Recent content by Smiler33

Hi, I used to post on here a long time ago but sort of drifted away - that doesn’t matter as back again now. I’ve been through a lot of stuff bit coming through all of it now. Rediscovering my faith, step by step - it was always there but now the Lord is just about the first thought on my mind...

Hi Tim and many thanks for responding. I do take meds for my OCD/anxiety and get seen by my Christian GP every month; my therapist is well aware I am Christian too. I do have a 'real' family - I'm married with 2 lovely children. I so understand what you are saying re Facebook and how it...

Hi Shattered Reflections, thanks for getting back to me. You are right in that something is out of balance; as I said above I suffer from OCD and think I've just been letting myself do what I want without listening to what I know I should be doing instead. Of course you know who has been...

Hi Turned Around, thanks for your reply. Maybe I am being hard on myself but my default setting seems to be to look at rubbish on the internet. I have to watch out because I have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and am prone to fixating on things; I'm having Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to help...

Hi, I wonder if I can ask some advice please. I am really trying to be less 'worldly' - distance myself from gossip, not use Facebook and not spend so much time on the internet BUT I keep being distracted and going back on and look at things that I really don't need to. Why do I keep doing...

Hi, just wanted to share with you that I think I am slowly moving forward in my walk as I give myself over more to the Lord. I have struggled with something for a long time on and off now. Yesterday, as I was walking my dog, I had it in my mind to go a certain way so I could give into my...

Thank you. I have learned that you have the baptism and then you need to be filled with the Holy Spirit regularly. I'm just at the start of an exciting new journey. I'll read the thread when I get a chance and take notes. Thank you so much for starting this thread; got a feeling I'll learn a...

Hi, I haven't been on here for a long time but I just wanted to share my experience with you. This thread is amazing - I want to come back and read it properly later but before doing so just wanted to share my story. This last week I've been doing a Dunamis course all about the Holy Spirt -...

Flip, well done to you for telling your wife - that is just the hardest thing to do. Sometimes we have to really be broken to really appreciate the extent of God's amazing grace to us. You're right that you and your wife will come out of this stronger; it definitely helped me and my husband...

Alex, I suffer from anxiety, OCD and depression and am on meds. I haven't found I have been cursing anyone but OCD hits in different ways and I have had so many unwanted thoughts in my head it's just been awful. Do you have a good GP? Mental illness is so unlike normal illness and you need...

Flip, you are doing the right thing by telling your wife and even leaving your job. I know it's hard, scarey, painful and all the rest BUT there shouldn't be secrets between a husband and wife and in time to come things will settle back down - I think I even told you in my previous post that it...

I've just stumbled on this thread too as I've been in a very similar situation but it was with my pastor 2 years ago. I wasn't in as deep as you but I knew it was wrong - I was making every effort to just have a chance of seeing him, being close to him, talking to him. I too came on here and...

Thank you so much StandingFirm - I'll also check out the Ephesians chapter re the armour. I have to say that already I am feeling closer to God after just 3 days of taking some 'listening time'; my sense that I want to serve in some way is getting stronger in me (slightly worrying!) and I just...

Hi Forge3, I have never seen any of your posts but I was drawn to respond as, like you, I tried dropping/going without my meds with disastrous effect - I have come to realise I need to take them to keep me well. Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of; it's an illness like any other but is...

Thanks for getting back to me StandingFirm. I do pray to God very much as I would speak and people have noticed that about me; I don't have a set format at all. What I was talking about was if I should be concerned about sitting to pray and just opening my heart as it were when I listen - the...