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Hello,

I am a healthy man, 32, drug and alcohol free for over five years. The only issue I face is with some disturbing cognitive issues, related to paranoid thoughts, etc.

Here is some of what I am going through:

1.) Accusations saying that I have done things that I have not done. Desire to confess sins that I have not actually committed.

2.) Disbelief that I have actually accomplished some of the things that I have in life. For example, I graduated from a certain college but have persistent thoughts telling me that I have not actually accomplished this and that I would be lying to say that I had.

3.) Constant living in the past: memories, fears, etc.

I am strongly considering going to talk to a professional therapist about these issues. I am in RCIA, and I tried to make an appointment with the priest of the parish, but he did not reply to my email. Did he think I was too strange or something?

On the outside, I appear to be quite normal. However, I have these cognitive disturbances which hinder my life somewhat, I fear.

Please pray for me, that God would provide the help I need, both through the Catholic Church and through counselors who can assist me.

Dan
 
dsully said:
Hello,

I am a healthy man, 32, drug and alcohol free for over five years. The only issue I face is with some disturbing cognitive issues, related to paranoid thoughts, etc.

Here is some of what I am going through:

1.) Accusations saying that I have done things that I have not done. Desire to confess sins that I have not actually committed.

2.) Disbelief that I have actually accomplished some of the things that I have in life. For example, I graduated from a certain college but have persistent thoughts telling me that I have not actually accomplished this and that I would be lying to say that I had.

3.) Constant living in the past: memories, fears, etc.

I am strongly considering going to talk to a professional therapist about these issues. I am in RCIA, and I tried to make an appointment with the priest of the parish, but he did not reply to my email. Did he think I was too strange or something?

On the outside, I appear to be quite normal. However, I have these cognitive disturbances which hinder my life somewhat, I fear.

Please pray for me, that God would provide the help I need, both through the Catholic Church and through counselors who can assist me.

Dan
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Your issues are mental, psychological, spiritual, perhaps a combination of the three, not cognitive. If you come to the Catholic Church for health, you might be in for a disappointment. God will give you the graces to accept your crosses, but if you expect optimal psychological, mental and spiritual health, I say you stand a better chance of winning the Powerball. Look at Mother Theresa, faithful, loyal disciple of Christ, utterly miserable for 40 years, Paul’s thorn etc. Your final destination is Heaven, look at everything God/the world sends your way as a huge sign of predilection, being happy here should be last on your list. The next 50-60 years of your life will go by in a flash, then you’ll hear the “Well-done, good and faithful servant”. Hang on.
 
Dear Dan,
There are many here that will reverently and continuously keep you in our prayers. Their are many here that will tell you of answered prayers. Many stories of how God brought them out of the darkness into the light. I myself have just been given the grace of clarity, knowledge and peace granted to me. There is not a shadow of doubt that it was from humble, loving, kind people praying for me to the Saints, Mary, Jesus and our Father here on CAF.

Memorare (Prayer to Our Lady)

Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary,
that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection,
implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto you, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother.
To you do I come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful.
O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions,
but in your mercy, hear and answer me.
Amen
 
Amen to Robert Anthony…
Not quilified to say anythng, but Dan, its tough being normal, to wonder and to question, even ourself… you might sense this to be a cross to bear is an over active mind of compunction.

To be positive about your situation, a greater fear is to not have your sense, and to not care, to be indifferent, and to be entrenched in self medicating yourself to escape from this Cross to bear by alchol or drugs. Your actually blessed with a gift, a gift that brings you humility, and that brings you , wisdom, the greatest of virtues.

Your mentioning of being persecuted, read the acts of the Apostles, they were thankfull for such in the name of their being Persecuted for following Jesus…

People the opposite of yourself live a world of Grandure that brings them to plow over others with no remorse or guilt, but more so a powertrip of domination, a true path to Hell, yet they would claim they are heaven bound because God has made them above all else.
they run people out of church as Martin Luthar did and bragg about it.
Thank God everyday your not that…
 
dsully said:
Hello,

I am a healthy man, 32, drug and alcohol free for over five years. The only issue I face is with some disturbing cognitive issues, related to paranoid thoughts, etc.

Here is some of what I am going through:

1.) Accusations saying that I have done things that I have not done. Desire to confess sins that I have not actually committed.

2.) Disbelief that I have actually accomplished some of the things that I have in life. For example, I graduated from a certain college but have persistent thoughts telling me that I have not actually accomplished this and that I would be lying to say that I had.

3.) Constant living in the past: memories, fears, etc.

I am strongly considering going to talk to a professional therapist about these issues. I am in RCIA, and I tried to make an appointment with the priest of the parish, but he did not reply to my email. Did he think I was too strange or something?

On the outside, I appear to be quite normal. However, I have these cognitive disturbances which hinder my life somewhat, I fear.

Please pray for me, that God would provide the help I need, both through the Catholic Church and through counselors who can assist me.

Dan
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As a person who has been “blessed” with chronic depression for at least 18 years now, I would urge you to see a qualified therapist, and also a psychiatrist, who may be able to suggest medication that would relieve you from these persistent thoughts. It’s not always necessary to take medications, and perhaps there are few good medications for your particular problem, but if there are meds, and you could take them while you are getting therapy, all that much better.

