What is Scrupulosity?
Basically (and I mean basically – there is a bit more to this than I’m going into here) it’s where OCD gets Religious. It’s causes the sufferer to become obsessed with their faith and cause them to veer to the extreme’s of religious belief. The best way to describe it that I’ve read is that it causes people to try and live “holier than the pope”.
Many figures in the history of the reformation of the church seem to have suffered with it, most notably Martin Luther.
I suffer from Scrupulosity, it causes me a high level of anxiety and loss of sleep at times. I has also lead me to do things that the pre-scruplulosity me would never have done – attend church & read books pertaining to many religions and their practices.
Fortunately I am coming to terms with this aspect of my OCD and I’m getting somwhere in controling it.
I found this link the other day…..Spirituality & Mental Health……and although it doesn’t tackle Scrupulosity as a subject it does provide a method of using Spirituality to help your Mental Health and I have used it’s ideas to fight my Scrupulosity with some success. The article will be useful to anyone with a Mental Health condition as it is written with that in mind.
Rok on
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