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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a diagnosis that approximately one percent of American adults have.
Nevertheless, many more experience OCD-type symptoms, which include extremely-intense intrusive thoughts. Often these thoughts are deemed to be “unwanted.”
Lecia Bushak of Yahoo!
Health reports on the results of a recent study on OCD from Concordia University. Study author
Adam Radomsky stated that “it’s not the…thoughts that are the problem – it’s what you make of these thoughts.”
During the course of this study, 777 university students from 13 different countries were asked about their “intrusive” thoughts.
Bushak reports that such type thoughts include “religious obsessions – also known as ‘scrupulosity’ – where the patient
is overly preoccupied with offending God or with doing the morally right thing.”
Hmmm... Seems like
what folks are now calling “scrupulosity,” religionists have long called “righteousness.” Are thoughts of this type an unwanted disease, or perhaps a spiritual blessing?
As Radomsky said: It’s what you make of these thoughts…
This will ultimately determine whether they’re a problem or a gift.
Resources
http://health.yahoo.net/articles/mental-health/ocd-symptoms-are-more-widespread-you-think
Copyright April 10, 2014 by Linda Van Slyke All Rights Reserved
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