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I posted this thread in spirituality. I’m getting over an obsession of making too many promises to God. It became rediculous- I was so often making promises for stupid reasons, and not making them to please God. I was finally forbidden my my mother (and a priest!) to make anymore. The other day I ‘broke’ one of the promises that I had made before I was forbidden not too. I still feel like I’m offending God if I don’t hold to those previous promises. For clarity here’s an example of the foolish kinds of promises I’ve made.
Every promise has a threat. I want to go to the library but then I say: “I promise that if I go to the library today I wont go again for a month.” But then I might ‘break’ the promise and go to the library anyway. Then I’m terrified of going to the library after that because I broke that promise.
This is the nonsense I’m dealing with. God doesn’t really accept those kinds of promises, does he?

p.s. Someone please tell me I’m not crazy… 😦 😦 😦
 
Not “crazy”, but the behavior described does have echoes of OCD symptoms.

For milder things there are self-help strategies to deal with both particular things you want to change about yourself (e.g. going to the library less) and also the deeper issue of making these promises to yourself. It does sound like you need to take some more aggressive (direct) steps to try to break the habits, as they do appear to be causing you distress in carrying out “normal” activities.

If you decide you need more directed help, seeking professional help isn’t “crazy”. IMO, its crazy to avoid that help when one needs it. I’ve been to therapy myself, for minor things it sould be short term with clear goals and different tactic tried if initial steps don’t work.

But to answer your question, no, those sort of petty promises are not the sort of thing God is ticking off a list. He’s much more interested in you getting to a point where you can live a healthy life without that sort of needless worry.
 
But to answer your question, no, those sort of petty promises are not the sort of thing God is ticking off a list. He’s much more interested in you getting to a point where you can live a healthy life without that sort of needless worry.

That’s what I thought. But take a look, if you will, on my post about this in ‘Spirituality’ entiled ‘Another thread regarding the promise obsession: Weird happenings’. This is where all the fear came from.
 
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