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,…
As an active Latter-day Saint, going to the temple is something that I try to do more frequently than not. Usually it’s about once a month or every other month. For some people, that’s a lot, while for others, that might seem pathetic. But that’s the thing about the temple. Attending is something that we are not…
There has been some curiosity surrounding the relationship between having responsibilities and the severity of OCD. Specifically, does having certain church callings (like Primary or YW President, let’s say) make the OCD worse? Or, more generally, does having a lot of things to do make OCD more or less bearable? I want to thank my psychologist for…
Whether or not going to church is something that refreshes and rejuvenates or intensely stresses me out depends on a lot of factors, including but not limited to the ward/branch itself, my personal attitude, the state of my OCD, whether or not I have children with me/at the time, and what calling I have. You probably have…