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I was on this forum several years ago because of OCD thoughts about committing the unpardonable sin (blasphemy against the holy spirit). I felt this site helped me so much. Recently in the past year my OCD has spiked so bad that Im back to my old fears about this issue. Thoughts that feel...

So I fell off the horse the other night....An obsession started to grow, caught me kind of by surprise, and then totally spiked a panic type feeling. I cannot believe my body reacted when truly it is not a new obsession it just sounded more agressive or forceful. I know intellectually that I...

Dear Sad, I will pray for you too....My OCD has been trying to act up the last couple days too...I really had to practice my "oh well" to a lot of thoughts in the last few days...a few times I just had to sit and do some exposure therapy until the anxiety died down a bit. It is that "feeling"...

Hi Honeycomb son: Welcome to the OCD forum. You are not alone with your "feelings." OCD is an anxiety disorder that produces all sorts of fearful "feelings" to go along with perpetual thoughts of doubt...OCD will tell you the "opposite" of what you truly believe or want, that is why it is such...

I found this article extremely helpful in reminding me of the cognitive therapy techniques to recover from OCD. Wherever the article talks about obsessions, remember this works for religious obsessions too b/c the issue is not the content of the obsessions. The issue is the anxiety disorder...

I just got back from a great vacation, but I was troubled that I found my OCD spiking while on vacation...I did my best to employ my therapy techniques but I was really annoyed that my vacation was scattered with various OCD spikes that seemed to put a damper on my mood. I can't tell you how...

I agree with you completely Wiggsfly....Treating OCD is not about "stopping" the thoughts from coming...They will always come...Its about learning to live with them until you have a more balanced appraisal of them (i.e. meaningless, not true) and then we can more easily toss them aside and focus...

Hey guys: I appreciate this thread because it also mirrors my experience with OCD exactly. Sad, I totally get what you are saying that you wish you could just shut off your emotional reaction to the intrusive thoughts. This is the real problem with OCD. It's not so much the content of the...

OCD is not demonic. It is an anxiety disorder where our central nervous system puts off too much anxiety and we are unable to ignore certain thoughts b/c of the adrenaline and overstimulation in our brain. However, when OCD manifests itself with religious obsessions it is easy to think it is...

Hi Quannie: Absolutely 100% my OCD flares like clock-work when I am pre-menstrual...It totally makes sense that all of us are saying the same thing here...serotonin levels MUST drop in the pre-menstrual phase...At first I wasn't sure what was really going on, but now it is so obvious that my OCD...

I saw this too...I did some exposure/therapy for a second with it and then I was really annoyed too that this ad would pop up here...Ridiculous, immature and inapproriate. I really hope the forum can get that removed, but until then, we will have to "mock it" so it doesn't bother us... Boxers1

PARCmd: You are not alone. Your OCD has latched onto something that is fearful to you such as renouncing Christ. My brain has played the same tricks on me....you are so afraid of it that you think it/say it and then you start "no, never, not," to try to "undo" it which everyone is right here...

Hi PARCmd: I understand what you are going through. It seems to go in cycles doesn't it? For instance, I myself was struggling again with holy spirit unpardonable sin obsession b/c I read a sermon that was defining it in a certain way and then my mind said the words of exactly what that...

Does anyone have any good experience with alternative/natural medicine for OCD? I cannot tolerate SSRIs, but I use xanax to help control my anxiety. I had a rough spike last night...I was really mad that my body reacted with a shot of adrenaline and fear right in my stomach to a thought that...

andy...this question is also a fearful obsession, but you are not alone in having this obsession. trying to figure out why we have blasphemous thoughts is par for the course for the OCd...Maybe we secretly hate God...maybe we are evil...this is exactly where the OCD goes...constant...

Andy...I totally understand what you mean about being so totally tired from this disorder. And I think that is where you need to be to be able to start the therapy. And letting the thoughts happen and doing nothing about it is exactly what the therapy requires. This is really tough to do, but...

Can someone remind me why performing the cancelling phrase is not helpful in treating OCD. It seems I always feel so much better if I do the "Never is that true" or "No I don't accept that" after the obsession occurs. And my exposure therapy without the cancelling phrase is causing an all out...

It still blows my mind that the key to coping with our horrible obsessive thoughts is to Do Nothing and let them happen...basically don't try to get rid of them, just get used to them and say "ok whatever" (even if you think you just went too far- you're still supposed to say "ok whatever." I...

Thanks orangecrush...I appreciate that. It helps. I think I get impatient when I still struggle thinking that my therapy isn't working....but it takes a long time to heal from OCD...God understands our thoughts better than we do...so true....I need to stop wishing for a quick fix...its a...

OCD friends...I'm still struggling with the fearful thought of hs..i blaspheme you...please forgive me for sharing this terrible obsession, but it is causing me much grief b/c of the perceived fear that it is the unpardonable sin that I had to tell you about it...am i the only one to have this...