That's a good question. Telling the therapist is definitely a good idea, because it gets another opinion in there to bring ideas and suggestions to think about.

That's a good question. Telling the therapist is definitely a good idea, because it gets another opinion in there to bring ideas and suggestions to think about.

I plan to tell him about my son's symptoms, but I don't have a lot of hope. Honestly, this is the most difficult thing to "cure." Please note quote marks. I know it isn't cured. But even a reasonable stalemate is next to impossible. I just don't want him to go through what I went through. Too much wasted time!

I HAVE SENT YOU A MESSAGE. I HOPE YOUR REPLY.

ROGER THE MINISTER - REASON FOR THE SEASON

luk 2:7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

How old is your son? Why do you think he has this? What are his symptoms? I have to think back to Martin Luther. I believe he must have had this. He was absolutely obsessed with his sins. His confessor, when he was an Augustine monk, got tired of hearing him. Do you know how he got cured? He read Romans 5:1-5. Maybe you could get him a biography of Martin Luther, if he is old enough to read?

I am not Lutheran, but I think his testimony is amazing

BOTTOM LINE. TELL HIS THERAPHIST.

I'm not sure how old your son is, but I would definitely tell his therapist. I have a daughter who displays the same sort of thing. In my humble opinion, I think it's partly because of the way our own view of God has caused us to raise them (very shame-based/authoritarian maybe...that's what I did unfortunately), or it could also be that he may have some sort of mood disorder such as BiPolar or ADHD. Anxiety and OCD usually go along with those disorders and so can a chronic, low-grade depression.

I hope I am not scaring you! I simply am sharing with you what my own experience has been, in hopes that it might shed some light on your own situation. I myself was extremely scrupulous, and for a long, long time. I am currently reading a book titled "Healing the Shame that Binds You" by John Bradshaw and according to him, these types of behaviors are rooted in what he calls "toxic shame," which is sadly what many of us experience in church or in our religious families...not the way God intended it to be, I believe.

I wish you the best of luck in finding help and healing for your boy.

Scrupulosity can either be:
1. The result of improper/inappropriate religious training
2. A symptom of emerging psychiatric condition

The therapist absolutely needs to know (and I wonder WHY the therapist DOES NOT KNOW - who is this therapist and how competent is s/he?) Religious fixation (especially involving Satan, demonic involvement, etc.) that requires a bona fide exorcist (from the Roman Catholic church) FIRST requires in depth psychiatric evaluation which takes time. Bringing in anyone who claims to be able to deal with this from any religious context without the scrupulous examination of possible cause IS A HUGE ERROR.

Whatever age your child is, if it were my child I would go to a child psychiatrist. I would request a thorough evaluation (this involves written "testing" with multiple choice answers, sounds like a waste of time but these tests are carefully designed and they DO facilitate diagnosis). If your child is found to be in the early stages of a serious psychiatric condition, medication CAN prevent it from fully emerging. In Britain, young children suffering from behavioral disorders that test as pre-schizophrenic are medicated and the incidents of adult schizophrenia in Britain are far below those in the USA because of this.