According to my OCD...

[ObsessedButBlessed]

I saw this on another forum and thought it was a fantastic idea. Sometimes it helps just to step back and laugh at our obsessions. In the right context, they are crazy! So, here it goes...my obsessions that I've had at one point during my life so far:

According to my OCD...

- I'll forever smell like a dog if I pet a dog, so I have to wash my hands thoroughly (hahaha!)

- I'll get sick from eating undercooked meat, so I'd better cut up every little piece and make sure it's fully cooked

- I obviously don't love my husband AT ALL!

- I'm not "Christian enough" because I don't think about God all the time

- My husband is secretly gay OR a sex addict, take your pick

- Everyone in my office hates me and I'm going to get fired

- I must have offended at least five people just walking down the hall to the bathroom

- I'm going to die from a heart attack

- I'm going to die from cancer

- I'm going to die from a blood clot

- I'm becoming schizophrenic because I talk to myself (LOL)

- I love my cat more than I love my husband (funny!)

Anyone else care to share?

 

[ObsessedButBlessed]

Oooh I thought of some more!

- I'm going to go crazy and jump off the back of a football stadium (only football stadiums, not baseball stadiums or anything like that).

- I'm going to crash while flying in a plane because I've been thinking about it so much, and doesn't that happen in the movies? Like I'm predicting it?

- And the big one that brought me to this forum..... I suddenly doubt God's existence and now my life is meaningless, but somehow, hell still exists and I'm probably going there now.

 

[universalspirit]

All my teeth are going to fall apart because I dream it.
People know I have strange tremors and think am a mess.
All my hair is going to fall out or turn white and I am not that old.

 

[OptimisticSmile]

SAD your last one cracked me up because thats me

Im just going to bust out in tourettes, laughing, vomiting or I will pee my pants (an old one from high school)

 

[ObsessedButBlessed]

SAD your last one cracked me up because thats me

Im just going to bust out in tourettes, laughing, vomiting or I will pee my pants (an old one from high school)

Hehehehee.... isn't it funny that we could be afraid of busting out laughing? Like laughing is a really bad thing to do? Though, I suppose if you are in a library.... LOL!

 

[OptimisticSmile]

my big fear now that my girlfreind and I are talking about marriage is OCD messing up the wedding. I can just picture myself busting out at the alter. Thankfully we both want a small and simple wedding.

I also am afraid of how OCD will effect the marriage. I would hate to go through what so many of you go through with doubting your love, doubting Gods hand in it.

 

[ObsessedButBlessed]

my big fear now that my girlfreind and I are talking about marriage is OCD messing up the wedding. I can just picture myself busting out at the alter. Thankfully we both want a small and simple wedding.

I also am afraid of how OCD will effect the marriage. I would hate to go through what so many of you go through with doubting your love, doubting Gods hand in it.

It's rough, I can tell you that much. My OCD didn't start until I got engaged. But God has gotten me through it. I am more in love with my husband today than I have ever been before. Finding the right therapist in combination of support boards like this have helped me through it.

I never doubted God's hand in it until I started doubting God's existence, but that, for the most part, has gone away now and I can see again that God has put me in this marriage because this is what he truly desired for me. It helped to know that if God truly did not want me to marry my husband, it wouldn't have happened. Simple as that. If it was the wrong thing for me to do, God would have made it impossible for us to get married. But he didn't, and I am so thankful for that!

Doubting your love is painful and I don't wish that upon my worst enemy. But God got me through it, and it helped to know that OCD or not, people sometimes doubt their love for their spouses, especially during hard times. But what remains in those times is commitment. Even though I doubted my love for my husband, I was always committed to him, and that's what got us through those times.

 

[HappyChicken]

I'm married with ocd. Its embarassing at times, but my husband loves me, and knows how hard I work to overcome it. Hopefully your spouse will love you enough to be accepting of it, even though they will never truelly understand it.

 

[HappyChicken]

There is nothing worse than uncontrollable laughter at inappropriate times. I thought I was the only one that did this....and you feel like the biggest jerk when it happens.

I think the worst time it happened to me, was at my grandmothers funeral. I got up and read a eulogy, and afterward, I sat back down. The guy preaching got back up, and was telling some story, that seemed totally irrelavent to what was going on. I think he kinda got off on a tangent or something. Maybe he was nervous, but he took forever to get to his point, and one point in time, me and my sister made eye contact and we started laughing...both of us. Uncontrollably. I tried sooo hard to suppress it. Everyone was shooting us dirty looks, which made it worse.

There have also been times when an emergency happens, and I laugh. I don't know why, because I don't find it funny at all. I have not done this in a very long time. Years. But I have often wondered if I'm the only one that does it. Almost like a defense mechanism that noone understands. ...or something. I don't know what it is.

 

[OptimisticSmile]

when I was being trained at a restaurant the trainer was showing us how to clean the chip machine. The door to the machine flew open and hit her in the face almost knocking her out and it bloodied her nose. I could not contain myself and it was so embarrassing I thought someone was going to chastise me for it and I was certain I would be fired if that happened.

one time at my childcare job I kicked a ball and it hit a random kid walking by and knowcked him over and I felt so awful that I could not contain myself and it made the kid think I did it on purpose.

does anyone else get the thought that mabye you want bad things to happen to people or planes in the air to crash etc.

