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scrupulosity
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 1:31 pm
by agricola
Do fundamentalist churches (and other faiths with similar issues about 'belief') ATTRACT people prone to OCD or do they PROMOTE this attitude among people who - in a different setting - might never reach the point of symptoms?
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Re: scrupulosity
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 2:09 pm
by Ivy
I have often wondered the same thing. It's a "chicken or egg" situation.
Re: scrupulosity
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 7:57 pm
by Cootie Brown
OCD and narcissism is certainly prevalent in these groups, especially the ones in ministry and leadership. OCD people definitely desire order, laws, and rules in their lives.
Re: scrupulosity
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 8:41 pm
by agricola
I tend to think that people just kind of 'self sort' and people in coc's that buy into that sort of behavior stay, while more normal (mentally healthy) people drift away. I hope.
I realize, of course, that I (by thinking that way) place myself in the 'mentally healthy' bunch, and believe you me, after 20-odd years born and raised in the coc, I was and am a very long way from 'mentally healthy'.
So maybe I'm wrong about the self-sorting bit.
I'm over-anxious, have a lot of hangups about critical things like sex and self-esteem (as in, having very little), but I don't THINK I'm exactly OCD. Quite. Probably not.