{"id":1486,"date":"2023-09-09T13:00:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/09\/individual-describes-how-god-helped-him-overcome-ocd-and-pornography\/"},"modified":"2023-09-09T13:00:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T13:00:51","slug":"individual-describes-how-god-helped-him-overcome-ocd-and-pornography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/09\/individual-describes-how-god-helped-him-overcome-ocd-and-pornography\/","title":{"rendered":"Individual Describes How God Helped Him Overcome OCD and Pornography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_content\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"article-byline has-tools\">\n<div class=\"article-tools\"><a href=\"#cp-talk\" class=\"has-number talk-cp-255426\" data-scrollto=\".viafoura\" aria-label=\"Go to comments\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/assets\/img\/icon\/chat-rect.svg\" alt=\"\"\/><span class=\"number\"\/><\/a><a href=\"\" class=\"js-share\" aria-label=\"Share\" id=\"share-btn\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/assets\/img\/icon\/share-outline.svg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<figure class=\"img-box align-center center\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><picture width=\"760\" height=\"443\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/images\/cache\/image\/15\/02\/150223_w_760_443.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/images\/cache\/image\/15\/02\/150223_w_760_443.png\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" width=\"760\" height=\"443\"\/><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption\"><span class=\"photo-des\">David Pauta shares his Christian testimony in a Sept. 5, 2023 episode of Delaf\u00e9 Testimonies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> | <span class=\"credit\">Screengrab: YouTube\/ Delaf\u00e9 Testimonies <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Christian man who battled Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and a pornography addiction recently recounted how God delivered him from both problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>David Pauta shared in an <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/E2gpXhqqTwg?si=ntnqaHKAvQXASsF7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">episode<\/a> of Delaf\u00e9 Testimonies posted on YouTube Tuesday how fully surrendering his life to God in prayer led to his freedom from porn addiction and OCD.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pauta said he was introduced to the Gospel at age 8, during church services he attended with his mother, who had converted to Christianity in 2009 and was fascinated with Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to Pauta, when he turned 10, his life took a turn for the worse when he began to develop &#8220;obsessive thoughts and tormenting thoughts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With OCD, a lot of times, it&#8217;s like patterns or numbers or just things that you obsess over, and then you&#8217;re compelled to do,\u201d Pauta explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMine had a lot to do with even numbers and like touching things. So, for example, if I picked up a remote, I had to pick it up twice. I always had to do stuff an even [number] of times,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;If I closed the doorknob, I had to close it twice.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn&#8217;t ruining my day. It&#8217;s just like an extra little task I had to do, and I didn&#8217;t even know why I had to do it if I&#8217;m being honest. But I just knew if in the moment, if I didn&#8217;t, I didn&#8217;t feel right.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"He Overcame OCD &amp; Pornography After Doing This!! \ud83d\ude33\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E2gpXhqqTwg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Pauta said that while his OCD started off as &#8220;more innocent stuff,&#8221; the more he gave into the habits the more severe his condition became.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;d have just these fears if I don\u2019t do this certain pattern or if I don\u2019t lock my door four times. Let\u2019s say I locked it five times, now I got to lock it six times, &#8217;cause it\u2019s an even number or something bad was going to happen,\u201d Pauta shared.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just had this worry of, if I didn\u2019t do the \u2026 rituals, that something bad was going to happen, like I would get sick. \u2026 It\u2019s just these lies that the devil whispers in your ear, that something really bad is going to happen.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pauta said that whenever he did not perform his OCD rituals, he would enter a &#8220;full-blown panic [attack].&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Pauta, he first realized how severe his OCD was becoming when, as a child preparing for soccer practice, he struggled to put on his socks in the specific way his OCD required him to do it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething that took me, even with my OCD, probably two minutes, I was probably putting on my socks for 45 minutes to an hour and I was crying,\u201d Pauta recounted.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn that moment, I was like, \u2018I am a slave to this. \u2026 This is not normal.\u2019 I felt so weird. I knew this wasn\u2019t even a common thing. I didn\u2019t know it was called OCD. I just knew that I was crying over not putting my socks on the proper way. And I was having a panic attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pauta struggled alone for many years because his parents were unaware of his OCD and he coped with the stress by watching porn, which he became addicted to at age 12.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe worst it ever got was this one night where I had to do a certain thing, OCD ritual, before I go to bed. OCD, a lot of times, will make you do stuff, in order to do other stuff. So, if I want to go out, I have to do this first. If I want to go to bed, I have to do this first. \u2026 Mine had a lot to do with numbers and tapping things,\u201d Pauta said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to do this weird thing, where I tap the floor a certain amount of times before I go to bed, in a particular way, where it\u2019s like, each time you tap, it\u2019s more pressure with your hands. And as I was doing it, that one night, it was crazy. I had done it before and done it in a way where I was like, \u2018OK, I feel peace to go to bed.\u2019 But this night, I couldn\u2019t get it right. \u2026 And I was in complete agony.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pauta said he continued trying to complete the ritual properly until 4 a.m., and when he couldn&#8217;t get it right he began to have a panic attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was crying. It reminded me so much of when I was putting on the socks. I just wanted to sleep. I remember saying, \u2018I just want to go to bed,\u2019\u201d Pauta recalled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was so tormenting. And, basically, while I was doing it, my mom, she sorta saw me. She didn\u2019t know what was going on. She didn\u2019t see me doing so much the OCD thing. She just saw that I was in complete panic, hyperventilating, crying.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pauta said his mother insisted that he tell her what was going on with him, with him believing that God wanted her to be there at that moment so he would be willing to talk to her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI pretty much just opened up about everything that I had been going through for the last three years and she was very compassionate,\u201d Pauta said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just told her, \u2018Mom, I have these obsessive thoughts. I have these patterns that I can\u2019t go to bed unless I do this. I can\u2019t go to soccer unless I do this. And I didn\u2019t know what it was, but, all I know in that moment is that we prayed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The next morning, Pauta said he woke up and everything felt different.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t so much that every single thought you ever had goes away. It\u2019s more the compulsion goes away of like, \u2018Oh, I don\u2019t need to do that. I\u2019m not going to die if I don\u2019t do that,&#8217;\u201d Pauta said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of a sudden, I just knew I was free. And the best way I can explain it is that I knew that Jesus was the one who had freed me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After finding healing, Pauta said he still continued to battle with porn addiction for a few years, until he cried out to God in prayer one day and he also received deliverance from this addiction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was Sept. 27, 2020. That was the last time I ever watched porn. I\u2019ve been walking with the Lord ever since. But that was the moment where I had seen Jesus do the impossible,&#8221; Pauta said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I started to really pray, I started to realize God was just freeing me from not just that addiction, but the things that come with it, which is a lot of hurt, brokenness, depression.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article_credit\">\n<p><em>Nicole Alcindor is a reporter for The Christian Post.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"eoa_freedom_post\">\n<h2><span>Free<\/span> Religious Freedom Updates<\/h2>\n<p>Join thousands of others to get the <strong>FREEDOM POST<\/strong> newsletter for free, sent twice a week from The Christian Post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/man-shares-how-god-delivered-him-from-ocd-pornography.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Pauta shares his Christian testimony in a Sept. 5, 2023 episode of Delaf\u00e9 Testimonies.\u00a0\u00a0 | Screengrab: YouTube\/ Delaf\u00e9 Testimonies A Christian man who battled Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and a pornography addiction recently recounted how God delivered him from both problems.\u00a0 David Pauta shared in an episode of Delaf\u00e9 Testimonies posted on YouTube Tuesday how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}