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A difficulty may occur when Christians attempt to treat OCD with behavior therapy. It involves the use of a technique called  “exposure and response prevention in the imagination.”  (Readers unfamiliar with this form of therapy, please see Behavior Therapy for OCD and Example of E/RP in the Imagination.)

Obsessions are heartless intruders.  They come from outside of ourselves (“egodystonic”), and then relentlessly force their way in.   We try to resist them, but they only grow stronger.  Over and over we do things to put them right, yet they return with increased vengeance. It’s no wonder that the word obsession comes from the Latin […]

I’ve been surprised at how frequently this question comes up. The main concern is often put like this: “I’m not sure if I have OCD or not. This just doesn’t seem like a mental disorder. I’m not saying that I don’t have a mental disorder, but this doesn’t feel like one. It seems like a […]

Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children… No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.  Heb 12: 7-11

The most terrified people I ever see are those suffering from clinical obsessions with sexual, violent, or blasphemous content. A loving mother is changing her baby’s diaper when she suddenly has the thought of performing sex on him. A good man is strolling through a park when, upon stopping to enjoy the site of a […]