how do you get over religious ocd

[wildflowers1996]

I know that chances are religion is just manipulative and there's no hell

but my brain is just torturing me

whenever I try to tell myself hell isn't real my brain just goes something like "the devil is making you believe this you're going to die unsaved and go to hell for not believing/ doing x"

 

[Ambivalent1]

What helped me was learning why the religion wasn't true

 

[divinemistress36]

Reading what psychic mediums have said about death and people who have had ndes and how there is no hell has helped me

 

[Yoyo_honeybee]

If you don't mind sharing which religion that would be helpful as I can give more specific advice but totally fine if you don't want to - I myself prefer not to talk about my family religion on forums.

I struggled a lot with religious OCD, I'm not religious anymore, I'm agnostic and searching but I have a much better idea of how to handle it.

The first is to remember that God is merciful and loving and wants peace for you, especially if you believe in them, so the torture you're feeling from the OCD is not from God but from the devil trying to take you away from God. Sometimes, I do still engage in religious practices and find the OCD creeping back, and I shut it down, saying that God won't mind if I don't do the practice 'properly' because I have an illness (OCD) and am still trying. I think reminding myself that the nagging feeling and OCD isn't from God and that God values effort over perfection helps me. It's also important to see if you can address it in other ways, I found my religious OCD when at it's worst was due to undiagnosed mental illnesses and learning to deal with those has helped.

 

[hermestrimegistus]

I've been in a similiar position. I'm not one who should be giving advice on it. But personally I found accepting that hell is real instead of trying to deny it helped me a little. Still struggled. But instead of fearing an afterlife of hell I started to realize maybe this right now is hell. And if I'm already in it, the worst is over. No spooky afterlife to fear. But then also the fear that this is eternal reccurence and it will never end also terrifies me. I'm sorry haha I probably didn't help at all. Still struggling with it myself

 

[DepressedDude]

All Religions are fake. This is one of the reasons I want to die because it was the only thing that made life make any sense for me. After praying for like 30 years and never having any thing happen plus all the evil stuff in the world it's just all stupid evil humans doing bad stuff.

The voices might be psychosis/schizophrenia or something else. I used to have it for a while but it's gone now once I woke up to how pointless existence is.

 

[hopeless08]

I know that chances are religion is just manipulative and there's no hell

but my brain is just torturing me

whenever I try to tell myself hell isn't real my brain just goes something like "the devil is making you believe this you're going to die unsaved and go to hell for not believing/ doing x"

I also have those thoughts sometimes, I'll say out loud (and I'm even scared to say it now) I'm so angry with you god and I don't care about you anymore but then in the back of my mind I'm like, shit what if he does something worse to me and then again I'd say that he can't make me suffer more than I am now, if that makes sense.