Too much NPR?
NEVER!!!!!
Anyone catch Jennifer Traig on Fresh Air tonight? Amazing...
Not only is she Jewishy (half indeed), but...
I'd never even heard of SCRUPULOSITY... religious OCD.
The individual may constantly worry that he or she might say or do something blasphemous. He may fear that he has committed sin, forgotten it and then neglected to repent for the sin. He may spend long hours searching his mind to try to ferret out evidence of un-confessed sins. He is unable to feel forgiven. Specific obsessions and compulsions vary according to the individual’s religion. An Orthodox Jew might worry that he did not perform a particular ritual correctly. He might obsess about this for hours. A Roman Catholic might go to confession several times a day. Another individual could believe that anything he does might be sinful. This individual might become so paralyzed with doubt, that he or she becomes afraid to do or say anything at all.
Religious faith and religious education are not generally the causes of Scrupulosity. Actually, Scrupulosity is a form of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. (OCD) OCD appears to be a biologically based disorder with severe psychological consequences. The disorder occurs in 2-3% of the population (5-7 million sufferers in the U.S.). About 10% of the first-degree relatives of affected persons also have OCD.
Wow. Wow wow wow.
As someone with epilepsy, I've often had to explain to people that my condition isn't poetic or mystical, that it's painful and disruptive. That the knowledge it's with me for life has been a crippling thing in my past, and lives inside me always... Yet there's always some JimMorrison or Kafka-loving fool interested in convincing me that it's cool to have seizures...
I can't even imagine what it must be like to be a writer with Scrupulosity...
Anyone catch Jennifer Traig on Fresh Air tonight? Amazing...
Not only is she Jewishy (half indeed), but...
I'd never even heard of SCRUPULOSITY... religious OCD.
The individual may constantly worry that he or she might say or do something blasphemous. He may fear that he has committed sin, forgotten it and then neglected to repent for the sin. He may spend long hours searching his mind to try to ferret out evidence of un-confessed sins. He is unable to feel forgiven. Specific obsessions and compulsions vary according to the individual’s religion. An Orthodox Jew might worry that he did not perform a particular ritual correctly. He might obsess about this for hours. A Roman Catholic might go to confession several times a day. Another individual could believe that anything he does might be sinful. This individual might become so paralyzed with doubt, that he or she becomes afraid to do or say anything at all.
Religious faith and religious education are not generally the causes of Scrupulosity. Actually, Scrupulosity is a form of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. (OCD) OCD appears to be a biologically based disorder with severe psychological consequences. The disorder occurs in 2-3% of the population (5-7 million sufferers in the U.S.). About 10% of the first-degree relatives of affected persons also have OCD.
Wow. Wow wow wow.
As someone with epilepsy, I've often had to explain to people that my condition isn't poetic or mystical, that it's painful and disruptive. That the knowledge it's with me for life has been a crippling thing in my past, and lives inside me always... Yet there's always some JimMorrison or Kafka-loving fool interested in convincing me that it's cool to have seizures...
I can't even imagine what it must be like to be a writer with Scrupulosity...
4 Comments:
Hey, hey, hey I get it. And people often fail to see the Baptist church causes seizures also.
I didn't catch this radio show, but if you look at what they are talking about and what you are saying, it's really fear at the root of it that causes this Scrupulosity. Fear, something that some government ofiicials seemed to have their button-finger on right now.
And I am a "Jim Morrison or Kafka-loving fool", actually both, but I never thought it was cool for you to have seizures. ;-)
Power to the people!!
bleh--i never thought seizures were at all mystical, having sat through too many of my baby sister's ekg's and such. i think you are still pretty poetical, but i am too busy obsessing over a boy to think of much else...
I love Jennifer Traig! I wish she would come to Baltimore to give a talk or something.
Oh, you make me a verrrry jealous girlie, with all your talk of Charm City.
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