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EtainSkirata

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Hey all,
I've never actually been diagnosed with OCD, but I do feel like I have it at some level. Anyway, one of the things I tend to fixate on is my writing, and where my ideas come from. I've been paranoid that my ideas aren't from me, but from a demon, and for a while this stopped me from writing almost completely. But then I realized, how on earth could I know that for sure? Plus, any regular person wouldn't be obsessing over this. So I got over it, for the most part, and write a novel.
I say, for the most part. One of my fears is that I'm going to say something out loud, like "d*mons, give me ideas," and that any ideas I have right after that aren't mine. Well, one of the times I obsess over saying something is when I'm running, because I tend to get deep in thought, and fear that I'm actually whispering out loud as I'm thinking (because you have to breathe with your mouth open, so I can't just keep my mouth shut and be safe from not saying anything).
I've had writer's block over a part of amother story I'm writing. I was running a while back, and I had my usual intrusive thoughts of "I'm gonna say something to demons, I can't do that, don't do that." And... I did it. Sort of. It might have sounded like gibberish, due to me running, but I think because I was thinking the thoughts so hard that I just said it. And then right after I got an idea, a solution to the writer's block.
But I'm kind of freaking out, because what if that idea wasn't from me?
 

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I had a very similar obsession! The thing to remember, with OCD, is that these fears are based upon our over-analyzing the situation. You're so afraid that you're going to say something "by accident"....but that's not really logical. Even if you said something inadvertently, you wouldn't really mean it. So our OCD telling us that those 'whispered thoughts' are a big deal, is really just a lie. Have you learned how to manage OCD, and can you apply what you've learned to this obsession?
 
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Hi! So, I've learned to pause when I get obsessive thoughts, and try to put some time between the thought and doing a compulsion. This makes the thought seem way less scary. I've learned some tips from the book Brain Lock, it is a secular book just fyi, but it was helpful in learning how to re label the thoughts.
 
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Hi; indeed good not to get too introspective; the believer, with thoughts informed by prayer and the Scriptures, has the immense privilege to keep 'looking unto Jesus'.
 
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Those sound like great strategies! I've read Brain Lock too, I think (it was a long time ago LOL). Like they say, knowledge is power - it's so helpful to learn strategies that we can use to deal with our obsessive thoughts, as long as we actually apply the strategies!
 
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