The 4 Stages of Scrupulosity Recovery
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- If you’re looking for Biblical teachings on how to overcome religious OCD (aka scrupulosity), you’re in the right place. I’m a follower of Jesus Christ and I’ve struggled with religious OCD myself. I have three degrees in theological specializations, so I approach this topic purely from a spiritual perspective, but I recognize that religious OCD has a considerable amount of overlap between spirituality and psychology. While I support and strongly recommend medical/psychological interventions, it is outside the scope of my expertise to offer psychological counseling of any kind. The information provided on my channel is not intended to be used as a substitute for professional diagnosis and treatment, but rather for educational and informational purposes only.
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Thank you and praise God for you xx
I’m glad to connect with you. Many people outside of the faith will offer some ungodly advice, even blaming your faith as the “cause” of your OCD. Thanks be to God for your faith and courage to become a Light to follow, a trail marker. God bless you!
Scrupulosity treatment becoming a compulsion is something that hits home. "Oh you're not watching OCD videos? Does that mean you don't care about your problems enough?" It sure is tricky.
Excellent Jaimie! I love this. I love that you applied these stages to OCD. 💙
Sometimes I find it difficult to read the Bible, physical Bibles are difficult to understand for me. I usually use the audio Bible of Public reading of scripture in Spanish, reading plans of 365 days or 20 minutes, but a lot of chapters are too long and a lot of verses, like 30, 50, 60 verses from old testament and new testament. I find it difficult to enjoy devotionals, Bible studies, daily reading. And I know God loves me, he wants my salvation, he saved me during 2020 in pandemic. But I feel if I make another enjoyable activities like watching Netflix, listening music, playing videogames, drawing before reading the Bible God will get angry at me, I'll be sinning into Idolatry, disobedience or I can have spiritual accidents. A lot of times I feel like a bad Christian. My OCD makes me terrified of some Biblical passages like gospel parables, Hebrews, the Torah, Proverbs, 2 of Peter about false prophets, Judah, Jacob (In spanish is called Santiago). I also feel terrified about God's discipline for Christians, sin consequences, etc. I get anxious and frustrated when I see other people are able to listen God’s voice, having great devotionals, enjoying other secular activities without getting terrified.
You sound
like me. Read 2 Corinthians 5. The chapter. We have been mixing law and grace. It says in colossians we are forgiven all trespasses. If you need to .... look up the definition of all and write it down.
Hi my name Jc lately this week I been having this mix emotions my background I suffered with parents narcissism trauma and they used the Bible to put fear in me due there control and manipulation making me feel like my sins were causing my parents to be unhappy and i suffered a lot I only wanted my parents to accept me as there son I’m not a monster 😢 I finally decided to go no contact I blocked them but it hurts me I feel isolated alone and guilt trips thank u all for sharing
Hi little brothers cheer up 🌸in its time all will be well 💕I encourage you to read the book Love secrets by John Mark Pantana he explains about both Covenants The law of works n the gospel of Grace there is Hope His name is Jesus Christ our Lord n he love you both dearly ❤️🙏
One of things important to remember is that the ACT of reading the Bible will not bring you salvation. Salvation comes from God, by Jesus, by faith.
One way of enjoying secular things in the middle of OCD and anxiety is feeling grateful about them. Imagination is a gift from God. The fact that people can do art is a gift from God. If you feel anxiety about enjoying regular daily life things, you can try to thank God about them. Although be careful, "thank you" prayers can become a nee compulsion, if they become something you constantly say (speaking from experience).
@@JC.714hi do you need to talk? if you need to talk you can reach out to me or anyone you can trust. I’m sorry you feel this way friend. Please know that you are not alone, as Jesus loves you no matter what and He is walking with you in this journey
Thank you so much for this Jaimie, I am still in the conscious stage and feel comforted by hearing yo aptly describe it. It's encouraging to know it will get better!
The conscious/unconscious thing sounds like where a lot of athletes start to break down when they encounter the yips. I'm used to their manifestations in baseball, where Jon Lester and Mackey Sasser come to mind.
Also, your deck is a fantastic filming location!
Sometimes talks about mental health can sometimes trigger me and make me fearful. This didn’t and it obviously helps that you’re a Christian but this sounds very biblical. Reminded me of verse of renewing my mind and casting down every imagination against. That kind of sounds like step 3 of actively thinking out the truth and aligning the conscious effort to do so.
Excellent, thank you
Truly thank you 😊
I recently went through i think stage 1-3 ( mini stage 3) of recovery and i started feeling good but now i feel like the inner me feels different in terms of the things i used to believe..but at the same time it feels like its coming from my brain and my brain makes me feel like its my true self. I feel like i lost myself , like i dont even have a backbone to stand for what i truly believe in. My brain constantly makes me feel like ive been lying to myself all along. Like i was believing only because i am afraid of being punished. I also dnt feel much fear anymore. It feels as though i dont care anymore although i care and i am afraid of doing wrong. It almost feels as though i dnt have a conscience anymore sometimes but i do feel guilty once in a while. But its been tough to feel like this even after i felt relieved that i am aware that it was scrupulousity. Now im dealing with finding out what i my true thoughts and feelings coz they feel more real than before and i cnt differentiate between my thoughts and the bad thoughts. I also feel as though i think like all the negative people in the world. All those who question God and ask unreasonable questions about God and everything that is going on in this world. I used to see all these on social media and now i feel as though i think like them and it feels so real. Is it normal to just change like that or its just another scrupulousity attack since i am aware of it. Anyone ever felt like all your feelings and all christian values you had dnt hold a special value in your life anymore . Like you feel like you are an unbeliever all of a sudden and you agree with all the wrong things although deep down you still want to hold on to the word. Is it one of the scrupulosity attacks or something..#2 Bible reading being so difficult too. So is it common to feel strange feelings when you have to read it or listen to sermons? Why does it feel like doing other things are more enjoyable than feeding your soul with the word of God. How to get rid of such strange feelings even if you are away that this is scrupulosity. The feelings feel like theyre your true self and the shame of knowing it could be your trueself.
Hi there, I relate to some parts of this, including how you don’t know if your bad scrupulous thoughts are your actual thoughts- if I understood that correctly. I know it’s difficult to love hid way. If it helps, one thing I try to tell myself is that God knows our hearts more perfectly. He knows so much more than we ever could. So he sees and knows the little things, like the fact that we care and we don’t want to be this way. If you need to talk, you can talk to me here ☺️ please please take care of yourself and try to fight the urge and remember that God us wonderful and omnipotent and we might not know exactly everything😅
I don't know what to do with my intrusive thoughts they are so horrible I just don't know what to do I pray every day and I just don't know why I can't calm down knowing that God has forgiven me I am just so frustrated 😭
Jamie, how do get in group. I think you have Tuesday and Thursday group?
Im stuck in 2.5. Ohhh compulsions... truth time radio... compulsive bible reading.. im older