Scrupulosity

While researching psychology-related books, I found one author in particular, Jennifer Traig, who published Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood. Jennifer also contributes to the Forward and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and has co-authored many books published by the Chronicles. Jennifer Traig style of writing involves real life situations and examples of her own scrupulosity, a hyper- religious form of obsessive compulsive disorder, that she describes in details as a disease that constantly overpowers her own thoughts and actions. This book is about Triag battling her scruples OCD to gain control over her life. The goal of this paper is to bring the topic of scrupulously OCD into discussion by connecting the rituals, religious…

Devil in the Details Book Review The book Devil in the Details was written to inform readers on what it’s like to have a mental disorder and how it affects someone’s life. Jennifer Traig grew up struggling with scrupulosity. Scrupulosity is a form of OCD in which the sufferer obsesses over minute details in their actions often relating to religion. As she grew up the severity of it would be at different levels. It affected her physically and mentally and also affected the people around her.…

intrusive thought that is recurrent or persistent that is not acceptable or wanted by the person whom is experiencing them. Three common themes or types of obsessions are sexual, aggressive/harm and religious or moral. Sexual obsessions are typically described as thoughts or images of unacceptable or disgusting sexual desires of acts. Examples would be such as the molestation of children or incestual thoughts of sleeping with parents or siblings. Aggressive/ harmful obsessions would be described…

Le Poidevin’s other issue is that submission to God’s will seems to be defeating the need for human autonomy. He cannot reconcile what seems to be a moral necessity (human freedom) and what he sees as the Christian belief that God is the absolute dictator of every human action, or at least that humanity ought to obey God’s every command without moral scrupulosity. Patrick Lee’s response to Plantinga’s Reformed Epistemology has an answer to this problem, although it is more implicit in the…

rise to the level of interfering with normal function to the extent that the behaviors consume hours daily and cause extreme anxiety. In this paper I desire to define what OCD is, how it affects the lives of afflicted individuals, and to introduce two therapeutic techniques that have shown promise in the treatment of this illness. OCD-afflicted individuals generally are categorized into six categories: checking, washing and cleaning, ordering and repeating, hoarding, and scrupulosity. Checking…

to put your heart and soul in anything related to it. We have two kinds of believer, the true believer and the counterfeit believer or the hypocrite. It is very difficult to differentiate the true believer from the counterfeit believer, because they both appear to be a very faithful person until you get to know each other well. The true believer is a trustworthy person and the counterfeit believer is playing a role. In terms of religion, the counterfeit believer is selfish, prompt to judge and…

The obsession aspect of OCD could be seen in various obsessions such as contamination fears, harming fears, symmetry obsessions, somatic obsessions, and scrupulosity or unwanted imagery (Abramowitz, McKay, & Storch, 2014). The next feature, maladaptive beliefs, refers to individuals with OCD who commonly have maladaptive beliefs, thoughts, and appraisals (Abramowitz, McKay, & Storch, 2014). Under maladaptive beliefs, some of the following could be seen: inflated sense of responsibility,…

upon the detection of falsehood" (Smith, VI.I.9). Smith hates the thought of you lying. You can not be a prudent man while also being a liar. With that said Smith says you do not always have to say the entire truth. He goes on to say "But though always sincere, he is not always frank and open; and though he never tells anything but the truth, he does not always think himself bound, when not properly called upon, to tell the whole truth" (Smith, VI.I.9). What Smith means by this is that the…

topic, it is not necessary to talk about what you are going to talk about for 36 pages. In chapter two, the author describes Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), its advantages and its flaws. He explains CBA, is not used to create perfect policy, but to create one whose benefits outweigh its costs. The greatest explanation of CBA Mr. Schuck gives is, “it is not a rule but a tool for policy”. I believe the greatest opposition of CBA is it’s measurement of values some view as priceless such as: value of…

into its weakened state. These two clerks embody everything that is wrong with the Church and its leaders of the time: a heightened sense of greediness and entitlement, a desire for pleasure above all else, and a mindset that if you are associated with the Church in some way then, “The law grants easement when things gan amiss’” (115). Chaucer makes it clear that he has an issue with the types of leaders that the Church is producing by mirroring what he finds fault with onto his characters. Out…