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I thought I was bad for feeling like I should get back in the confessional line five minutes after confession, or for double and triple checking that my doors are locked when leaving on a trip. But after reading some of these posts, I feel pretty fortunate.
 
Have you noticed that the current rage of “Mindfulness” is simply the Serenity Prayer with God removed?

Yeah…
 
No I haven’t. what is "mindfulness’? I love the “serenity prayer”.
 
margaret42 said:
No I haven’t. what is "mindfulness’? I love the “serenity prayer”.
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It is yet another secular Buddhist-based “non-religious” attempt at dealing with the stresses of everyday life. One description was almost exactly the Serenity Prayer, but with God removed.
 
Has anyone here with OCD adopted St. Dymphna as their patron saint, whom they pray to for intercession with their obsessions and/or compulsions?

I just purchased a silver St. Dymphna Medal (the one without Satan behind St. Dymphna’s shoulder, which really creeps me out) from a company called Picturesongold.com and had it engraved/personalized. I was able to have “St. Dymphna Pray For Us” changed to “St. Dymphna Pray For Me.”
On the back I had “Please pray for my inner peace” engraved.

On one chain I have a silver Crucifix, silver Miraculous Medal, silver St. Jude Medal (for hopeless causes because I often feel hopeless) and my new St. Dymphna Medal. They really comfort me.

I once bought a different St. Dymphna medal but after I bought it I noticed Satan behind her shoulder so I never wore it and gave up on asking for her intercession but now I’m really looking toward her intercession.
 
Your left eyebrow is slightly higher than the right one. Please! I won’t have any peace until they’re exactly level…
 
I had very severe OCD. Now, I have learned how to think in the moment and distract myself and do some basic chores like cleaning.

I think reading a hymn, a psalm or the Bible is a great way to distract myself.

And live with JOY and pleasing others. What a great way to live.
 
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Has anyone here with OCD adopted St. Dymphna as their patron saint, whom they pray to for intercession with their obsessions and/or compulsions?

I just purchased a silver St. Dymphna Medal (the one without Satan behind St. Dymphna’s shoulder, which really creeps me out) from a company called Picturesongold.com and had it engraved/personalized. I was able to have “St. Dymphna Pray For Us” changed to “St. Dymphna Pray For Me.”
On the back I had “Please pray for my inner peace” engraved.

On one chain I have a silver Crucifix, silver Miraculous Medal, silver St. Jude Medal (for hopeless causes because I often feel hopeless) and my new St. Dymphna Medal. They really comfort me.

I once bought a different St. Dymphna medal but after I bought it I noticed Satan behind her shoulder so I never wore it and gave up on asking for her intercession but now I’m really looking toward her intercession.
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Anyone?
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Unlearning? Making the habits we now have as OCD, which seem normal, become abnormal as we stop the symptoms? and that is good!
 
Someone says, “I have this thing, um, called OCD”. And the onlooker will say, “uh huh”!
 
margaret42 said:
Someone says, “I have this thing, um, called OCD”. And the onlooker will say, “uh huh”!
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Hey, many years ago, after I’d been diagnosed, I switched therapists due to cost, and on my first visit to the new therapist I told her I was there because I have OCD and she actually asked me, “What’s OCD?”

In all fairness, she was young, new, inexperienced and I think she was still working toward her Masters, but still…

Another period of time I was seeing an LCSW, I think, along with a psychiatrist for medication. I was also suffering from GAD then, too. The LCSW was a Social Worker who did psychotherapy and recommended a certain medication (forget the name now) and she told me to talk to my psychiatrist about putting me on it.
So, in I go, into his office and suggested taking the medication the LCSW recommended. He looked stunned and said that he can’t put me on that because that for patients who are “psychotic and delusional.”
This stupid Social Worker who had no business treating Anxiety Disorders knew nothing about them and I guess she thought she was equal to a psychiatrist.
 
Have you found a good med doctor by now who will know what they’re prescribing?
 
And when you think about confessing sins, the whole point is to be forgiven and have peace. Do you think Jesus wants us to lose our minds in trying to give a 50-minute detailed confession?. I learned that he doesn’t.
 
Just figured it out-“generalized anxiety disorder”. I have this, and take klonopin for it.
 
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