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Is this promise valid?

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I am not sure if this promise is valid. I was forced from ocd to try and make a promise to God but I canceled it. I do not rememeber what my words-thoughts were exactly it was maybe like

"not to return to my house ( I lived in a different house that day) to get some clean paper napkins"

or maybe it was like

"not to return (that specific minutes that i was thinking this words) to my house ( that I lived in that days) in order to get some specific clean napkins (that I had in my kitchen of that house)"

or not to return (that specific minutes that i was thinking this words) to my house ( that I lived in that days) in order to get some specific clean napkins (that I had in my kitchen of that house) in order to use them to do a specific ocd compulsion"

I live in a different house now. and I left my house to throw away 2 bags of garbage. due to ocd I was forced to return home in order to fill them with some more garbage that I left in my house. there is a chance that the bags were filled with paper napkins from delivery stores (not the one that I used to have that day from the super market)

ocd is telling me

ocd: ha! you may have broken a maybe valid promise. and here is why. practically, you returned home to get more garbage and if in the garbage there were paper napkins, it somehow fits with the unwanted promise like "not to return to my house to get other napkins".

I am so confused. do you see any relation? I do not remember what exactly my words are. if it is this case

"not to return (that specific minutes that i was thinking this words) to my house ( that I lived in that days) in order to get some specific clean napkins (that I had in my kitchen of that house) in order to use them to do a specific ocd compulsion"

I did not break any promise

but what if my words were something like this?

"not to return to my house ( I lived in a different house that day) to get some clean paper napkins"
 

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I am not sure if this promise is valid. I was forced from ocd to try and make a promise to God but I canceled it. I do not rememeber what my words-thoughts were exactly it was maybe like

"not to return to my house ( I lived in a different house that day) to get some clean paper napkins"

or maybe it was like

"not to return (that specific minutes that i was thinking this words) to my house ( that I lived in that days) in order to get some specific clean napkins (that I had in my kitchen of that house)"

or not to return (that specific minutes that i was thinking this words) to my house ( that I lived in that days) in order to get some specific clean napkins (that I had in my kitchen of that house) in order to use them to do a specific ocd compulsion"

I live in a different house now. and I left my house to throw away 2 bags of garbage. due to ocd I was forced to return home in order to fill them with some more garbage that I left in my house. there is a chance that the bags were filled with paper napkins from delivery stores (not the one that I used to have that day from the super market)

ocd is telling me

ocd: ha! you may have broken a maybe valid promise. and here is why. practically, you returned home to get more garbage and if in the garbage there were paper napkins, it somehow fits with the unwanted promise like "not to return to my house to get other napkins".

I am so confused. do you see any relation? I do not remember what exactly my words are. if it is this case

"not to return (that specific minutes that i was thinking this words) to my house ( that I lived in that days) in order to get some specific clean napkins (that I had in my kitchen of that house) in order to use them to do a specific ocd compulsion"

I did not break any promise

but what if my words were something like this?

"not to return to my house ( I lived in a different house that day) to get some clean paper napkins"
Are you the boss of you or is your ocd the boss of you?
 
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I think you really need to see someone for help. You're posting way too many times a day, the OCD here is getting really bad. Please see someone. This is getting out of hand. Trust me, I know that it's hard, but just try please. And I'm telling myself this too.
 
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I think you really need to see someone for help. You're posting way too many times a day, the OCD here is getting really bad. Please see someone. This is getting out of hand. Trust me, I know that it's hard, but just try please. And I'm telling myself this too.
YES!!!! :)
 
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