Exposure Response Theory

[guitarintro]

When an OCD thought occurs, are we supposed to ignore these intrusive thoughts? Are people experiencing success with the Exposure Response Theory?

Now here is my question. For example, I am about to compose a song, but had a bad thought. However, I classify it as OCD, ignore the thought and continuing composing the song. Now, will I be accountable if it was actually wrong, for whatever reason, to compose that song? Will God say 'you ignored the bad thought' or will God understand I am going through OCD and be lenient?

Am I making sense here?

I hope I did not say anything wrong.

 

[kaykay9.0]

This is just me, but this is what I recommend to make you a little more comfortable about ignoring such thoughts. I suggest you say to God ONE time and ONE time ONLY something like this:

Lord, you know that I don't want these thoughts, and so in order to end help end them, I am ignoring from here on out. I rebuke them in Jesus name and disown them.

Amen
God knows your heart. I believe this prayer is really unnecessary, but I also know that it may help the OCD from yelling at you so bad about what you're doing here.
That's it. ONE time only. DON'T REPEAT THIS EVERYTIME YOU HAVE A BAD THOUGHT! JUST THIS FIRST TIME ONLY TO GET STARTED! Then from that point on, don't give the thoughts that come the time of day. You will notice when they come but not attend to them, do not pray about them or give them any attention at all. Just go right ahead with what you were doing as if the thought had never occurred.

If you can really do this, the thoughts will become much less frequent. But it takes time. Conversely,the more you attend to them, the more frequent they will become. Really once you can begin to believe at deep levels that they have NO spiritual consequence, they are just"mind noise", the quicker they will away. Look at it this way: by not attending to the thoughts in any way, you ARE battling them. You are battling them in the most effective way. This DOES work.

 

[guitarintro]

Thanks for the insightful post. That actually does make sense. I think people have mentioned that if you do not attend these thoughts as much, then they will become less frequent. It's like putting fuel into the fire. If you don't give them too much power, they won't have that much power. Are there any other ways?