In 76 I left school aged 16 and became a Christian, I didn’t know it at the time but I was suffering with OCD I thought the checking and cleaning also distressing sinful thoughts was my personality, it wasn’t til 1990 I found out I had OCD and that was just the begining.
In 78 I left church because of the stress from the thoughts.
In 1990 I went back to church and the nasty thoughts started again.
I’ve not left church and I’m still coming to terms with my thoughts and religious life it is only last year that I began to start coping and realising (very slowly) that I was not the worst sinner on the planet.
It has taken a good counsellor, psychiatrist, church and a very understanding wife to get me this far
