Guest guest Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 For any of you dealing with scrupulosity you might want to look at Chapter 24 in 'The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing'. It's called 'A 1000 Committments to God'and deals with an OCD teen who had made promises to God and couldn't break them (causing lots of problems of course). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Thanks Lynnelle, that's what we are dealing with!! > > For any of you dealing with scrupulosity you might > want to look at Chapter 24 in 'The Boy Who Couldn't > Stop Washing'. It's called 'A 1000 Committments to > God'and deals with an OCD teen who had made promises > to God and couldn't break them (causing lots of > problems of course). > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 20, 2007 Report Share Posted March 20, 2007 Sandy, Thanks for the suggestions. It is counter-intuitive to force yourself to think those thoughts, but I can see that they would eventually lose their power. Like you, I wish that my son was willing to tackle them but scrupulosity Hi, Bre will be seeing Dr. this week for meds. I hope she can get back on top of her ocd soon. She also has problems with scrupulosity. Her therapist had her do exposures on it by agreeing with the bad thoughts. God won't ever forgive me, He will send me to hell, I do love the devil. She habituated to the thoughts and now the thoughts do not scare her. She did this slowly with her therapist. It is hard because we are taught not to have those thoughts about God. But ocd gets in the way!! I just hope she can get her anxiety under control to start working on her exposures again. Sandy ________________________________________________________________________________\ ____ Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Answers Food & Drink Q & A. http://answers./dir/?link=list & sid=396545367 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 20, 2007 Report Share Posted March 20, 2007 Oops! That last email shot off before I was finished. Anyway, was just saying I wish he was willing to really work on it too. Thanks! scrupulosity Hi, Bre will be seeing Dr. this week for meds. I hope she can get back on top of her ocd soon. She also has problems with scrupulosity. Her therapist had her do exposures on it by agreeing with the bad thoughts. God won't ever forgive me, He will send me to hell, I do love the devil. She habituated to the thoughts and now the thoughts do not scare her. She did this slowly with her therapist. It is hard because we are taught not to have those thoughts about God. But ocd gets in the way!! I just hope she can get her anxiety under control to start working on her exposures again. Sandy ________________________________________________________________________________\ ____ Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Small Business. http://smallbusiness./domains/?p=BESTDEAL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2007 Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 Hi - thanks for the links - I'll check them out! Joy > > Hi Joy! > > My son (18) read your note over my shoulder and agreed that some > sounded like scrupe issues. (he is greatly suffering from > scrupulosity now) > > The issues with scrupulosity - the type of thoughts, fears, etc. - > can vary with each person. With my son it seemed to begin with all > these promises/vows he made to God. Just impulsive type, dare I > say: " stupid " , promises, very illogical, no reasoning or thought > behind them really. So the problem became with keeping them. > > Still a problem with the vows, but he also has blasphemous thoughts; > won't tell me detail. But he's convinced now he won't go to heaven > and THAT is just really making him suffer & angry. Spends a lot of > time praying (it looks like). A mean thought about someone upsets > him, shouldn't have it, etc. SIGH, lists goes on. > > I suffered as a teen a bit from scrupe too, but not in any of the > ways my son has (at least not most, he's not very talkative). He's > triggered mine a bit since this came up about a year ago. But for > me, I can shrug it off pretty easily. He can't quite separate the > OCD from what's *him* ( " what if it's ME and not OCD making me think > that " etc.) > > Here's some links on the topic. You might have researched already > but maybe there's one you haven't yet seen: > > http://www.lrwalker.net/article_whatisscrup.htm > http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=7431 > http://www.anxietyandstress.com/ocdreligionandscrupulosity.html > > Years ago when OCD began, had more touching, repeating type > things. I think there were " thoughts " but there didn't seem to be > any bad ones. But watching his face, you could tell he > was " thinking " something. Anyway, no real scrupe issues back then. > Little things like being honest or not wanting to cheat and he > wouldn't let me " reward " him for trying to fight his OCD (he said it > wasn't rewarding, it was bribing!). > > > single mom, 3 sons > , 18, with OCD, dysgraphia and Aspergers(autism/mild) > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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