Do any of you guys replay (important) conversations you had with someone (like maybe your boss) over like your mind is searching for something to worry about? Then after a short bit your ocd latches onto a tiny word or sentence and you begin to worry if maybe they misinterpreted what you meant to actually say until your mind blows the whole thing out of proportion? In a similar way to how when you find a bump on your skin or something and your mind starts obsessing about it until you get to the WHAT IF I HAVE CANCER conclusion.
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Well i have to say that im glad i am not the only one altho i do wish none of us worried about these things. 
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Besides actually having cancer; I think I've had similar kind of..breakdowns..per se.. Like, around the time my anxiety began to heighten, I was worried about what would I do right out of high school and then it lead onto other things pretty much summed up like a domino effect and I would be having anxiety attacks over what retirement I would look into like how would I survive and what should I do..it's okay to think over..but i was having at least 2-4 attacks a day and I was 16 at the time worrying about retirement and mid life crisis's..
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Yes, unfortunately this is common with OCD.
A few weeks ago I was worrying about something work related that happened the day before I had a day off. I knew that if I let it, my day off would be ruined by me obsessing about 'what if this' and 'what if that'. So I prayed for peace and and the anxiety lessened enough for me to actually relax and enjoy my time off without worrying.
OP (or anyone else who suffers from this problem), if you find yourself in a similar situation again, pray for peace.
Also try to rationalise it. The majority of the time you'll be worrying about nothing and there were actually no misinterpretations/misunderstandings. However, suppose someone did misinterpret something you said? Ok then, well next time you see them just explain what you actually meant. Or text, phone or email the person. For the most part you'll find people are understanding. It's actually not as huge a deal as your OCD brain wants you to believe it is!
A few weeks ago I was worrying about something work related that happened the day before I had a day off. I knew that if I let it, my day off would be ruined by me obsessing about 'what if this' and 'what if that'. So I prayed for peace and and the anxiety lessened enough for me to actually relax and enjoy my time off without worrying.
OP (or anyone else who suffers from this problem), if you find yourself in a similar situation again, pray for peace.
Also try to rationalise it. The majority of the time you'll be worrying about nothing and there were actually no misinterpretations/misunderstandings. However, suppose someone did misinterpret something you said? Ok then, well next time you see them just explain what you actually meant. Or text, phone or email the person. For the most part you'll find people are understanding. It's actually not as huge a deal as your OCD brain wants you to believe it is!
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Ah yes, i also prefer to have my disagreements/conversations that trigger these thoughts (if i must have them) at the beginning of the week vs the end as it usually means a miserable weekend for me as well. I try to forget about it but of course those are the thoughts that are difficult to banish. At least when it happens at the start of the week you might have a crappy evening but at leasr you feel like there is some hope of explaining what you meant the next morning.
I know that if we arent willing to forgive other people for what they do (not talking about wanting to forgive but not being able to) then it is really bad. But do we have to forgive ourselves for the things we have said/thought/done? Does it fall under the same category of not forgiving other people or does it just mean that we might be unhappy for the remainder of our earthly life until we get to heaven?
I know that if we arent willing to forgive other people for what they do (not talking about wanting to forgive but not being able to) then it is really bad. But do we have to forgive ourselves for the things we have said/thought/done? Does it fall under the same category of not forgiving other people or does it just mean that we might be unhappy for the remainder of our earthly life until we get to heaven?
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Yes, it's difficult when you have a miserable weekend of worry ahead.
I was once going to be away from work for 4 days when I had one of these freak outs.
I knew it would be 4 days of misery if I didn't do something so I actually dropped into to my workplace on my day off (it's actually on my way to church so I didn't have to make a special journey or anything but still....) and asked to speak to my boss about the issue I was worrying about.
When I saw him he had no idea why I was there/what I was worrying about! He told me to have more faith in myself and I explained that my OCD makes me paranoid.
Anyway, the point of that story is to show you how easy it is to let OCD blow something completely out of proportion.
I should have just prayed and moved on. So I learned from that and as I said, next time it happened I prayed for peace rather indulging the compulsion.
Yes, I think being able to forgive yourself is important but remember that mental illness is not a sin! You don't need to forgive yourself for OCD.
If you are talking about things you've said/thought/done not connected to your OCD then yes. If you've repented for these things and asked for forgiveness then that's the important thing. Forgive yourself and move on.
I was once going to be away from work for 4 days when I had one of these freak outs.
I knew it would be 4 days of misery if I didn't do something so I actually dropped into to my workplace on my day off (it's actually on my way to church so I didn't have to make a special journey or anything but still....) and asked to speak to my boss about the issue I was worrying about.
When I saw him he had no idea why I was there/what I was worrying about! He told me to have more faith in myself and I explained that my OCD makes me paranoid.
Anyway, the point of that story is to show you how easy it is to let OCD blow something completely out of proportion.
I should have just prayed and moved on. So I learned from that and as I said, next time it happened I prayed for peace rather indulging the compulsion.
Yes, I think being able to forgive yourself is important but remember that mental illness is not a sin! You don't need to forgive yourself for OCD.
If you are talking about things you've said/thought/done not connected to your OCD then yes. If you've repented for these things and asked for forgiveness then that's the important thing. Forgive yourself and move on.
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No, I don't think so.
I think forgiving yourself is really difficult, more so than forgiving others I think in some cases. God knows that.
Pray about it. Verbalise a prayer saying that you forgive yourself. Even if you don't feel like you do, at least it's a start.
Crash, I'm going to send you a pm.
I think forgiving yourself is really difficult, more so than forgiving others I think in some cases. God knows that.
Pray about it. Verbalise a prayer saying that you forgive yourself. Even if you don't feel like you do, at least it's a start.
Crash, I'm going to send you a pm.
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Absolutely. It may be more of a symptom of my autism and BPD than OCD, but I constantly replay parts of certain things I've said or will say over and over and over again in my head and sometimes I find myself harshly and needlessly judging myself on them.
I side with lyndsey89, though: our thought processes are not sins, so I try my hardest not to dwell on it with any lingering concern.
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Not at all!!! What is important is that we have Christ's forgiveness by accepting Him and what He did on the cross. When He died for you, it was to forgive you and wash you clean of your sins. Pure and simple but He had to do that because we cannot carry our own burdens. The book of Matthew speaks about our burdens. His forgiveness is much more supreme then our own. He wants us to forgive ourselves cause the voice of Satan doesn't want us to forgive ourselves as so we can be hindered from living in the grace God has for us. But if we struggle with ourselves it does not mean we are not saved.
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I go over conversations in my head a lot especially when I'm uncertain about the other person's intentions towards me.
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