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- 15w
Worried about going to hell
I’ve been worried that I will go to hell and have lost a lot of my interests, personality and even music I like . I don’t know who I am anymore
I’ve been worried that I will go to hell and have lost a lot of my interests, personality and even music I like . I don’t know who I am anymore
My OCD appears in a similar form, in my fears of intrusive thoughts in relation to religion. I have learned through research that this form of OCD is known as scrupulosity and is quite common. I don't know what religion you follow, or how you view hell, but I find that the essential key to removing the fear of such thoughts is perspective. How is your perspective of God affecting how you respond to thoughts? Do you believe God cares about you? I am a Christian, and until I realized I can't control the content of my thoughts or when they come up, I consistently attempted to make myself feel better through study, prayer, and meditation (obvious compulsions). As I mentioned, our perspective of God changes us, and through grace I put away all my attempts to fight a futile battle. That's the entire point of grace - to pardon the wrong humans can't stop doing even when we try to do good. Do you believe God can forgive you and save you from hell?
Why don't you speak to a priest or minister about it.
@Steven55! They are just going to tell me I’m going to go hell
I highly doubt it, but look at it like this: what could it hurt, since you are already convinced you're doomed. BtW, what makes you think you are going to hell?
@Steven55! Didn’t wait till marriage Wasn’t religious until recently Listen to rap music Don’t dress modest Drink alcohol
@sophia70 - I'm sorry that you are grappling with this. One thing that's worth keeping in mind though is that we tend to judge ourselves far more harshly than we judge other people. I think that's a human tendency in general, but especially true for those of us with OCD. We hold ourselves to standards that we wouldn't impose on anyone else. I would just ask you to imagine someone in your life, maybe a friend or family member, came to you with these same concerns. Do you think you would just write them off as doomed in the same way that you are telling yourself that you are doomed? I don't know you, but my guess is that your first reaction would be to point out to that person all the good things about them that make them worthy of being saved.
@sophia70 So did St. Augustine (well, not the rap music) and look how he turned out...
@sophia70 I understand your concerns and i want you feel free! Rap music and drinking alcohol are not sins. Modesty is relative to the circumstances. Majority of people in this world did not wait for marriage. Be free!
@julianofnorwich All shall be well...
@Steven55! Exactly! Julian gives me comfort!
Look who Jesus hung around with, those who needed forgiveness and those who the religious leaders looked down on. He will forgive you he took the weight of our sin on the cross. Look into his life and why he came
Me to, nowadays I see all kinds of evil things happening to people and I often wounder does God even care ? I pray for the war to stop for the evil things to stop happening to people, it already feels like I’m in Hell, but check out this video (Virgin marry miracle of the sun) (The story of Garabandal ) U can find it on YouTube, but I question who the true God is. Because there is thousands of religions and we could have been born into a different area in the world also being told that their religion is the truth, it feels so sad for me tbh 😞
Seriously, you're young. God knows your heart. I do think you should see a priest or minister. Are you in OCD therapy?
I’m pretty sure God who has compassion and love for his children would not want you to suffer
Especially if it could dissipate or disappear and you had a good life he’s still support and love you. This is OCD attacking your beliefs
I’m curious - Did you grow up in a religious household? If so, what religion?
@Waging War Against OCD No I did not.
@sophia70 I became more religious after attending private school which was catholic which im grateful for but im Protestant
@sophia70 - Hi - I think this video would help you a lot. It's by Mark De Jesus. He is so good at speaking to Christians with OCD. https://markdejesus.com/do-you-compulsively-check-your-believing/ Also, you may like a book I wrote - "Waging War Against OCD - A Christian Approach to Victory." The key for fighting the obsession on the fear that you are going to hell is to realize how much favor God has towards us - INDEPENDENT OF ANYTHING WE DO. Understanding God's grace is easy to understand in our minds, but the challenge is getting it to our hearts. I talk alot about that in Chapter 9. Mark DeJesus also has written several books - one talks about having a healthy relationship with fear - something we often don't have when we have OCD. I hope some of this helps!
I think controlling intrusive thoughts is as you say futile. Thank GOD He sees our hearts. He is our comforter.
I currently have chronic fatigue syndrome partly from rocd, that relationship is over so it’s gone. But to get better from this I have to not worry. Anxiety is a big part of CFS for everyone. During this time I got very close to God, but lately I’ll feel He’s gone. Before that I’ve been speaking w Christian healing ministry and they basically told me most things are occult. All music, Hollywood, martial arts(I love martial arts) and paying attention to any of it is inviting demons. Also 8% of Christian’s are going to heaven due to multiple ( and his personally) near death experiences. I feel I’m seeking out therapy and coaching to heal from CFS and I feel God is completely gone. I can’t pray. I feel as though I’m going against his will and not sticking with the healing ministry and taking it into my own hands. Just in fear and don’t know which way to turn
At first, it just started as harmless questions, curiously exploring the universe and what life and death mean as a human. Then it became an obsession about death and the afterlife. I’m a Catholic-turned-agnostic who recently took an interest in religion again, trying to redevelop a relationship with God without letting the fear of not being good enough and possibly going to Hell taking over me. Instead, my brain latched onto the possibility that there is no God, that there’s eternal nothingness after the short time we have here on earth and that everything means nothing. My love for my friends and family. My desire to achieve my goals, and to be happy for the people I love achieving theirs. I’m haunted by the feeling that it will all be for nothing, that I will never be reunited with those that I love, that the people I love who have passed on have ceased to exist and one day, so will I and everyone else. I can’t function now. I’ve made myself physically ill over this. I’ve lost my appetite. As someone who once took pride in how much love I have for my job as a daycare teacher, I come into work and feel numb. I go home and feel numb. I’ve obsessively started telling the people in my life how much I love and appreciate them because for the past three days, I’ve been sick thinking about how one day, either I’ll leave them or they’ll leave me. It feels like nothing matters. It feels like everything is in vain. I’ve tried so hard to reframe my mindset, to rewire my brain to not think that way. I’ve tried ERP techniques of allowing myself to sit with the discomfort that the fear brings. To try and desensitize myself to this fear. Nothing seems to work. I’m so lost. I’ve been this way for three days, with yesterday and today being worse than the day it started. It’s like the obsession is morphing into depression in a way. I’m scared I’ll never feel enjoyment in any form again. I don’t know what to do anymore.
So I almost said something against the Holy Spirit the devil has been trying to get me to say something against it for like weeks now and has been trying to get me to see Jesus in like a scary way with like devil horns and all of that stuff like that and then last night he made the cross my mind where I wasn’t scared to go to hell but I truly am and I see how he’s playing on my emotions and the fact that where I tried to cry, but I couldn’t cry anymore and he keeps trying to convince me to say these things that I don’t wanna say and he he keeps trying to get me to say that I curse the Holy Spirit, but I don’t I really truly don’t and then I just started to feel weird last night like I didn’t feel anything I felt really empty and then I keep praying and trying to talk to God, but I can’t feel him or the Holy Spirit. I’m scared because I feel like I’m going to hellwhat do I do? Also like as if he was on the cross and that they Holy Spirit is evil. Every form of blasphemy I feel like I’ve committed how do I fix this because now I feel empty and scared to go to hell
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