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Mental Compulsions or Deliberate Rejection?

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PARCmd

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Hi!

I have a problem with deliberately thinking the blasphemous thoughts (and then subsequently canceling it). I don't know if you've experienced this or if this is even part of the OCD disease. I don't also know if this is a mental compulsion or not.


Before, I deliberately think about the blasphemous thought then a canceling word after it, in order to pre-empt those bad thoughts so they would not come.

And now, for several days, I have a really, really bad anxiety, something like pressure building up that makes me to do the deliberate thoughts to tone down the anxiety. Sometimes, I have just an urge or something that makes me do it. In different times, I'm just compelled to do it. And lastly, in some days, it just feels that I have to do it. :help:

So there - I deliberately think those thoughts - 1) renouncing God, and 2) blaspheming God (through curse words, etc.), of course, with canceling thoughts and without the will to do so - it just seems that I have to do it. I don't subscribe to these thoughts and don't want them.

I can't even distinguish between obsessions and these deliberate thoughts. In a lot of times I'm not able to cancel them, because a thought suddenly stops me from canceling them. What am I gonna do?
I can't stop deliberately thinking about these thoughts, yet at the same time, I don't even know if these are part of OCD. I feel that God is so angry at me. I feel completely hopeless now. Sometimes I even feel that it is me willfully wanting to do these things. I really don't know - it just feels like that - yesterday I felt so empty inside I really don't know what to do. Have you experienced something like this?:cry:
 

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I & my husband have expierenced similiar thoughts & rumination. It's horrid isn't it. To think one has insulted or sinned against the Lord in such a way.

If you search this forum for scrupolosity(which sounds like you may have) you will find help & support I believe.
 
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Yeah man!! It' all good!! God looks past the mind, the mind is the devil's playground!! He can't read our thoughts but he knows your problems, and he can put thoughts there that seem so real like their yours!! Especially if you have OCD, you see blasphemy is an act of pure hatred for the Lord!! These thoughts should not harm you in any way!! As long as you don't believe them!! If you did you sure wouldn't be here asking for help on it!!:) So it's all alright man!!:)
 
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Parcmd,
It sounds like it could be a checking compulsion....I do that in my mind also so that it wont come on its own and scare me. In other words in stead of checking the doors or locks or lights, we check our thoughts, bring them up so they do not broad-side us and cause fear. The more we bring them up though, the stronger the compulsion gets. Find a scripture that you can repeat to your self....May I suggest John 6:37
Jesus said "All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out"
If we go to Him He PROMISES He will not cast us away. He CANNOT lie, so that makes His promise as solid as it gets....
I prayed for you...I am really sorry for your pain, and it will be tough at first to not check/bring up the thoughts...but it does get easier the more we do it!

Please Hang in there!!!!

Q
 
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