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Kristen.NewCreation and FreeinChrist
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If you need help with OCD, feel free to pm me as well. (Or request me to pm if you don't know how.Hi,I want to ask you some questions,can you give me a private message please? I don’t know how to use this site
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Are you getting any sort of help for your OCD? It is highly treatable, and for some people medications and/or therapy can help. I've never done either, but I've learned how to treat the thoughts and it helps a lot.wh
why cant you share it i would love to hear it? this is exactly what i go through, think the thoughts are me and i try to control them trying to change them to positive
There is hope! Many many Christians with OCD get hung up on this particular obsession, but as with any obsession there is hope for overcoming it. First may I ask, are you getting any professional help for your OCD?
Some say that sin is unbelief ,or that if your worried you’ve committed it then you probably haven’t done it,i struggle with the same toughts,you probably keep thinking those toughts because your used to them,your brain is accustomed to them.Theres a doctor named Caroline leaf that says the toughts we have are made physically in the brain so that’s why their so hard to get rid of I think,because they are physically there,I think that the LORD knows your toughts and that you don’t mean them,He knows your heart ,a verse that keeps me goin is John 16:33 In this world you will have trouble but take heart! I have overcome the world.
I just hate the 24 feeling of melancholy derealisation and door depersonalization maybe I stressed for so long that my body has just shut down
I appreciate it man I've actually read that website up and down front to back back to front LOL it's a good website!
Sorry for my late reply. I don't remember if I've actually had the specific theme of blaspheming or not, but I know many many people with OCD have. In a nutshell, the key to getting out of the OCD cycle is to stop playing in it. The way OCD works is that it sends you a thought it knows will scare you - e.g. "What if I committed the unpardonable sin?" or it sends you a blasphemous thought and makes you think you want to think it. This is all in the hopes that you will freak out. "Normal" people use their common sense and filter such a thought out, knowing that the odds of it being true are slim. Those of us with OCD get stuck on such a thought, being afraid that it is true. The more we don't want it to be true, the more thoughts our OCD sadistically sends to us. So, the key to getting out of the cycle is to stop doing our compulsions, whatever those may be. For a blasphemous thought, it may be trying to block the thought or cancel it out, by doing a physical action or some sort of mental "action." Other common compulsions include asking for reassurance and researching, trying to "figure out" if we have done some bad thing or would actually want to do it. Our job is to sidestep the OCD by NOT doing these compulsions. This is very very hard because the compulsions provide short-term relief: "Do this and you'll feel better." But we never do feel better, because the OCD always finds another angle from which to torment us. So we have to basically "give up" trying to feel better. We recognize that the thoughts we are having are meaningless things our brain is throwing at us, and that we do not want them even though we feel like we do. Then we start acting as if the thoughts are meaningless, by ignoring them and refusing to do our compulsions. If we persevere in this, our brains gradually get the message that we are NOT listening to the anxiety signals it's sending us, and it begins sending us fewer thoughts. It's a tough process, but it really works and is so worth it. There's a lot more I could say about this, but I'll stop for now. Feel free to pm me anytime, and also to join "Christianity and Anxiety Disorders" Facebook group if you want more support. I'll also provide links to some of my favorite resources below:
honestly after 5 years I'm to the point now I've tried to just let it go and totally trust God what makes it worse is the feelings I now have their opposite to that which I want and they're so convincing.......after doing literally a trillion compulsions to relieve the anxiety which was stupid to begin with now I'm having a battle trying to stop compulsions they're almost habitual or automatic or a habit but yes this theme is very distressing because now it has feelings with it that made me feel that it's what I believe and what I want it's crazy but like I said I'm letting it go sometimes I'll catch myself doing compulsions without knowing it or even thinking Blasphemous thoughts without knowing it it's a hard battle.......I literally feel like something has control over my mind and vocal chords I feel possessed which I know is totally untrue but that's just the way you feel
yes it's silly feelings so strong making me believe I love and cherish the thoughts and would rather think thetm then what I should be thinking........ I can handle the thoughts but the feelings they're just a monster feeling hatred and disgust and weird feelings towards the Holy Spirit of that when it happens drive you absolutely insane can OCD do that I hate hate hate those feelings!!!!!!but I would not even be sitting here and have made it this far we're not for Jesus
Thank you so much for the advice and links,I started to do say no the the compulsions and it has worked for a while,then of course it gets worse but I’m working on it,the hard part is it feels like I’m rebelling against God Himself,like It’s His will to have me like this,fearing Him so that I would obey His every command and never break a rule or sin,and if I do He will cut me off,the rational part of me knows that’s not true ,but at the same time it just feels so real,I’m just scared of God,I want to go back how it was before ,me and Him now it’s I do this and don’t do that then I can come to me,otherwise it’s all I’m vain
also thank you for linkin those websites I’ve seen the ocd and Christianity and I’ve been surprised with how many famous past Christians have struggled with this diseaseand a lot of modern day believers too,I’m the Bible there is a verse explaining how we should come as a community and we’ll talk about our problems ,I don’t remember but it’s in the New Testament how beautiful
Yes, saying no to OCD is always scary, but it's worth it in the end!!Thank you so much for the advice and links,I started to do say no the the compulsions and it has worked for a while,then of course it gets worse but I’m working on it,the hard part is it feels like I’m rebelling against God Himself,like It’s His will to have me like this,fearing Him so that I would obey His every command and never break a rule or sin,and if I do He will cut me off,the rational part of me knows that’s not true ,but at the same time it just feels so real,I’m just scared of God,I want to go back how it was before ,me and Him now it’s I do this and don’t do that then I can come to me,otherwise it’s all I’m vain
