Posted by DayByDay on October 7, 2003, at 7:55:44
Im brought up as a Catholic and when I was younger
a lot of my obsessions and compulsion was of the religios kind. Now I don´t have religous OCD-symptoms any more or very, very, little.
I don´t regret my religious upbringing but I feel that without it I would have been better of and still ended up the about same kind of beliver that I am now, (I have friend that wasn´t brought up that way and still have similar belief-systems to mine) There were a lot of positive sides with
the church stuff and everything but the problem I got from it was worse. Then again if it wouldn´t been religion my OCD-mind would have found something else to worry about. Finally OCD people without any religious or superstitious beliefs at all can have religious or magical obsession an compulsions. So I don´t know but if I would choose
to live my life again I think I would remove the religios upbringing- if I couldn´t remove the OCD
ofcourse - (then again maybe what is is meant to be even if if I don´t like some/much (depends on my mood) of it.)
Has anyone had similar experieces or just have a comment on stuff like this???
poster:DayByDay
thread:266261
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