Christian advice please anyone who knows about ocd?

[Karabear10]

I am having serious problems today. I feel so bad and confused. I need to read my Bible but all I can do is look at my phone. I just can't get rid of the thoughts asking me how I know its true? How do I know if Jesus is the right Way? I belive He is but how do I stop this uncertainty. I don't want to live like this. Theres so much I need to do and I am doing is trying to shut my mind up. Please anyone who can give me advice I would appreciate it. I don't even know if it's ocd. What if I truly am doubting the Bible and I don't believe it? Sometimes horrible thoughts pop into my head that I could become an apostate and an atheist. Or go to some other false religion. Its horrible. I am having such a hard time. My mind is just so confused.

Example
The Bible foretold Jesus and what He did! Its clearly true!
Thoughts: what if the writers lied about the fulfillment?
This a crazy thought. I don't get why my mind endlessly questions the answers I give it.

 

[Carl Emerson]

I am having serious problems today. I feel so bad and confused. I need to read my Bible but all I can do is look at my phone. I just can't get rid of the thoughts asking me how I know its true? How do I know if Jesus is the right Way? I belive He is but how do I stop this uncertainty. I don't want to live like this. Theres so much I need to do and I am doing is trying to shut my mind up. Please anyone who can give me advice I would appreciate it. I don't even know if it's ocd. What if I truly am doubting the Bible and I don't believe it? Sometimes horrible thoughts pop into my head that I could become an apostate and an atheist. Or go to some other false religion. Its horrible. I am having such a hard time. My mind is just so confused.

Example
The Bible foretold Jesus and what He did! Its clearly true!
Thoughts: what if the writers lied about the fulfillment?
This a crazy thought. I don't get why my mind endlessly questions the answers I give it.

Are you in good loving fellowship?
Can you have a mature believer pray for you for God's peace.

 

[Karabear10]

Yes I am. I will try that!

 

[SarahsKnight]

Example
The Bible foretold Jesus and what He did! Its clearly true!
Thoughts: what if the writers lied about the fulfillment?

I can't tell you how often during my agonizing year struggling through this type of ocd, that "what if" questions just like this kept going through my mind. Your mind races during these times, and can endlessly come up with all sorts of crazy questions no matter how at peace you think you should be in matters such as faith that just moments before you may feel you have settled to your satisfaction. It's a terrible trap that our minds get in during this time. Unfortunately I have little practical advice on how to just make it stop, Miss Karabear, because it seems that only through miraculous intervention directly from the ocd Himself can one ever be delivered. Even for me, the "bad thoughts" and "what if" questions never truly stopped even after my deliverance (thank God in His mercy for the deliverance part); they just come up a lot less frequently and they no longer have the power to make me scared like they had during that period where I struggled the same as you now do. All I can tell you is just keep praying for peace and deliverance and try your best not to put any stock in the bad thoughts, as though they are some kind of indication that you are secretly condemned and actually hate God or reject Christ or something else like that. God knows you better than that. It may also help - while I did not try it myself before the seeming day when it suddenly seemed like I was delivered from this ocd sickness and was no longer living in daily fear and misery from the bad thoughts - to try to talk to a therapist, either one who is a Christ believer himself or one who at least may have come from a Christian upbringing and can better see your religious-related problem from your perspective than someone with flatly no faith can, who can come up with plan of action for helping you cope with and treat the constant nagging bad thoughts. It's called cognitive behavioral therapy, I think. On a more general level I think it will also help to try to think of the Lord as wholly benevolent and with you in this dark time all the way, rather than Someone who is always against you or lords the threat of hell or some other kind of condemnation over you (as some Christian unfortunately tend to seem to want to believe Him to be). Cling to His mercy and keep trusting no matter often or how much your brain might seem like it's screaming at you otherwise with the bad thoughts.

