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Recent content by gcook

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    Blasphemous Thoughts -- do you ever feel like you choose to think them?

    Just wanted to give an update, I'd been employing ERP for several months and doing my best to just ignore the thoughts, have enjoyed a significant reduction in thought frequency and related anxiety. Biggest help has I think been entwined in refocusing on another task or new activity, even if...
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    Blasphemous Thoughts -- do you ever feel like you choose to think them?

    Zachariah while I don't struggle with this 100% of the time as it seems you experience, I can attest (as can many others) that even bizarre urges and feelings of wanting to commit the sin and feelings of actually doing so, concerns over whether it's you or something not-you is...
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    Blasphemous Thoughts -- do you ever feel like you choose to think them?

    Thanks for the tips! I did buy Mitzi's book online.
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    Blasphemous Thoughts -- do you ever feel like you choose to think them?

    Hi Mari, thank you for your reply. I have been able to maybe about half the time either ignore the thoughts, or at least mentally chuck them into the "OCD bucket" as they occur. I've recently read a book called "Brain Lock" that has helped much with that and actively refocusing on something...
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    I had thoughts about deconversion (trigger warning)

    I don't know if you are still dealing with this specific struggle, but there is a great number of people who would say they actually did deconvert (their words) and then came back to Christ. So for them to actually do so, versus thoughts we don't really mean, would seem that there is nothing...
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    Blasphemous Thoughts -- do you ever feel like you choose to think them?

    What you describe as an impulsive urge, does that seem to you a distinct thing or in that moment does feel like you are choosing to think the thoughts? Sometimes I feel a distinct urge to think them beforehand, but other times in the storm it feels like I just simply choose to think them. It...
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    Blasphemous Thoughts -- do you ever feel like you choose to think them?

    That is helpful to know. I've read some of your earlier posts and some of the very specific scenarios that you had mentioned I too have experienced. How do you describe the difference between thinking a thought impulsively, and thinking it from your heart?
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    Blasphemous Thoughts -- do you ever feel like you choose to think them?

    Hi, I have struggled with blasphemous thoughts regarding the Holy Spirit, off and on for several years. It is particularly bad right now. I've begun medication and taken steps to just ignore the thoughts and have seen some success with that, but sometimes I fail. What bothers me the most now...