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Recent content by zingiber

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    Plant/Flower Identification

    It is an Impatiens species. Most probably it is I. walleriana, although the leaves look slightly unusual.
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    New--- OCD spike please help

    You could do ERP here - make your clothes dirty and then wear them until your anxiety over the matter lessens. Of course God can see that the clothes are dirty, but their dirtiness in no way makes them 'unclean' in a religious sense! This thought is also one of those whose falsity can be...
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    Please Help

    Hahaa! Well do I know these thoughts. Today they came to me on the way home; if I turned left and not right, or went right when I should go straight ahead, or if I didn't stop beside the road to look in a ditch, I would (my mind promised me) definitely be condemned to hell. I am sad to admit...
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    how do we know

    Think about Thomas - his was wilful doubt. He said this to the other disciples: “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe." And Jesus forgave him!
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    hi

    I think the advice given by justpassingthrough21 is very good, as are his comments on the nature of OCD. Unfortunately, the more assurance we are given, the more we need. The smallest chink in the armour of belief is enough to stick a dagger of doubt through! That is why ignoring the thoughts or...
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    hi

    I am very surprised that you have seem to have seen so little about OCD and doubting God. Among Christians, doubting God is a very common symptom. In fact, if you trawl through the archives here, you will find many threads on that topic. Before OCD was given its current name, one of the titles...
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    So Afraid

    Have you told your fiance all this, or have you been keeping it to yourself? How much does he know about your OCD? If you haven't told him everything, I think you should do so. He seems like a very good and patient sort of man, so even if he doesn't know everything already I'm sure he will take...
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    suffering from OCD thought problems and some schizophrenia thrown in too

    Well done Lutherangerman! Your post was splendid - candid and insightful. I really understood what you meant by this bit I have thought the same sort of thing myself so often. I will see the sun on the hills or hear the wind through the trees, and then suddenly in my mind it is like a window...
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    Giant spike!

    I was told to avoid even caffeine and alcohol to mitigate my OCD symptoms, and weed is much worse than those for playing around with the mind! In a normal person, it wouldn't do a great deal of harm, but for someone with OCD.......! You definitely aren't dead! Unless we all are, in which case...
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    Theme changed! Please help!

    I used to have alien OCD! This was before it decided to become scrupulosity. I would spend several minutes before bed arranging the curtains so no light whatsoever would get in; not even a chink. My OCD told me that if I left the tiniest gap between the curtains when I went to sleep, aliens...
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    ocd/sex eighteens+

    I made the same promise once too. I failed, over and over. But I always felt guilty about it, just as you are feeling now. Maybe God might strike some people with sickness to get their attention - who knows? But I doubt it, otherwise there would be a great many more people with sickness than at...
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    It was satan but now it's me.

    We understand the magnitude of the thoughts - we have had them. Or at least I have! For me the thoughts were near constant. I didn't know how I could get out, and I never, ever thought that some day I might be free from them, as I now am! Believe me, there is hope for you yet.
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    It was satan but now it's me.

    Not caring about the thoughts is a good place to be - that should be what you aim for. You should be able to say "Oh - another blasphemous thought! So what?" and then get on with life. You still care about these thoughts very much, and this is obvious - you keep on coming here worried and...
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    Verses for help

    I really like Isaiah 54, and Isaiah 57 from verse 14 onwards. These have been very helpful in reminding me that there is still forgiveness for me.
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    OCD and depersonalization?

    How long has this been continuing for, Nickie?
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