As for your priest, give him time, and when you have a chance, ask him about scruples. People sometimes have a tendency to obsess about sins, and worry that everything they do is somehow a mortal sin, and everything they don’t do is a sin of omission. Confessing a sin that you haven’t committed could be based in scruples.

But if you hear voices, I would seek therapy.

And I will put you into my prayers.

St. Dymphna, pray for us.
 
Thank you for the feedback and prayers.

They are much appreciated.

Dan
 
I have been asking St. Dymphna to intercede in my morning and evening prayers. I also have a tentative session scheduled with a counselor on Wed.

Dan
 
dsully said:
Hello,

I am a healthy man, 32, drug and alcohol free for over five years. The only issue I face is with some disturbing cognitive issues, related to paranoid thoughts, etc.

Here is some of what I am going through:

1.) Accusations saying that I have done things that I have not done. Desire to confess sins that I have not actually committed.

2.) Disbelief that I have actually accomplished some of the things that I have in life. For example, I graduated from a certain college but have persistent thoughts telling me that I have not actually accomplished this and that I would be lying to say that I had.

3.) Constant living in the past: memories, fears, etc.

I am strongly considering going to talk to a professional therapist about these issues. I am in RCIA, and I tried to make an appointment with the priest of the parish, but he did not reply to my email. Did he think I was too strange or something?

On the outside, I appear to be quite normal. However, I have these cognitive disturbances which hinder my life somewhat, I fear.

Please pray for me, that God would provide the help I need, both through the Catholic Church and through counselors who can assist me.

Dan
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You are not alone friend. You have OCD. You have the obsession part. Please get help. You can get therapy, preferably cognitive behavioral therapy, and meds. (Talk therapy does not work for OCD) It will get worse I am sorry to say. You don’t want to be in denial too long or it will manifest in compulsions. In my prayers…
 
dsully said:
I have been asking St. Dymphna to intercede in my morning and evening prayers. I also have a tentative session scheduled with a counselor on Wed.

Dan
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Please keep the appointment! Praying for you.

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dsully said:
I have been asking St. Dymphna to intercede in my morning and evening prayers. I also have a tentative session scheduled with a counselor on Wed.

Dan
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Excellent! Most of the folks here know the power of St. Dymphna. She has certainly helped me in the worst of times (I’m bipolar). I think seeking out professional help–esp. a psychiatrist–is very, very important for you to do right now. You might want to consider putting off dealing with your priest for a little bit. I’m only saying that because sometimes, when you have a lot on your plate, if you try to do everything at once, you only wind up frustrating yourself. (Good advice my shrink gave to me! 🙂 )

Saint Dymphna, I turn to you, dear virgin and martyr, confident of your power with God and of your willingness to take Dan’s cause into your hands. I praise and bless the Lord for giving you to us as patron of the nervous and emotionally disturbed. I firmly hope that through your kind intercession He will restore his lost serenity and peace of mind. May He speak to his heart and reassure him: “My peace I give you. Let not your heart be troubled nor let it be afraid.” Pray for him, dear St. Dymphna, that his nervous and emotional turmoil may cease, and that he may again know serenity and personal peace. Amen.

St. Dymphna, virgin and martyr, pray for him.
St. Dymphna, patroness of nervous and emotional illnesses, pray for him.
St. Dymphna, crowned for the glory in Heaven, pray for him.
St. Dymphna, faithful to your covenant with Christ, pray for him.
St. Dymphna, precious in the eyes of the Lord, pray for him.
St. Dymphna, our helper in every need, pray for him.
St. Dymphna, our friend at Heaven’s court, pray for him.
 
dsully said:
I have been asking St. Dymphna to intercede in my morning and evening prayers. I also have a tentative session scheduled with a counselor on Wed.

Dan
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That’s good news to hear. Why tentative? Mary.
 
Tentative because of insurance issues is all. If this therapist is not part of the group covered by my insurance, I might have to find somebody else.

Dan
 
dsully said:
Tentative because of insurance issues is all. If this therapist is not part of the group covered by my insurance, I might have to find somebody else.

Dan
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I understand. Just wondered if maybe you were nervous about going. Glad to hear that and hope that the therapist is part of the group.
Mary.
 
Saint Dymphna, I turn to you, dear virgin and martyr, confident of your power with God and of your willingness to take Dan’s cause into your hands. I praise and bless the Lord for giving you to us as patron of the nervous and emotionally disturbed. I firmly hope that through your kind intercession He will restore his lost serenity and peace of mind. May He speak to his heart and reassure him: “My peace I give you. Let not your heart be troubled nor let it be afraid.” Pray for him, dear St. Dymphna, that his nervous and emotional turmoil may cease, and that he may again know serenity and personal peace. Amen.

*St. Dymphna, virgin and martyr, pray for him.
St. Dymphna, patroness of nervous and emotional illnesses, pray for him.
St. Dymphna, crowned for the glory in Heaven, pray for him.
St. Dymphna, faithful to your covenant with Christ, pray for him.
St. Dymphna, precious in the eyes of the Lord, pray for him.
St. Dymphna, our helper in every need, pray for him.
St. Dymphna, our friend at Heaven’s court, pray for him. *
 
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