Five Keys to Beating Scrupulosity
OCD with Religious Themes
What is scrupulosity and what can be done to overcome it? In this webinar recording, Ted Witzig Jr. shares real hope and practical helps with those who struggle with scrupulosity OCD and those who love them. He walks through five practical keys including:.
- Understanding faith, doubt, and uncertainty
- Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) skills to beat scrupulous symptoms
- Effective support and using the 85% rule
- Implementing exposure and response prevent (ERP) in OCD with religious and spiritual themes
- Self-compassion and combating shame
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Five Keys to Beating Scrupulosity PDF
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Thank you so much for helping me to understand what’s going on with my grandson.
My heart breaks for him but after seeing your video I can help him a little better.
I knew something wasn’t right with how I was thinking, and had a hard time ever feeling at peace, but since it had the covering of “religion,” I accepted it. Thank you so much for opening my eyes to healthy and unhealthy Christian thinking. I look forward to watching the other articles/ videos on scrupulosity (a word I wasn’t familiar with before!). God bless you! Karen
Really good video with good points, such as “Faith is what you believe, not what you feel.” Thank you for making this available.
Thank you. Love your site, love your resources!
Thank you. I have been afflicted for 3 decades. I’m reaching out and God is answering in unexpected ways. He truly is showing me compassion that I’ve always felt for others but never myself. I found your site by finally asking myself, “what does God think of my OCD?” I came to the knowledge that I’ve been suffering OCD because I was researching for my kid. Instead, I found myself relating more and more to the symptoms. Thank you for this ministry.
Thank you so much. I am so thankful that I found this. I have been struggling for years and it hurts so badly. It’s so confusing, and finally, this makes me understand what I am struggling with a little bit better. I feel like there is hope.
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