Religious Scrupulosity Town Hall

Join IOCDF National Ambassador Ethan Smith and a panel of experts for a discussion on religious scrupulosity. Come with questions!

[littlegirlya]

This streaming saved my life. It saved hours of therapy and education. Thank iocdf team

[hazemalbasha]

Thanks for the you tube, one think stayed in my mind when Micah said his life basically stopped no job nothing trying to solve the issue.. same here.

[darcyb]

Thank you so much. On the road with a diagnosis and not sure how to sort out my feelings. Micah, your growth and joy in your relationship with God is inspiring and gave me hope. All of you were helpful in one way or another. God bless you.

[michaelford]

Thank you for having a Town Hall on Religous Scrupulousity. Growing up in the Catholic church and being diagnosed with OCD has created doubt & guilt in my religious beliefs. A topic worth discussing more in future online support groups! MJF

[nh]

Oh my gosh I'm so so thankful for this streaming. I am in a much far ahead time zone, so its during the night
But this is great!


I'm so so thankful for this. Praise the Lord

[crystalm]

Thank you for this! I connected with so many things in this video. I appreciate you!

[paulhardin]

I appreciate Dr. Witzig's expertise for sure, but there's something so empowering and enlightening about Ethan, Tawana, and Micah validating each other's experiences and enriching the conversation with their personal testimony.

[HollyJordan]

Is there anyway to share this? I tried sharing it to Facebook for someone but to no avail I think it would really help them. Thank you.

[hamza]

At the peak of my religious scrupulosity, I felt I was not fine and needed to change so I started not to pray and start questioning my Islamic beliefs. But from being extremely religious I have come into the state of existential OCD because I now doubt all the answers provided by religion to Existential questions. Now I feel there is no meaning to life and kind of everything, our existence, is just purposeless. This is also debilitating. How to do ERP for this. Do a session on Existential OCD and experiences of depersonalization and derealization that go with it

[dragonhart]

I was really excited to see this but there are some major jump cuts and missed information in the video :(

[jacqueschauvin]

Effexor BTW has horrible withdrawals. Just a heads up to the Doctor

[nh]

I wish I could have Ted Witzig to help me

[thewillingvessels]

EAGLE & CROW

The only bird that dares to peck an eagle is the crow.

It sits on his back and bites his neck.

The eagle does not respond, nor fight with the crow; it does not spend time or energy on the crow.

It just opens its wings and begins to rise higher in the heavens.

The higher the flight, the harder it is for the crow to breathe and then the crow falls due to lack of oxygen.

Learn from the eagle and don't fight the crows.

Just keep ascending.

They might be there for the ride but they will fall off as you soar to the top.

INCREASE YOUR CAPACITY TO SOAR!

When your capacity is increased in any area, you out grow and conquer battles, challenges, seen or unseen.

These thoughts that comes into your mind are from the devil and all you have to do is ignore them. Fly high with God and the higher you go and the more you ignore the more these thoughts will run out of oxygen.

Isaiah 40:31

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

KEEP GOING!
KEEP GROWING!!
KEEP GROANING!!!
KEEP GLOWING!!!!

DON'T GIVE

[CurrDawg]

Sad having OCD (doubting disease) that attacks something so meaningful as your faith