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	What is Scrupulosity?
		However, for those with scrupulosity, religion becomes compulsive, joyless and a source of anxiety and stress.
		Scrupulosity, a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), is an over-concern for doing things correctly or perfectly in order to follow religious practices, to please God, or to avoid disrespect from others or from one’s own self.
		With scrupulosity, there is less awareness that the obsessions are of an irrational nature because they are so closely related to their belief system and are intertwined in the individual’s religious life.
	www.lrwalker.net /article_whatisscrup.htm (489 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Scrupulosity And How To Overcome It
		In Catholic moral teaching, scrupulosity defines the spiritual and psychological state of a person who erroneously believes he is guilty of mortal sin and is therefore seldom in a state of grace.
		The fear and the anxiety that scrupulosity produces within the person as he strives to do the will of God are symptoms of the affliction and not an indication that the person is somehow displeasing to God.
		Scrupulosity is a terrible spiritual affliction that makes it difficult for a person to believe in the mercy and forgiveness of a loving Father.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=3739 (2112 words)

	OCD, Religion and Scrupulosity
		Scrupulosity probably dates to the ninth or 10th century as an identifiable - although at the time unnamed - condition.
		Nowadays, says Ciarrocchi, scrupulosity is commonly encountered in adolescents who are in the process of developing moral and religious values, and in adult converts newly infused with a holy spirit.
		Scrupulosity is the form of OCD in which people become preoccupied with religious and moral behavior, often lapsing into eccentric rituals.
	www.anxietyandstress.com /ocdreligionandscrupulosity.html (1163 words)

	Treatment of Migraines, Anxiety, Addiction: Saint Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute
		Scrupulosity grows in the soil of a sensitive, delicate conscience; such soil is more often to be found among those with religiously formed consciences, those concerned with sin (Kolvenbach).
		Scrupulosity is characterized by excessive worry, self-doubt, fear of taking risks, anxiety, embarrassment, intrusive thoughts, rituals, guilt, crippling indecision, problems in social and occupational functioning, and avoidance of the fullness of life.
		When people with scrupulosity seek help from mental health professionals, they may be disenchanted by the lack of sensitivity to their religious beliefs and spiritual experiences, particularly when treatment is ineffective.
	www.slbmi.com /oldsite/articles.htm (5321 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Scruples and Psychology
		Scrupulosity is of course not delicacy of conscience.
		Therefore in any case of scrupulosity a double element may be found, the conflict, which causes the reaction and the pathological association, which determines the content of the scruple.
		A pathological association with past events may be found to produce a condition that bears all the earmarks of the scrupulous state, and yet on analysis proves to be actually a fear, not of sins or the confession of sins, but of the place of confession.
	catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=2973 (9508 words)

	OCD ONLINE - God Forbid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Scrupulosity is a term given birth to in the 1600s amongst the religious monastic priests of the time.
		In this form of scrupulosity, there is still an indicting aspect where the person might consider himself legally corrupt, with or without the presence of there being a religious threat, or indictment to his character.
		Within one month, the anxiety related to her scrupulosity was completely gone, yet her attachment to performing rituals was not at all affected because of her guilt, and her need to rid herself of the potential for her character indictment.
	www.ocdonline.com /articlephillipson10.php (2995 words)

	Thoughts That Will Not Go Away (This Rock: December 2000)
		Although the root cause of scrupulosity is not known, the person who suffers most certainly does not choose it.
		Despite the recommendation of the saint, it is often difficult for a person with scrupulosity, even if he recognizes the wisdom of the advice, to enter into a relationship with a single confessor.
		Not coincidentally, ultimate relief from the affliction of scrupulosity lies in the choice to act against fear and doubt.
	www.catholic.com /thisrock/2000/0012fea2.asp (2150 words)

	Scrupulosity - Sean Hannity Discussion
		Were he alive now, he may be diagnosed as having "scrupulosity," a little-known, narrowly targeted obsessive-compulsive disorder in which individuals are consumed by religious and moral fervor.
		Scrupulosity probably dates to the ninth or 10th century as an identifiable - although at the time unnamed - condition.
		Nowadays, says Ciarrocchi, scrupulosity is commonly encountered in adolescents who are in the process of developing moral and religious values, and in adult converts newly infused with a holy spirit.
	www.hannity.com /forum/showthread.php?t=28257 (1237 words)

	Scrupulosity
		Because these obsessions and compulsions are intertwined in the individual’s religious life, it may be difficult for the individual to recognize that he or she has a psychiatric condition.
		As the person with scrupulosity begins to face his fears, he may experience a temporary increase in anxiety.
		However, within the context of psychiatric treatment, the individual is often able to gain control of his or her OCD and Scrupulosity.
	www.baltimorepsych.com /scrup.htm (1225 words)

