I'm desperate - Please help me: Re: OCD and stubborn people

» vette85 - Re: OCD and stubborn people

Maber, I am a person who also has OCD who also happens to be a Christian. Part of what you have is one of the subtypes of OCD called "Purely Obcessional OCD". I recommend that you go to the www.ocdonline.com website and read the article called "Thinking the Unthinkable" article by Dr. Steven Phillipson along with the other articles by him dealing with purely obcessional ocd. I have dealt with a lot of the problems you have Maber, and running away will not help. Your ocd problems will follow you. Mellisa H. means well in her response to you, telling you to rebuke these thoughts. Our natural instinct is to try to suppress these thoughts. It is also harmful to look at these thoughts and see what they might signify about ourselves. By trying to stop these thoughts, you sensitize them and pretty soon you find that that is all you can think about and that they take up all your time. Again, I strongly recommend reading these articles. They contain a lot of the answers you are looking for as far as the "bad thoughts" you have.

-- posted by vette85