This last Sunday, I gave a lesson to the adults in our ward/congregation about “Mental Health and the Gospel.” As a relatively new Relief Society President, I have seen the prevalence of mental health issues in our congregation and also the hesitance with which they are discussed. I recommended to the Bishopric that we have a…
Hello friends, you may or may not know that I’ve been working on a book for LDS members who deal with mental health issues. I’ve finished up my very rough first draft and would love to add in personal stories and experiences from other members of the Church who deal with mental illness. If you…
Back during my Seattle OCD days, one of my friends introduced me to the idea of scrupulosity. Basically, it is religious OCD, though I didn’t really connect it with obsessive compulsive disorder at the time. It hearkens back to the idea of OCD taking over what matters to you and making your obsessions relate to…
Today I want to take you way back to 1975. I wasn’t yet born then, but some of my siblings were. Not that it matters exactly… I just want to examine a short statement from then Presiding Bishop Victor L. Brown given in a talk in October of that year entitled, “An Overview of Church Welfare…
Hopefully by now it is obvious that having obsessive compulsive disorder makes being an active Mormon a little bit more difficult. Not that it is more difficult to keep the commandments or anything like that, but more that it makes it difficult, for me at least, to feel like I am doing enough, being enough,…