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I grab myself by the sides and squeeze very hard to check if my stomach is hard. I have this huge fear of pregnancy and selling my soul to the devil and they combine. I know this can't be good for me because I have made my stomach upset and I can feel things going back into place, if you will. Can anyone tell me better ways to put this fear out of mind?
I do nothing to think that I am pregnant except get the intrusive thoughts that I've sold my soul, so there is no humanly possible way this could happen.
 

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Hi Mynxie :)

Welcome to Christian forums.
Its always good to get to the root of our fears and that isnt always easy. What is it about getting pregnant that makes you scared, especially if you are not doing anything that might lead to it.

Does your fears of getting pregnant always associated with selling your soul to the devil?
 
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Well, I'm only 15 and many of the girls at school are getting pregnant.. you see it everyday. So as young as I am, I want no part of this. My OCD isn't something I want to pass down either. And I used to really be afraid of giving birth to the Antichrist. They aren't all associated with selling my soul. Sometimes I get afraid of shaking a boy's hand or giving a boy a hug. Just somehow getting pregnant plagues my mind.
 
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One thing that needs to be done is an examination of these fears. You'll come to the conclusion that they are pretty irrational.

For a long time I was tormented with intrusive thoughts of killing the people that I loved. This included animals. It came to the point where I was scared that I wanted to do such things. I asked myself; "do I really want to hurt others" I was terrified!

God helped me realize that it actually was quite the opposite. I am a person that could never do such things, but my thoughts were telling me otherwise. Took a really long time for God to help me see the truth. I was blinded by fear.

I have also dealt with the whole "selling my soul" obsession.

No one can come into your home and cause you to be pregnant without you knowing. Its not possible. There is no giving birth the the AntiChrist he is already in this world. Shaking someones hand will not cause someone to get pregnant. Its not possible.

When you really examine all these things, you realize they are just irrational fears.

Ignore these fears and thoughts and let them fade away. The more you fear them the more intense they become. I did this with my obsession of blamsphemy thoughts, they no longer have control over me. And they have gone away as well.
 
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Dear Mynxie.

I used to have a lot of OCD thoughts. I remember that I was afraid that I would curse The Bible, my computer on so on if I touch them. Every time that I read or even touch The Bible a thought came to my mind "if I accidentally curse this Bible I can't read it again and I have to throw it out". And then I tried to think about something else but I always thought that I had cursed them in my mind and therefor I was praying that God would make them "clean again".

Today these thoughts are gone! I almost laugh at them today, I realized how ridiculous my thoughts were. Let not your OCD thoughts control who you are, you are not defined by your OCD and you are not crazy just because you have some ridiculous thoughts.

God knows how you feel and he loves you and he understands you. He is not angry with you because of your OCD thoughts even if you think he is.

I hope that you understood my english. I'm 15 and I'm from Denmark therefor my english is not so good :)
 
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