I finished a three week intensive program for OCD. This past week on my own has been so difficult. My CBT/ERP therapist did a lot of Exposure Response type therapy with me. He is teaching me to label the thoughts as OCD and dismiss them as that. For some reason I am having a hard time doing so. I think always in the back of my head is this fear that there is no OCD and that I might just be a bad person thinking terrible thoughts. Some of these thoughts seem so real at times, and I get into "what if" mode, fearing that maybe one of my harm thoughts is true and I am not taking responsibility for it before God. Does that make sense? I'm afraid that I will die and have unconfessed sin, because I was wrong about OCD and these were actual sins I was committing. I don't know it this makes sense, but it is what is keeping me from being able to label these things as OCD and move on. I feel trapped and scared.
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I love your username! and a belated welcome to CF. 
I am sorry you feel trapped and scared. OCD can do that, but you have taken some courageous steps to overcome it. what your therapist was teaching you reminds me of 2 Cor. 10:5, "We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ." By the blood of Jesus, you are forgiven from all sins, and there is nothing you can possibly do that isn't already forgiven.
just to see you are concerned about unconfessed sin, shows how much you love God. and He loves you very deeply.
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