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Mostly posting this here after having seen a few threads regarding living with and dealing with scrupulosity while doing a rough google search for help with my own difficulties. I found this blogposts, its quotes, links and recommendations a great resource to help coping and dealing with the problem. Forgive me if its been posted before or if its not allowed to be posted, but to be safe I shall not post a direct link. It is the blog Littlest souls on wordpress, specifically the post An Infallible cure for scrupulosity. Posted in 2012 for those who would rather go to the blog directly and search its archives than use google.
I share it because upon reading it I have learned I was and am, indeed, a fool. I make no judgements and have the highest sympathy for those suffering from scrupulosity, and other attended evils that can lead to it or are caused by it, depression, anxiety, OCD, presumption and other evils, I have gone through my share, and I am not done yet. I post it here simply that it may help some sufferers or, more likely, serve as useful to people reading if they encounters someone undergoing such a trial or receive something similar themselves someday. I especially stress the obedience to your confessors, and the many saints and hardline theologians who stressed obedience to confessors as the most sure cure for scrupulosity. It was one of my greatest failings over my past few years with it, out of a secret pride I was not aware of, or dimly aware of, something that was repeatedly impressed upon me by multiple confessors but which my proud mind would not accept. I deeply sought peace but could never find it, nearly driving myself mad with worry and fret and nonsense to the point of being reduced to medication for a time. It was necessary at the time but need not have been necessary at all if I had not been a fool leading up to it, of that I am now relatively sure.
God love you all, and may Our Lady guide you.
I share it because upon reading it I have learned I was and am, indeed, a fool. I make no judgements and have the highest sympathy for those suffering from scrupulosity, and other attended evils that can lead to it or are caused by it, depression, anxiety, OCD, presumption and other evils, I have gone through my share, and I am not done yet. I post it here simply that it may help some sufferers or, more likely, serve as useful to people reading if they encounters someone undergoing such a trial or receive something similar themselves someday. I especially stress the obedience to your confessors, and the many saints and hardline theologians who stressed obedience to confessors as the most sure cure for scrupulosity. It was one of my greatest failings over my past few years with it, out of a secret pride I was not aware of, or dimly aware of, something that was repeatedly impressed upon me by multiple confessors but which my proud mind would not accept. I deeply sought peace but could never find it, nearly driving myself mad with worry and fret and nonsense to the point of being reduced to medication for a time. It was necessary at the time but need not have been necessary at all if I had not been a fool leading up to it, of that I am now relatively sure.
God love you all, and may Our Lady guide you.
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