The OCD Healing Journey Quotes

“Fear is a Liar! The narrator of OCD is constructed by fear. The alarmist narrative of fear needs to be exposed for the liar that it is. Yes”
― Mark DeJesus, The OCD Healing Journey: Getting to the Heart of Our Obsessive and Compulsive Struggles

“It can be a breath of fresh air to realize that you cannot control what thoughts arrive into your thinking. Just because a thought “shows up” doesn’t have to mean anything. This is where OCDers get lost right off the jump, because they amplify their control issues in attempts to get their mind right. When in reality, that pressurized approach makes things worse.”
― Mark DeJesus, The OCD Healing Journey: Getting to the Heart of Our Obsessive and Compulsive Struggles

“Jesus did not die on the cross and resurrect so that you and I would live a burden-filled life of never-ending torment.”
― Mark DeJesus, The OCD Healing Journey: Getting to the Heart of Our Obsessive and Compulsive Struggles

“OCD strugglers chase down thoughts they do not even need to acknowledge because a distorted personal responsibility is driving them to do so.”
― Mark DeJesus, The OCD Healing Journey: Getting to the Heart of Our Obsessive and Compulsive Struggles

“the OCD mind has a problem: they take their thoughts way too seriously and give their thoughts way too much power. Their internal response to thoughts is like a hair trigger.”
― Mark DeJesus, The OCD Healing Journey: Getting to the Heart of Our Obsessive and Compulsive Struggles

“The OCD mind doesn’t know there is a difference between a passing thought, a temptation, a thought that becomes a place of desired meditation and actually acting on the thought. In black-and-white perspectives, they believe that if the thought showed up, it means something about themselves. It drives something known in psychology as thought-action fusion. They believe that having a thought arrive is the same as acting on that thought.”
― Mark DeJesus, The OCD Healing Journey: Getting to the Heart of Our Obsessive and Compulsive Struggles

“When we find ourselves feeling trapped, stuck and hopeless in how we interpret our thoughts, it reveals we are listening to a line of thinking that does not come from God.”
― Mark DeJesus, The OCD Healing Journey: Getting to the Heart of Our Obsessive and Compulsive Struggles

“the greatest reality we can experience for mental health is the eternal love of God.”
― Mark DeJesus, The OCD Healing Journey: Getting to the Heart of Our Obsessive and Compulsive Struggles