Hi everyone.....
I am new, again! I left for a year and a half.
Looking forward to being here.
I am new, again! I left for a year and a half.
Looking forward to being here.
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Back after 1 1/2 years
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Thanks dabro and kaykay......
I am looking forward to being back.
I am better than I have ever been....I still have OCD but, I see it differently.
I still struggle but I am learning to trust God with whatever my obsessing is telling me.....
I try not to let the mind games go too far......
I do not try to de-sensitize my mind of what I am obsessing about because it will just find something else I will need to de-sensitize myself from. It seems to feed it.
I know there are many who do that and find relief but I do not believe that is the way to go for me, it feeds it to morph into something else. I believe the way to go is surrender....
if I am righteous in Christ because of His blood, all my obsessing is noise, and no matter what could happen to me here on this earth is minor to the glory and joy I will share with Jesus for all of eternity.
By trusting Jesus even with my awful obsessions, and letting them go....{sometimes over and over and over} they are weakened, they do not define all my day and who I am.....I still fall but not the way I used to.
sorry to go on,
thanks for the warm welcome back!
I am looking forward to being back.
I am better than I have ever been....I still have OCD but, I see it differently.
I still struggle but I am learning to trust God with whatever my obsessing is telling me.....
I try not to let the mind games go too far......
I do not try to de-sensitize my mind of what I am obsessing about because it will just find something else I will need to de-sensitize myself from. It seems to feed it.
I know there are many who do that and find relief but I do not believe that is the way to go for me, it feeds it to morph into something else. I believe the way to go is surrender....
if I am righteous in Christ because of His blood, all my obsessing is noise, and no matter what could happen to me here on this earth is minor to the glory and joy I will share with Jesus for all of eternity.
By trusting Jesus even with my awful obsessions, and letting them go....{sometimes over and over and over} they are weakened, they do not define all my day and who I am.....I still fall but not the way I used to.
sorry to go on,
thanks for the warm welcome back!
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Glad you have found a method that seems to help you with the obsessions. I especially liked what you said about trying not to let the mind games go too far. Do you have some kind of thing you usually say to yourself or to the Lord when this happens? I know you said you give it to the Lord and trust Him, but what does this specifically "look like?"
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kaykay,
what this "looks like" is I go to Jesus in prayer, I tell Him about it, and I lay it at His feet or I give it to Him. I leave it there. When the urge comes to worry, or to do a compulsion I remind myself I have a choice....I can believe what scripture says to take all my worries to God, because He cares for me, if my soul is safe with Him...so are my worries, He will carry them.
Or I can do what my urges are telling me to do, and the past has shown doing these compulsions do nothing to help me....in fact it causes more worry and anxiety.
If I am busy and can not get away to pray I will just tell Him {which is still prayer} God I give this to you cause I need help.
If I take it back from Him which is evident in my anxiety {ruminating over and over in my mind} or compulsion, I will confess it to Him and give it back. I trust Him no matter what my mind is screaming at me.... This mind screaming has proven to be false in the past, and the obsession at the moment fits in the category like all the others.
I do not believe de-sensitizing works because scripture tells us in Philippians 4:8 to fix our thoughts on what is TRUE, HONORABLE and RIGHT. things that are PURE, LOVELY and ADMIRABLE, EXCELLENT and WORTHY OF PRAISE. If I am de-sensitizing my mind to my obsessions so I won't freak out, it will only start obsessing about something else, I am not stopping the way I am handling thoughts....I am only de-sensitizing it to a certain topic or subject.
hope that helps you understand a bit more.....
I do still fall at times but I get back up and start again and I can say it {ocd }is not as intense and over powering as it used to be. I can say my faith has grown. It is allot of work, but I want to be done with this OCD....and I want my relationship with Jesus to grow so I will work......I do not do it well all the time, but progress is there for me....PRAISE GOD!
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