Ocd Help

[PeteZaHut]

I have Tourett’e Syndrome, which I am told is closely realted to OCD. I have never had any serious OCD symptoms until recently. I have been very stressed out with a busy senior year in high school, applying to college, etc.

My problem is that I have to write down every little tiny thing that I can think of that might be a sin. I will write down things from years ago just in case I didn’t confess them before.

I think it would be really healthy for my to throw away this giant pile of sticky notes that I have will all this stuff I have written down. Would it be wrong for be to throw away these sins I have and I will probably forget a lot of them? Not all of them are tiny little sins. Some need to be confessed. Can I just wait and do an honest examination of conscience before confession, even if I will forget stuff? In general, is it okay for me to stop writing down sins and just examine my conscience later? My list also has a coule things where I am debating whether I had a firm purpose of amendment in previous confessions. The list also has some things I should probably do that might have a penalty of sin if I don’t.

Can I throw this all away!???

Kind of a side note: If I make an honest confession and say “any sins I may have forgotten,” I know I am forgiven. What if the next day, I remember a mortal sin from before the confession. Do I have to confess it?

 

[stringbeanduck]

Here is my advice: Do a proper examination of your conscience and find all the sins mortal and venial and write them down. Copy the sins down on 1 sheet of paper, then through away the stickys. Try to be sure if that they are sins too. Take you time. Talk to the priest and say that you have remembered as many sins as you can remember. Don’t stress about ‘did I remember every single sin’. Just do a proper examination of the conscience like I said.

Kind of a side note: If I make an honest confession and say “any sins I may have forgotten,” I know I am forgiven. What if the next day, I remember a mortal sin from before the confession. Do I have to confess it?

Not too sure, ask the priest that when you make your reconciliation.

 

[mommyof4]

op, please got to this site: mission.liguori.org/newsletters/archives.htm#SA

and read through the examination of conscience for the scrupulous.