	Scrupulosity: Religious Obsessions and Compulsions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Religious faith and religious education are not generally the causes of Scrupulosity.
		Because these obsessions and compulsions are intertwined in the individual’s religious life, it may be difficult for him or her to recognize that he or she has a psychiatric condition.
		However, within the context of psychiatric treatment, the individual is often able to gain control of his or her OCD and Scrupulosity.
	www.healthyplace.com /Communities/Anxiety/ocd_scrupulosity.asp (1173 words)

	Organized Chaos - Volume 4 - God Forbid by Dr. Steven Phillipson
		With scrupulosity, there is increased risk that the patient is not aware that the threat is of an irrational nature.
		Patients with scrupulosity OCD perceive the risk in treatment as being greater than the risk of an individual whose OCD is concerned with contamination.
		The factor that distinguishes someone who is simply conscientious or concerned from one with responsibility OCD or scrupulosity is the amount of anxiety and/or guilt that they experience in not performing the task, or good deed.
	www.ocfoundation.org /organizedchaos/articles/Organized-Chaos-V004/Organized-Chaos-V004_06.php (2192 words)

	Past Forward: Scrupulosity (Religious Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
		In Scrupulosity (Religious Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), an individual is "plagued" with thoughts of their overwhelming sinfulness and/or disobedience to "God's commandments" - usually originating from many past lives in religious orders - that result in disempowering and unproductive behaviors in their life now.
		Most people, in the words of Martin Luther, "sin bravely, knowing that God is merciful and forgiving." The underlying Obsession and Compulsion of the "too good to be true" scrupulous person is that no matter what they say and do to repent of their sins, they are "never good enough" to be truly forgiven.
		When the life lesson associated with Scrupulosity is "absorbed" into the person's body-mind, the "disempowering" trait or behavior falls away over a period of time usually measured in weeks or months.
	www.healpastlives.com /pastlf/karmdict/kdscrupl.htm (737 words)

	A Mother's Rule of Life: Help With Your Mother's Rule
		Scrupulosity is actually a spiritual disease, and has been known as a specifically "Catholic" problem.
		I also struggle with scrupulosity, I tend to be a perfectionist and so I have started to really examine my thoughts, when I am being hard on my self I ask if it is a just critisim (like I was lazy today) if it is I try to change the behavior.
		For me I had to learn that scrupulosity was not a desire for holiness, it was a desire to lie to myself, it put fake problems and sins before my eyes so I could not look at the real problems and sins.
	www.mothersruleoflife.com /2005/10/struggling-with-scrupulosity.html (1058 words)

	Scrupulosity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scrupulosity is obsessive concern with one's personal sins, including "sinful" acts or thoughts usually considered minor or not sins at all within one's religious tradition.
		In modern times, scrupulosity is often considered to be a religious expression of obsessive-compulsive disorder or OCD.
		In Catholicism, scrupulosity in itself is not considered to be sinful; some well-known saints, including Ignatius Loyola, Alphonsus Liguori, and perhaps Faustina Kowalska, have suffered from scrupulosity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scrupulosity (376 words)

	Cardinal O'Connor's Homily: Are You Scrupulous?
		Scrupulosity is so-called because the Latin word scrupulus means a sharp little stone.
		Those who experience scrupulosity experience this tiny, little, sharp stone, as it were, in their consciences, in their very beings, which keeps them constantly anxious, constantly concerned and, above all, constantly afraid.
		Scrupulosity always involves fear: fear of dying without being able to get to confession, fear of not being forgiven by Almighty God, fear of going to hell.
	cny.org /archive/ch/ch031199.htm (2488 words)

	Anxiety Zone - Scrupulosity
		Traditionally a Catholic concept, scrupulosity is the obsessive concern with one's own sins frequently focusing on acts or thoughts not actually considered sins within one's religious tradition.
		This is distinct from the normal religious impulse towards goodness in several ways, most notably that the over-scrupulous person will not acknowledge the verdict of otherwise accepted religious authorities that they are making much ado about nothing.
		In modern times, scrupulosity is often considered to be a religious variation of Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
	www.anxietyzone.com /conditions/scrupulosity.html (162 words)

	OCD and Scrupulosity - My Experiences
		Compulsions are defined as an irresistible impulse to act, often in a repetitious manner and regardless of the rationality of the motivation, to ease the anxiety created by obsessions.
		Scrupulosity is the closest thing to Hell that I've ever experienced.
		What I mean by "middle phase" is this: when I first got Scrupulosity, it was because God answered a prayer that proved to me without a shadow of a doubt the existance of Him (you may want to re-read that last sentence, it's important).
	www3.sympatico.ca /jcomely/ocd.htm (3943 words)

	John's Baptism, Jesus' Baptism\| Ask a Franciscan - January 2004 Issue of St. Anthony Messenger Magazine Online
		Someone whose scrupulosity is religiously related should seek the help necessary so that he or she can enjoy the inner freedom that flows from being made in God's image and likeness (see Genesis 1:26).
		Scrupulosity, however, is a continual agitation that maybe I could have made a better choice or perhaps God is angry with me over something that, in fact, a reasonable person would regard as not that important.
		Under the heading "Scrupulosity" in the New Catholic Encyclopedia, Cyril James Harney, O.P., writes: "Deriving from the Latin scrupus, whose diminutive form scrupulus means a small sharp stone, scrupulosity signifies habitual and unreasonable hesitation, doubt, coupled with anxiety of mind, in connection with the making of moral judgments.
	www.americancatholic.org /Messenger/Jan2004/Wiseman.asp (1406 words)