 

[marcb]

According to my ocd:

-I've committed the unpardonable sin

-The last thought was the one that sealed my eternity in hell

-I have to confess the same sin over and over

-The next confession of the same sin will be with remorse sufficient for forgiveness

-I've prayed for horrible things to happen to loved ones and will be responsible for such things

-My thoughts have the power to break God's New Covenant

-Unanswered prayers are because I lacked faith

-My faith is not genuine

-My blasphemous thoughts are contagious if I reach out to others

-I have to explain myself to God (as if He doesn't know my heart)

My OCD used to tell me:

-I have AIDS

-"Today is the day I die"

-I have Hepatitis

-I will address a friend with an offensive slur

-I have offended somebody

God tells us:

"...my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8,9

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 5:3

"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Matthew 7:7,8

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:16,17

 

[gracealone]

According to my OCD:

As a little girl -
People with bright red hair were dangerous.
Bed was only safe without covers.
Then only safe with covers.
I would swallow my tounge
Poke out my eye while sleeping.
My heart would stop beating.
Oh Ya... I would be flushed down the toilet.
I'd drown.
Die in a house fire.

Then as a young mother -
I would horribly maim or kill one of my children. (Awful)
I would go crazy.
Be Demon possessed. (Thanks to listening to a loony preacher)
I would freak out during church and yell out horrible blaspemous phrases or swear words.
Later on:
I would drive my car into oncoming traffic or a tree.

I would throw myself off any bridge or tall building like a raving lunatic.

More Recently:

I wouldl become depressed to the point of no return.

Perhaps I'm not really a Christian after all, maybe because I'm having doubtful thoughts this means I'm becoming an athiest.

I'll probably end up killing myself because I'll be an atheist.

Then I'll go to hell and be seperated from God forever - because I became an atheist.
(Except that if I'm an atheist what do I mean by hell and God??)

Now that I'm doing better I have to keep checking to make sure that I'm not going down hill again so my OCD is about having OCD.

"Still crazy after all these years...."

Mitzi

 

[DruryGirl]

According to my OCD . . .

--I pray for forgiveness for other people's sins (e.g. I
hear someone swear or take the Lord's name in vain
and ask forgiveness for it).

--After a minor incident at work (basically just an
accident, I didn't think fast enough, nothing serious)
I believed I would be fired, stripped of my certification
(I work in a nursing home) and banned forever from
healthcare, rendering useless the occupational
therapy degree I'm working on.

(Actual outcome: I was inserviced on prevention of
future said incidents. They did not make a big deal
of it.)


Rules of My OCD
______________


1. Anything I could possibly enjoy in any way is
fundamentally wrong and sinful.

2. Anything I really hate and don't want to do is
the right thing to do.

3. If I become interested or take a liking to said
hated thing, it becomes wrong and must be
separated from me immediately, lest I enjoy it.

4. If I lose interest in a wrong bad sinful thing that
I wanted to enjoy, it becomes the right thing
to do. Unless of course I take up interest again.
Then it's wrong.

 

[QUannie]

According to my OCD.....
*I may have committed the unpardonable sin.
* I will be on the side of the goats, when Jesus seperates the sheep from the goats,if I do not go into prison ministry or visit someone in jail.
*I do not have enough faith to be saved.
*I may not have had enough faith when I said the sinners prayer.
*Did I really mean what I prayed.
*I am always messing stuff up.
*I may have HIV.
*I need to bleach all my dishes utensils and cups so I don't give my family HIV.
*My daughters dentist will tell I am unfit mother because of her dental exam, and she will be taken. {Forgot how weird that one is}
*People think bad things about me..weird, crazy,perverted, untrustworthy,bad ect....
*If I am enjoying myself...somethings wrong.
*Did I ask for forgiveness right.
*I'm not forgiving others enough...
*I'm the only one whose like this.
*I will get in an accident.
*Neighbors will call the police to report dog abuse if i pulled the dog on his leash.....{Wow, really forgot how weird that one is}
*I will offend someone.
*I have to check...doors in car, thoughts to see if they are gone, asking question more than once, checking thought to see if feelings are gone ect...
*I need to make sure that I am sure...need for certainty.
*Confess same sins over, cause maybe I was not repentent or remorseful enough and oh yes, this time I really mean it.
*Choosing how I say something very careful so i wont sin.
*Almost every thing that comes to my mind could be God talking to me or telling me to do something and it is usually something I am not equiped or confident about, it is usually something terrifying or extremley difficult or something I just can't do.{OK, God knows how my brain works so He would choose to tell me something by popping it in to my mind....hmmmm}
*

 

[OptimisticSmile]

based on my OCD these are all old ones

I am damned for eternity

I may be the anti-christ (funny how my brother had the same what if) we both could not be the anti-christ, oh no but one of us could be the false prophet

I have hardened my heart to God

I do not have enough faith so God does not hear me

I have commited the unpardonable sin

I took communion unworthily so I will die

I hate God and have no conscience and will say F-you to him at judgment

everything in my christian walk is done for selfish reasons, especially if I am blessed as a result.

I am going to bust out in tourettes

I am going to bust out in tongues if a jewish person is present at a church service (funny because I have a cessationalist view of tongues)

If I eat at a restaurant I will throw up (and I often do)

If i do not conscieouly think about holding it, I am going to pee my pants

childhood ones
if I here a noise at night someone is breaking in

Im going to stop breathing

Im going to die from spontaneous human combustion

 

[OptimisticSmile]

oh and I forgot

I may be demon possessed

and aliens might abduct me while im sleeping ( a childhood fear)


thank goodness I do not believe any of this

 

[wiggsfly]

I could write a whole novel listing mine so I think I'll leave this one alone....