![]() ![]() If you think ERP gets in the way of your faith, you and your therapist may decide to bring in a pastor, rabbi or other religious figure and have a conversation about what happens in therapy as a healing mechanism, versus sins committed outside of therapy. This can make treatment more anxiety inducing than it is helpful. For some, ERP practices go against their religious belief system. It’s important to understand your faith and the ways in which ERP might impact it. By repeatedly facing something you’re afraid of, you force your brain to recognize how irrational it is. ERP is when you voluntarily expose yourself to the source of your fear over and over and over again, without acting out any compulsion to neutralize or stop the fear. Exposure Response Prevention Therapy (ERP) is the recommended treatment for OCD sufferers. Treatment is an effective way to manage intrusive thoughts about your faith. We don’t have control over our brains, and when you’re religious, it becomes even harder to separate that obsessive thinking from your personal value system. The issue with these thoughts, is that the more you’re told not to think them, the harder they are to get rid of. ![]() Some may think they’re not praying the right way. ![]() These thoughts can impact the way that they pray. Oftentimes, people have intrusive thoughts about God, the way they observe God or even impure sexual thoughts about religious figures. The associations that the brain makes are often custom to your belief systems. Scrupulosity occurs across all religions - Christianity, Judaism, Islam, New Age Spirituality. Those afflicted with Scrupulosity fear that their effort to live according to their spiritual values is not good enough and is in direct violation of God. Often, this overlaps with Scrupulosity, which is a form of OCD in which a sufferer’s primary anxiety is the fear of being guilty of religious, moral or ethical failure. OCD can impact thoughts about your faith. ![]()
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