If you are looking for a resource you can work through that will help you begin the process of going back into your story in order to go forward as a person and as a Christian, I have developed this journaling guide for you.

Doing the opposite of what OCD tells you to do makes you believe those false signals are actually false and provides emotional relief. Information alone cannot achieve that for you.

The more certainty you seek, however, the more anxious and uncertain you become. Why is that? That’s because OCD only throws you questions/dilemmas that can’t be perfectly answered and require you to take a leap of faith.

But so many people stall out at “white knuckling” past their anxiety and then grow weary and give up because nobody is lovingly pushing them hard enough to have emotionally transformative experiences that help them change their relationship with anxiety in a way that finally allows it to fade.

If your child is experiencing sudden-onset psychiatric symptoms after a recent illness or infection, the best path forward is to involve both a pediatrician and a therapist who specializes in anxiety and OCD.

The bottom line is that you can feel all types of ways about all types of things. That feeling, no matter how ominous, doesn’t make it any more true, and it doesn’t mean it’s from God.