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Default Re: another OCD question

If you go dancing and get sexually aroused, than you should refrain from that. OCD is a sickness and they do have medication for it.

As for committing mortal sin, yes, you would be, because you are placing yourself in the environment, and if it really bothers you, why do you go to those places?

I would advise seeking a counselor because OCD will not go away by itself and stay away from those places that lead you into sin.

Pray about it and ask for God’s mercy.

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Hi Genesis12345
I am going to a psych for my ocd and have tried lots of medications but I get really sick or they don’t work. My priest and my faith help me more than talking with the psychologist. I don’t obsess about the dancing I just get tempted and want to go so my friends don’t help when they say that it is not wrong. They don’t understand that I can get carried away with the dancing and with bad thoughts. I do have ocd problems with the lustful thoughts. I tried to explain what happens in my first post. I agree with you that it is a mortal sin for me to go dancing. With the thoughts grandfather told me that I would know when I stop trying to not think about them. But I’m still not understanding when they become mortal sin. If I am trying to get rid of the thought but then I think about it for like seconds or a minute before trying again to get rid of it is this venial sin or mortal? I go to mass 4 times a week and so you see why I want to know for sure. I don’t want to be refraining from Holy Communion when it is not necessary.

 

[grandfather]

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Hi Genesis12345
I am going to a psych for my ocd and have tried lots of medications but I get really sick or they don’t work. My priest and my faith help me more than talking with the psychologist. I don’t obsess about the dancing I just get tempted and want to go so my friends don’t help when they say that it is not wrong. They don’t understand that I can get carried away with the dancing and with bad thoughts. I do have ocd problems with the lustful thoughts. I tried to explain what happens in my first post. I agree with you that it is a mortal sin for me to go dancing. With the thoughts grandfather told me that I would know when I stop trying to not think about them. But I’m still not understanding when they become mortal sin. If I am trying to get rid of the thought but then I think about it for like seconds or a minute before trying again to get rid of it is this venial sin or mortal? I go to mass 4 times a week and so you see why I want to know for sure. I don’t want to be refraining from Holy Communion when it is not necessary.

“We may conclude that persons who suffer from scruples are the most favored by divine love, and are the most certain of reaching Heaven when they bear this trial in patience and humility. Scrupulous souls suffer continually, they suffer perpetual purgatory, and so they leave this earth to fly to Heaven purified free from sins to expiate.” Blessed Henry Suso

 

[onmyknees]

Grandfather,
Thank you for all the beautiful prayers, and kind suggestions. I can pray all these prayers but when I just pray in my own words from the heart to Jesus I feel so comforted and I know that He is with me. He has helped me so many times. I am so blessed to have perpetual Adoration at my Church in a little chapel. I live only blocks away and many times at night I have been there alone with Him. I find myself sobbing and pouring out my heart to Him. You may wonder why I just don’t stop offending Him since I love Him so much. Well, sometimes I stop thinking about Him when I get really tempted by the worldly pleasures and then I fall.

 

[onmyknees]

“We may conclude that persons who suffer from scruples are the most favored by divine love, and are the most certain of reaching Heaven when they bear this trial in patience and humility. Scrupulous souls suffer continually, they suffer perpetual purgatory, and so they leave this earth to fly to Heaven purified free from sins to expiate.” Blessed Henry Suso

Hi Grandfather,
This is sooooo kind of you to find this quote! I can’t say I believe that it is true but it is comforting. I know that scrupulosity is very prideful because we are thinking about ourselves too much. We don’t have enough time left for our neighbor. I have to force myself to stop the selfish thoughts and then I can pray for all the others who need prayers.

 

[grandfather]

Hi Grandfather,
This is sooooo kind of you to find this quote! I can’t say I believe that it is true but it is comforting. I know that scrupulosity is very prideful because we are thinking about ourselves too much. We don’t have enough time left for our neighbor. I have to force myself to stop the selfish thoughts and then I can pray for all the others who need prayers.

“Scrupulous souls, forever tormented by doubts and anxiety have hearts which are ill prepared to receive Jesus Christ. In place of that peace which religion is meant to give, these souls make their lives miserable, full of trouble and temptation. Scrupulous people distress themselves in many ways; for, really they believe no one, and no counsel brings calm to their troubledsouls. They keep returning to their sins and doubts, and the more they think of them the more they aggravate the trouble”. Blessed Henry Suso

When Suso says this he is saying that love of God, God’s love, and fear can not be in the same place. “Perfect love drives out all fear”. This includes fear of offending God.

When a soul has no real sin, the devil whispers imaginary ones in your ear. The effect of sin is loss of peace. It makes us fear God and hide from Him. The fears of the scrupulous do the same thing.

Being scrupulous keeps us from experiencing God’s love. It cheats us out of it. Jesus does not want to wait until you get to heaven for you to know His love for you. He wants you to know it now. In heaven it will be greater, but now He wants you to have it.

In times past Christians practiced mortifications of their bodies. Scrupulosity is mortification of the soul. We beat ourselves bloody, spiritually. Maybe I am wrong, but it seems to me that if Jesus heals our souls, then He does not want us to cause more wounds there.

 

[Christy_Beth]

You might want to try some different meds. When my thoughts start getting to me, I take an anti-anxiety med. This particular one I can take up to three times a day. Plus there is another one that I take rregularly.
My thoughts aren’t usually the “lustful” kind. They usually get me very jittery. I won’t get into them, because I don’t want to bother anyone with them.

Are there any behaviors like rocking while sitting? I find myself doing that a lot. My therapist called it a “self-soothing behavior.” Also, I have a tendency to ask repeated questions about things. And that irritates people to no end!

 

[onmyknees]

Hi Christy Beth,

Are these anti-anxiety drugs addictive? I know someone who took Zanax and she can’t stop taking them now. I don’t want this to happen. I don’t rock myself but I am hyperactive. I do analyze things to death trying to make a decision. I have many other bad habits that I can’t seem to stop doing. My psychologist said that they are compulsive behaviors due to the ocd. I also drive people crazy with all my repetitive questions concerning many things that I’m am worried about. Not just sins. Thank you for your concern and suggestions.