- Sep 18, 2018
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Hi everyone. My counselor/pastor suggested I need to try trusting other believers to help me discern what is coming from my OCD and what is true, so I thought I'd ask here since I have a dilemma. I have to decide today, so input would be super helpful!
As some background information, I really struggle with pride. It's like my heart can find absolutely anything to be prideful about nearly anywhere.
So here's my current dilemma: I agreed to submit to a conference with a classmate on a project we worked on together. However, I'm worried I'll be prideful about it if we get accepted. I already sometimes feel prideful about my academics in lots of different ways - knowing something someone else doesn't, my research focus, etc., so this isn't coming from nowhere. I don't know if I'm being scrupulous, or if I should genuinely be concerned and maybe back out of the presentation. Any thoughts? I have religious OCD, but I don’t want to chalk just anything up to that if it’s something I genuinely should pay attention to. The deadline is today, and my classmate has zero idea about my dilemma (and is openly not a believer), so suggestions on how to handle this if I do back out would also be extremely useful.
As some background information, I really struggle with pride. It's like my heart can find absolutely anything to be prideful about nearly anywhere.
So here's my current dilemma: I agreed to submit to a conference with a classmate on a project we worked on together. However, I'm worried I'll be prideful about it if we get accepted. I already sometimes feel prideful about my academics in lots of different ways - knowing something someone else doesn't, my research focus, etc., so this isn't coming from nowhere. I don't know if I'm being scrupulous, or if I should genuinely be concerned and maybe back out of the presentation. Any thoughts? I have religious OCD, but I don’t want to chalk just anything up to that if it’s something I genuinely should pay attention to. The deadline is today, and my classmate has zero idea about my dilemma (and is openly not a believer), so suggestions on how to handle this if I do back out would also be extremely useful.