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[startrekfan1]

Hey yall,

sorry I haven't posted anything in a while.

just wanted to update you on a few things I have learned.

If it is one thing I have learned about OCD, it is this...:

IT IS ONE GIGANTIC WASTE OF TIME!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, tell me if this sounds familiar to you.

You wake up, try to have breakfast, have a random thought, have a spike (the beginning of the obsession), do your rituals for the time, come BACK to that thought, do your rituals, rinse and repeat for the ENTIRE DAY.

Seriously, that is time that could be used to do something fun. BUT NO, a disease that we never asked for gets that time.

I am NOT trying to downplay OCD symptoms or make fun of sufferers. My point is that these random thoughts don't define you. The anxiety doesn't define you. Your characters and your morals are strong and God understands that.

Who else thinks that OCD is one GINORMOUS waste of time?!?!?!?!

 

[romans8one]

Hey yall,

sorry I haven't posted anything in a while.

just wanted to update you on a few things I have learned.

If it is one thing I have learned about OCD, it is this...:

IT IS ONE GIGANTIC WASTE OF TIME!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, tell me if this sounds familiar to you.

You wake up, try to have breakfast, have a random thought, have a spike (the beginning of the obsession), do your rituals for the time, come BACK to that thought, do your rituals, rinse and repeat for the ENTIRE DAY.

Seriously, that is time that could be used to do something fun. BUT NO, a disease that we never asked for gets that time.

I am NOT trying to downplay OCD symptoms or make fun of sufferers. My point is that these random thoughts don't define you. The anxiety doesn't define you. Your characters and your morals are strong and God understands that.

Who else thinks that OCD is one GINORMOUS waste of time?!?!?!?!

i agree man, but it's also something that i can't control. glad to see you back, how have you been?

 

[startrekfan1]

i agree man, but it's also something that i can't control. glad to see you back, how have you been?

Good, going through some things.

Your right, it is something out of our control.

That is what I have learned throughout all of this stuff.

But what you CAN do is shrug it off for the randomness and the stupidity that it is.

Next time you have a spiking thought and start up with your rituals, think deeply about that thought and think "Pff, whatever."

Expose the thought for what it is, sheer utter OCD randomness. Put yourself above the thought. That is all these things are, thoughts. They do NOT define who we are or what we are like. It is ok to have worries and doubts, everyone has them. Just don't focus on them to much. Go day by day and after a while, you will start to figure out what to do with your life.

Do you need prayers?

 

[romans8one]

Good, going through some things.

Your right, it is something out of our control.

That is what I have learned throughout all of this stuff.

But what you CAN do is shrug it off for the randomness and the stupidity that it is.

Next time you have a spiking thought and start up with your rituals, think deeply about that thought and think "Pff, whatever."

Expose the thought for what it is, sheer utter OCD randomness. Put yourself above the thought. That is all these things are, thoughts. They do NOT define who we are or what we are like. It is ok to have worries and doubts, everyone has them. Just don't focus on them to much. Go day by day and after a while, you will start to figure out what to do with your life.

Do you need prayers?

Prayers would be awesome brother, I just struggle with this stuff and I feel helpless and like the only thing I know how to get rid of it temporarily is to give in to it. I feel like God's grace won't cover me, even though I know it will. Sometimes I just feel like I'm not genuine enough in my relationship with God, but it's not by works that we are saved, it's by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, and i have faith that He is Lord, that He died for me, that He was and is perfect and is my Redeemer! Sometimes I just want to be with Him so bad, but I would like a family one day before I die, but sometimes i think i would surpass that just to be with Him in perfect rest and permanently away from this ocd.

 

[startrekfan1]

Prayers would be awesome brother, I just struggle with this stuff and I feel helpless and like the only thing I know how to get rid of it temporarily is to give in to it. I feel like God's grace won't cover me, even though I know it will. Sometimes I just feel like I'm not genuine enough in my relationship with God, but it's not by works that we are saved, it's by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, and i have faith that He is Lord, that He died for me, that He was and is perfect and is my Redeemer! Sometimes I just want to be with Him so bad, but I would like a family one day before I die, but sometimes i think i would surpass that just to be with Him in perfect rest and permanently away from this ocd.

Believe me my friend, I've been there.

I have had those "departure" types of feelings.

My job hunting hasn't been going well, and sometimes I have said to myself "If I don't wake up tomorrow, that would be fine." Along those lines.

But think about your loved ones. Think about God and what he wants you to feel. The fact that he lead you to discover that you had OCD is a step. It means that you now know your enemy and can learn how to overcome it and not worry.

Keep strong my friend. Only when HE decides, on that day our pain on earth will end.