	Scrupulosity - Acts 17:22-31 - Living by the Word - Column Christian Century - Find Articles
		He is a basket-ball player without a basket, a tennis player without a net, a golfer without a green." Sproul could have added: A fanatic is also a believer who frantically worships many gods, yet is never sure of their name, identities or purposes.
		Today the 7,500-member group helps people who suffer from scrupulosity, a state of anxiety or indecision that often has moral, religious or psychological roots.
		Obviously the pagan elite of Athens were not the first or the last to suffer from scrupulosity in religious matters.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_n15_v113/ai_18274340 (883 words)

	Homiletics Online
		Scrupulosity, Susan learned, is an obsessive-compulsive disorder, one that straddles two worlds - the clinical, fact-based world of medicine and the mystical, faith-based world of religion.
		He believes that scrupulosity sufferers are dealing with the fear of God, not the love of God.
		Moral scrupulosity occurs when you worry all the time about obeying every detail of every rule and regulation in life.
	www.homileticsonline.com /nonsubscriber/printer_friendly_installment.asp?installment_id=3015 (3774 words)

	OCD ONLINE - Unscrupulous Scruplies?; God Forbid!
		In the above example of scrupulosity, there is an indicting aspect where the person considers himself guilty, but the guilt is in respect to his societal responsibility to keep the law instead of feeling a religious threat toward God.
		The person with Scrupulosity spends excessive time and energy on minute, trivial aspects of spiritual life while ignoring more important aspects of spiritual life like engaging in charity and helping others who are in need.
		Often, people with Scrupulosity are referred to by family, significant others or by the clergy due to the tendency for those with scrupulosity to misperceive their excessive behavior as functional.
	www.ocdonline.com /Unscrupulous_Scruples_JSchwartz.php (2901 words)

	The Menninger Clinic, Resources
		"Scrupulosity" is the term professionals use to identify people who suffer obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD) with a specific preoccupation with moral and religious obsessions.
		However, people with OCD are thrown into a cycle of doubt and fear of having offended or transgressed, then of praying for forgiveness on the overestimated chance that they may have committed a sin, violated a moral tenet or not lived up to God's way.
		For persons with scrupulosity, the very act of entering treatment and working on their religious obsessions is so frightening because it raises a question in their minds whether or not they will become a "depraved" human being.
	www.menningerclinic.com /resources/perspective-magazine/1_2004.htm (12351 words)

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		Whereas out of contemplation she is, at least in some measure, depressed in nature, and painted with the images of creatures which cannot but leave some small stains in the soul.
		Of mortification of fear and scrupulosity, which is the most dis· quieting passion.
		Scrupulosity, though a pernicious passion, yet is only incident to the tenderest consciences.
	www.ccel.org /b/baker/holy_wisdom/old/htm/0295=249.htm (328 words)

	Devil in the Details by Jennifer Traig \| PopMatters Book Review
		Scrupulosity is, for lack of more sophisticated terms, religious obsessive compulsivity.
		As an additional quirk, Traig's scrupulosity did not occur in the context of general religiosity, but in that of Orthodox Judaism, a faith that she describes as fraught with craziness already.
		She explains, "with all the swaying, flailing, and outbursts, a Jewish congregation could easily be mistaken for a Tourette's convention." Readers are treated to exhaustive educations on Orthodox eating practices, prayer guidelines, tips on keeping kosher, and a wide variety of Hebrew catch phrases.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/d/devil-in-the-details.shtml (1098 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Scruple
		The idea sometimes obtaining, that scrupulosity is in itself a spiritual benefit of some sort, is, of course, a great error.
		Hence especially guides of consciences should be familiar with the symptoms that betray its presence as well as with the causes which commonly give rise to it.
		For one thing, the confessor should not confound a delicate with a scrupulous conscience, neither should he interpret the reasonable solicitude sometimes discernible in those who are trying to emerge from a life of sin as a sign of scrupulosity.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13640a.htm (844 words)

	Jennifer Traig :: Interview on Devil in the Details
		What marked Traig, now 34, as different from every other Jewish girl of that description was that she suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder, and the particular form the disorder took.
		Traig defines scrupulosity as a “hyper-religious form of OCD.” And in her recent memoir, Devil in the Details–Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood (Little, Brown), she details just what being hyper-religious entails.
		Up to 3 percent of the population has OCD at some point in their lives, and 10 percent of them suffer from scrupulosity as part of their condition, says Jonathan Huppert, assistant professor of psychology in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety.
	www.mindspring.com /~dbholzel/traig1.html (575 words)

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