And also, please take caution after reading my post; I thought of this next upon writing everything above about praying for deliverance and the fact that I myself was delivered after thankfully only a year of this hellish misery of ocd, and I want to make sure you are ready for it:
In your current state you may very well be inclined to think a bad "what if" just like this =>
Me: I was thankfully delivered from this ocd sickness after just one year.
Your Brain: ... Wait! It's been over a year since I have been suffering from this. What if that means I actually am condemned and God hates me because my bad thoughts are the real me, my real heart and I was never saved and have intentionally committed the unforgivable sin and there's never been any hope for me?! NO!!!

Your mind may very well come up with a thought like that just because your condition may not immediately get better after this post. I mean, it's the nature of ocd of this type to be like that. All sorts of new "what ifs" popping into mind. Again, be ready for it, and please take no stock in it if a thought like this happens. Remember, no matter what, God is for you and not against you. He is not a tyrant taking pleasure in your pain right now. I will pray for you, Karabear.

 

[d taylor]

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Well if it is a lie, there is nothing to worry about. Cause there is nothing you can do about it.

And if it is true (which it is) there is nothing to worry about. So if you have believed in The Messiah for God's free gift of Eternal Life. You have nothing to worry about but something to work toward. And than is a good judgment at the judgment seat of The Messiah where rewards will be given.

 

[Sabertooth]

@Karabear10,
Is your OCD being managed by a psychiatrist?

The Church & Mental Illness...

 

[Karabear10]

No. I've been thinking i should see one im just worried about the money

 

[Larniavc]

I am having serious problems today. I feel so bad and confused. I need to read my Bible but all I can do is look at my phone. I just can't get rid of the thoughts asking me how I know its true? How do I know if Jesus is the right Way? I belive He is but how do I stop this uncertainty. I don't want to live like this. Theres so much I need to do and I am doing is trying to shut my mind up. Please anyone who can give me advice I would appreciate it. I don't even know if it's ocd. What if I truly am doubting the Bible and I don't believe it? Sometimes horrible thoughts pop into my head that I could become an apostate and an atheist. Or go to some other false religion. Its horrible. I am having such a hard time. My mind is just so confused.

Example
The Bible foretold Jesus and what He did! Its clearly true!
Thoughts: what if the writers lied about the fulfillment?
This a crazy thought. I don't get why my mind endlessly questions the answers I give it.

Sounds like you are describing ‘intrusive thoughts’ which are consistent with OCD. Have you heard of CBT? It is an evidence based treatment for the symptoms you describe.

Would you like me to send you some links?

 

[Unqualified]

The thoughts are your flesh that can’t please God. Chalk it off to that and push it away. Defend your position. I would meditate on positive affirmations and scripture. I do believe in Jesus. I love Jesus, He is lord, He is Lord. Repeat till you are sure. John 3:16.
Find others. Take heart in the scriptures. Put your mind to believing. It calms a person down. Trust the scriptures.

 

[Sabertooth]

No. I've been thinking i should see one im just worried about the money

If your income is low enough, you should be eligible for Medicaid.

 

[Karabear10]

I will have to try and find out. I just don't know where I would go to do that. I guess ill have to research.

 

[Karabear10]

Sounds like you are describing ‘intrusive thoughts’ which are consistent with OCD. Have you heard of CBT? It is an evidence based treatment for the symptoms you describe.

Would you like me to send you some links?

I have not heard

Sounds like you are describing ‘intrusive thoughts’ which are consistent with OCD. Have you heard of CBT? It is an evidence based treatment for the symptoms you describe.

Would you like me to send you some links?

Yes please, I have not heard of that

 

[Larniavc]

I have not heard

Yes please, I have not heard of that

Take a look at this.

https://cedar.exeter.ac.uk/media/un...ar/documents/liiapt/OCDSelf_Help_Workbook.pdf

If you have any questions let me know.

 

[Tolworth John]

My mind is just so confused.

Please look up:-
25 Tips for Succeeding in Your OCD Treatment - International OCD Foundation

It is a free site giving advice on treating OCD, point 4 deals with intrusive thoughts, please read this carefully and try to put it into practise.