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Offline spouse of Jesus

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« on: April 09, 2010, 06:42:26 AM »
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  •    Please say prayers for me. I don't know for sure what is wrong with me, but I am having some symptoms like shaking of my hands and tremour in my voice, Sometimes a pain in my chest and change of my skin color to red (like when one is angry or shy) happens too.
       My body gets weak and then all these symptoms go away, making me think that it is gone. But it comes again.
       My soul is not any better, only despair and distrust.....


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    « Reply #1 on: April 09, 2010, 07:00:52 AM »
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  • Ok, will do  but in the meantime, see a doctor.


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    « Reply #2 on: April 09, 2010, 09:31:43 AM »
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  •  :pray: and love to you, Spouse.

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    « Reply #3 on: April 09, 2010, 12:52:24 PM »
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  •    Thanks both of you. Yes I must see a doctor.
     I wonder if any healing would ever happen...

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    « Reply #4 on: April 09, 2010, 01:10:19 PM »
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  • You are, as always, in my thoughts and prayers, sweet lady.  Hold fast, as you are much loved by God and men :)
    "Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is all man."


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    « Reply #5 on: April 09, 2010, 01:22:54 PM »
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  • You have my prayers too, Spouse.

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    « Reply #6 on: April 09, 2010, 01:53:31 PM »
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  • I will pray for you too.

    Do you think maybe it is symptoms of an anxiety attack?

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    « Reply #7 on: April 09, 2010, 03:32:11 PM »
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  • Or the symptoms of a spiritual assault?
    Readers: Please IGNORE all my postings here. I was a recent convert and fell into errors, even heresy for which hopefully my ignorance excuses. These include rejecting the "rhythm method," rejecting the idea of "implicit faith," and being brieflfy quasi-Jansenist. I also posted occasions of sins and links to occasions of sin, not understanding the concept much at the time, so do not follow my links.


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    « Reply #8 on: April 10, 2010, 02:19:40 AM »
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  •   Thanks again, and yes I wonder about both. Sure it is a nervous attack that can be called panic or anxiety attack etc. But I think something spiritual can be here too. Because one is full of anger, aggression and all kinds of foolishness and impatience when it happens. Despair and gloom also are an integral part of it.
      So, yes, may be it has something to do with spiritual side of a person.

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    « Reply #9 on: April 10, 2010, 04:10:12 AM »
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  • Spouse_of_Jesus said:
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    So, yes, may be it has something to do with spiritual side of a person.


    That's what I thought, but often I make assumptions about people that aren't correct.  So I am going slowly.  

    It is too bad you don't have a confessor because you would be able to tell him things you probably wouldn't share on a website, and hopefully he'd be able to help you.  

    It doesn't sound from what you've said that you are having a problem with guilt.  I know you have struggled with desires in the past, and been in danger of mortal sin.  But I think if you fell into a habit of mortal sin you would probably have much worse symptoms than you are having.  You'd probably be half insane.

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    "Because one is full of anger, aggression and all kinds of foolishness and impatience when it happens. Despair and gloom also are an integral part of it."


    You are probably very difficult and your nature is many-sided.  You strike me as quite neurotic.  But you must fight against all your weakness and self-indulgence.  Through the help of prayer, you have to mold yourself into what God likes -- uncomplaining, disciplined, patient, optimistic, accepting ( kind of the opposite of how you just described yourself! )  "Iron out" your neuroses.  Don't flatter yourself that they make you interesting, because they don't.  

    You have a dark side; if no one has told you that before, you're hearing it now!  Maybe this is something you don't want to face about yourself, but if you don't face it, God can't help you drive it away.  

    I think as a Catholic life is very simple; it is about longsuffering and patience.  God says "Be meek, take up your cross, and at the end of life, I will let you into heaven."  But maybe we don't want that.  We want more out of this life on Earth that we have right now.  It is incredibly difficult to actually accept that we are small, insignificant creatures living small, insignificant lives, and all that makes us BIG is that God potentially can give us immortality.  We want to do things our way, not His way, and are constantly fighting against Him.  This can lead to anxiety.

    Something like that may be going on with you.  You may be pushing against God.  Undoubtedly you are also dealing with boredom and despair over the state of the world and what is happening in the Church, and that is something all of us have to deal with.  But to have anxiety attacks seems like there is something in your personal life that is bothering you,  My guess is that you are resisting God's design for you somehow, even if it's just that He wants to give you peace but you prefer to burrow into your despair.  Maybe you are not satisfied living a peaceful, ordinary life, but you make things difficult for yourself so that God can then leap in and save you like Superman.  Maybe you have made yourself into a perpetual damsel-in-distress.

    I mean, what do you really have to despair about?  God has done you great favors, you have been given the gift of faith out of nowhere.  

    Readers: Please IGNORE all my postings here. I was a recent convert and fell into errors, even heresy for which hopefully my ignorance excuses. These include rejecting the "rhythm method," rejecting the idea of "implicit faith," and being brieflfy quasi-Jansenist. I also posted occasions of sins and links to occasions of sin, not understanding the concept much at the time, so do not follow my links.

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    « Reply #10 on: April 10, 2010, 07:53:35 AM »
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    You are probably very difficult and your nature is many-sided.  You strike me as quite neurotic.


      Actually, I was nervous and not calm at all from a very young age, as my mother remembers. Some members here know of my problem with it.

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     But I think if you fell into a habit of mortal sin you would probably have much worse symptoms than you are having.  You'd probably be half insane


      I occasionally fell into watching some dirty pictures and reading bad materials on-line using a proxy. I have a tendecy to gloomy sins (eg. despair, jealousy, anxiety) rather than "fun sins" as people call it. So when tempted, I give up hope, get angry and intolerable, mistrust God and others rather than indulge in the mortally sinful habbit in which many youth fall.



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    My guess is that you are resisting God's design for you


    Only if I know His design for me, (other than life and salvation)....

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    I mean, what do you really have to despair about?  God has done you great favors, you have been given the gift of faith out of nowhere.  


    You are right. But this is the problem with all nerous moments: you know sth is illogical, but you nevertheless feel it and act on it.