Please Read All suffering with OCD

[JammyStar]

Check out this thread on an OCD board:

http://forums.stuckinadoorway.org/showthread.php?t=2143

Next time we have bad thoughts or need to do a ritual think of this:

Shall I trust God for my salvation or my OCD ritual?

 

[goldenviolet]

not everyone will relate to this discussion. and not every OCD habit is realated to disobediance to God. this does not apply to everyone. if anyone finds this disturbing and feels confused; please write staff, talk to your counselor, or someone who can meet you where you are in your stuggles with OCD. *HUG* xo dee

for your knowledge, i'm OCD, and i do not relate it to sin at all. infact, my doctors tell me that unless it interferes with my life, i shouldn't even worry about it. and since my issues are all clean issues: lol... i'm considered healthy. when i was younger i had ones that drove me nuts... i've grown out of some of them with theraphy, and age... but, ODC in my life is just such a small focus now. xo dee

 

[gracealone]

Well said Dee!! The obsessions/ compulsions of OCD are part of the symptomology of the disorder. It makes no difference what theme they settle upon. If we begin to equate them with willfull sin or lack of faith we will automatically put them into the realm of being a spiritual problem rather than a illness/disorder. This will complicate the therapy process because every time we do a compulsion we will feel tremendous guilt about it. No one chooses to have OCD, just like no one chooses high blood pressure, diabetes, epilepsy etc. Having OCD is part and parcel of living within a creation that "groans under the weight of sin". Things are not as they should be - but one day thanks to the cross of Jesus Christ these afflictions will fall off us and a new heaven and a new earth will be put back into the state of "goodness" that they were intended to be.
Thanks for your insightful comments.
Mitzi

not everyone will relate to this discussion. and not every OCD habit is realated to disobediance to God. this does not apply to everyone. if anyone finds this disturbing and feels confused; please write staff, talk to your counselor, or someone who can meet you where you are in your stuggles with OCD. *HUG* xo dee

for your knowledge, i'm OCD, and i do not relate it to sin at all. infact, my doctors tell me that unless it interferes with my life, i shouldn't even worry about it. and since my issues are all clean issues: lol... i'm considered healthy. when i was younger i had ones that drove me nuts... i've grown out of some of them with theraphy, and age... but, ODC in my life is just such a small focus now. xo dee

 

[Ceili]

I am learning to reason with myself. I don't see the battle anymore.