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I used to struggle with these thoughts during a personal time of darkness that started on Dec 6, 2014, a day after visiting a prostitute for both the first and last time. While we did not do it, I believe a demonic entity from her, targeted me and wrecked havoc on my spirit, soul and mind and crippled me over the course of that month of hell. After both my mother and I prayed these demons away and after some time elapsed, I was gradually restored, and now I'm totally healed. At the end of the day, demons who cause these thoughts need to be cast out. I still think the devil is out to get me today, by trying to crease situations and temptations in order to try and flood me with other evil spirits by tempting me into sin. However, by the grace of God I have been successful so far in avoiding sin that I think I'll be fine with any intrusive thoughts. If I look at porn then I'm creating scenarios that would lead to intrusive thoughts (probably not aware of it if I do that though or I probably wouldn't do that in the first place0.
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The Eastern Orthodox, the Desert Fathers talk about this kind of thing under the label of Logismoi.
Logismoi - OrthodoxWiki
The Struggle Against the Thoughts (Logismoi) - Annunciation Orthodox Christian Church
Logismoi (Evil Thoughts) — St. Andrew Greek Orthodox Church
The Desert Fathers: Struggling with logismoi
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I used to.
I learned to overcome it by allowing them to exist. It is difficult to do at first, but I figured out that your resistance is the reason they exist. Rupert Spira made a great analogy, "See thoughts and feelings like a train that enters a station and then leaves. Be like the station, not like a passenger." You can't always filter what goes through your mind. Much of it is from your subconsciousness. Carl Jung's integration of the shadow is what helped me better understand this.
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May I point you to the free web site 25 tips for successfully treating your OCD.
You may not have OCD, but point 4 deals with intrusive thoughts.
The advice is to just to acknowledge them and to move on, to just say or think. " Yes that is right. " and move on.
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Intrusive thoughts are not an artifact of autism, but OCD is a common co-morbid condition.
The best thing that you can do is
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The best thing that you can do is
- see psychiatrist for it &
- visit a church that is good at dealing with mental illnesses.
The Church & Mental Illness...
These USA churches are good at dealing with mental illnesses (such as schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, etc.), Vineyard, Assembly of God, Foursquare Church (Links above are locators.) They are present in other countries, as well...
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