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Wanting God'S Help To Give Me Full Certainty So That I Don'T Do Wrong
I have severe OCD. The solution I have come up with is to not indulge in my thoughts anymore but to simply ask God to give me such guidance that I have full, intuitive, certainty of something being wrong and only then can I stop doing doing it because otherwise, it is very hard to live a functional life that is free of unnecessary stress.
Since God doesn’t want us to be in hell but to be in heaven, I keep this as the basis that He will help me the way I need.
This solve my OCD and let’s me live a peaceful and functional life
But the following video by sir Ghamidi makes me doubt about my approach
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Wanting God'S Help To Give Me Full Certainty So That I Don'T Do Wrong
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Full certainty comes with a thought process. Still, it is not tangible or explicit enough to remove all doubts. This is a test to believe through reasoning. There is no absolute proof to end all doubts.
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I am talking about finding out if certain thing is wrong or not. For example, I obsessed over a whole month over whether keeping a beard is mandatory or not, wasting the whole month with stress and dysfunction. So if I just rely on my thought process, it is problematic and OCD affected mind isn’t reliable, so I can’t do this anymore, even the scholars aren’t the ultimate proof of something being true or not and can’t fully rely on them, what can a person do in this case? Also, if I start thinking, I would go deep into things and overthink everything. The only case seems is to get help from God, don’t know how and what kind of help.
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the solution you have come up with in itself seems like a psychological compulsion ( the C of OCD). Your solution is indicative of your OCD. Moreover if you can not rely on your thought process, how can you rely on the solution that you have deduced from the same thought process. You must see a psychologist.
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You are right. I am sorry for not being fully clear. OCD mind is not reliable when it comes to fear-responses, for the rest I can rely on it. It is basically gives false alarms and creates self-doubt. The same way a computer that gives false alarms can’t be relied on in this regards, the OCD affected mind can’t be either, for fear responses. It is the truth that no one can deny, a false alarm system isn’t reliable when it comes to its alarms
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I understand OCD. It is basically an intolerability to uncertainty. The solution is not to eliminate uncertainty ( as most people with OCD try to do) but to somehow being indifferent to it. Your solution aims at entirely eliminating the doubt via divine help. From a theological perspective, it is not a very sound approach. regardless, you should focus on psychological not theological aspects.
Like a person can have OCD where he has thoughts whether he has closed the door or not. A person with OCD generally tries to remove this by checking the doors again or asking from other, hence trying to remove uncertainty and indulging in reassuring behaviors. But this makes it worse. You are trying to do the same,i.e., eliminating uncertainty via divine intervention. You need not to do that and nor will it happen. You need to stop ‘caring’ about the problem; you need to stop ‘solving’ it, since it’s not a real problem but a ‘false positive’
so if it is very intrusive and hinders your daily task, consult a psychiatrist.
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Makes sense. Thanks for the help
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