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What Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is not:
•Liking things clean.
•Liking things organized.
•Liking things symmetrical.
•A personality trait or quirk.
•usually whatever a person is referring to when they say, “oh em gee I’m soooo OCD”
•cute
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•Liking things clean.
•Liking things organized.
•Liking things symmetrical.
•A personality trait or quirk.
•usually whatever a person is referring to when they say, “oh em gee I’m soooo OCD”
•cute
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What OCD is:
1. A disorder characterized by an intolerance for uncertainty. It has two components: obsessions and compulsions.
a) obsessions are distressing, egodystonic thoughts or images that get stuck on a loop in a person’s mind. Examples:
1. A disorder characterized by an intolerance for uncertainty. It has two components: obsessions and compulsions.
a) obsessions are distressing, egodystonic thoughts or images that get stuck on a loop in a person’s mind. Examples:
•What if blasphemed the Holy Spirit?
•What if I accidentally ran over someone?
•Phrases like: “F you, Jesus” or “I worship Satan”
•What if I stab my child with a kitchen knife?
•What if I accidentally ran over someone?
•Phrases like: “F you, Jesus” or “I worship Satan”
•What if I stab my child with a kitchen knife?
b) compulsions are odd and excessive behaviors a person engages in order to neutralize their anxiety by trying to *make sure* their thoughts aren’t true—aren’t a monstrous person who has done or will do or wants to do a monstrous thing. Examples:
• staying out of the kitchen to avoid stabbing your child
•retracing your route home from work every day to look for any bodies you may have run over
• excessive googling of what “blaspheming the Holy Spirit” means & constantly asking others if they think you have done it.
•retracing your route home from work every day to look for any bodies you may have run over
• excessive googling of what “blaspheming the Holy Spirit” means & constantly asking others if they think you have done it.
2. OCD can manifest in an endless variety of obsessions and compulsions. No two people’s content is identical.
3. A lot of people delay or NEVER get help b/c they’re afraid the police or DCS will be called. Sadly, this does sometimes happen due to a lack of knowledge about OCD.
3. A lot of people delay or NEVER get help b/c they’re afraid the police or DCS will be called. Sadly, this does sometimes happen due to a lack of knowledge about OCD.
4. OCD is difficult to fight. It requires constantly embracing the possibility, however slight (even .0000000001 in a trillion), that you are a monster. You have to say to that fear, “Ok crazy brain, maybe so. But I’m going to focus on making this sandwich and go on with my day.”
5. Some people with OCD need medication to help them fight. I do. And many need counseling. I did. Utilizing tools to help you as you fight live a more fruitful life is not shameful, it’s smart. Do what you need to do, regardless of what anyone says.
6. OCD, in my experience, is most effectively fought through radical trust in the grace of God in Christ. He who already gave his Son for me (the costliest thing he could do) promises to be with me & help me, *even if* the worst happens. So I trust him.
I try to, at least.
I try to, at least.
