969903...

What you describe sounds very similar to what I've been through. Faith related symptoms have been the hardest OCD symptom (and hardest thing period) that I've had to deal with in my life. I feared every time that I doubted that I had "stopped believing" and thus, was no longer saved. This was...

Doubts about my faith have definitely been the hardest OCD symptom (and the hardest thing period) that I've dealt with in my life. What you are suggesting sounds very familiar to me. What helped me was just realizing that you don't have to be 100% sure of something to have faith in it. Just the...

Not misunderstood here. Plenty of people here have HOCD symptoms. You're not alone!

I wasn't trying to say they were. I was trying to say that her OCD generated thought is very different from someone who is genuinely trying to think bad stuff. Sorry if that was unclear.

One of the main things about salvation is that we don't need to worry about going to hell for our sins. To me, this sounds like textbook OCD. Looking back to try to remember something bad happening makes me think of my germaphobia ocd. I used to worry "Wait, did I just touch that contaminated...

What you described, the feeling of "I don't care," sounds very similar to a symptom of depression. Seeing a different specialist is never a bad idea in these cases. Sometimes you get one who doesn't really understand or who just tries to immediately categorize you and send you for treatment...

I wasn't aware she had a youtube channel. I couldn't find it through google. Do you have a link by any chance?

I would recommend reading 1 John 3:13-22. Specifically, verses 19 and 20. "We will know by this that we are of the truth, and will assure our heart before Him in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows all things." 1 John 3:19-20 (NASB) Before these verses...

As jean12345 said, faith is not a feeling. It took me a long time to figure this out after my OCD got bad. Faith, for most intents and purposes, is action. You know what you need to do to be saved, and then you just live how God wants you to live. Doing what God wants you to do, even when it's...

There are a lot of Christian people out there that think anything related to the fantasy genre is witchcraft or satanic. I'm not so sure that it's as cut and dry as that. Are you familiar with the Lord of the Rings or The Chronicles of Narnia? These are fantasy books that have now been made...

This did strike me as a fishy post. A researcher from a university coming to some internet forum for research participants? Sounds like spam. I checked out the link and it appears to be legitimate, however. The link is to the OCD foundation's website.

I don't tell vey many people about my OCD, though, I have been telling people slightly more frequently as time has gone on. This is because I've gotten more comfortable with my OCD and am relatively firm in my understanding of what it is. When I do tell people though, I usually am just stating...