ldspsychology.com http://ldspsychology.com Helping to nurture LDS mental health Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:07:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Validation: The Video http://ldspsychology.com/?p=201 http://ldspsychology.com/?p=201#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:07:18 +0000 John Dehlin http://ldspsychology.com/?p=201 Validation. You gotta watch this video.

]]> http://ldspsychology.com/?feed=rss2&p=201 0 Happiness vs. Joy http://ldspsychology.com/?p=199 http://ldspsychology.com/?p=199#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:32:00 +0000 John Dehlin http://ldspsychology.com/?p=199 “For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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WORD FOR THE DAY

]]> http://ldspsychology.com/?feed=rss2&p=199 0 The little things http://ldspsychology.com/?p=197 http://ldspsychology.com/?p=197#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:16:30 +0000 John Dehlin http://ldspsychology.com/?p=197 “The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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WORD FOR THE DAY
Wednesday, Sep. 2

]]> http://ldspsychology.com/?feed=rss2&p=197 0 Gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy http://ldspsychology.com/?p=195 http://ldspsychology.com/?p=195#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:52:27 +0000 John Dehlin http://ldspsychology.com/?p=195 “I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, celebrate what we’ve attained, and appreciate the familiar. For if we can’t be happy now, we’ll likely not be happy when.”
Philip Gulley
Porch Talk

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WORD FOR THE DAY

]]> http://ldspsychology.com/?feed=rss2&p=195 0 Scrupulosity http://ldspsychology.com/?p=192 http://ldspsychology.com/?p=192#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:38:32 +0000 John Dehlin http://ldspsychology.com/?p=192 I’m looking in to studying Scrupulosity for my graduate work.  Here’s an interesting article from the NYTimes that talks more about it (text below) — published by a BYU professor and undergrad, no less!!!!

If you know anything about this topic, or are interesting in collaboration, please let me know.

John Dehlin

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December 14, 2008

Scrupulosity Disorder

By JASCHA HOFFMAN

In a paper published in the August issue of The Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Chris Miller and Dawson Hedges of Brigham Young University estimate that as many as one million Americans may suffer from a moral-anxiety-cum-mental-illness known as “scrupulosity disorder.” They define it as obsessive doubt about moral behavior often resulting in compulsive religious observance — and they warn that it can lead to depression, apathy, isolation and even suicide.

As the believing man’s version of obsessive-compulsive disorder, the diagnosis raises questions about where, exactly, the line is to be drawn between probity and perversity. It isn’t obvious how to treat someone who can’t sleep for worrying about their rectitude — or a devout Christian who is seized by the urge to exclaim, Goddamn! and repeatedly reproaches himself for it. Rather than try to fight off obsessive worrying, therapists might ask patients to give in to it, so that they can see that their supposed transgressions might be harmless. “If you believe in a God that’s all-knowing, you should trust him to know these blasphemous thoughts are mental noise and not what’s in your heart,” says Jon Abramowitz, director of the Anxiety and Stress Disorders Clinic at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The diagnosis might raise some difficult issues. Ritual hand washing could seem compulsive in an atheist, but surely it isn’t for a Muslim, for whom such behavior is ordinary religious observance. Are the anxieties and fears that may accompany a passionate religious life themselves pathological? Abramowitz, who has treated scrupulous Christians, Muslims and Jews, is confident that a therapeutic approach to obsessive spirituality does not threaten religion. He says that when patients are gradually released from crippling doubt about their own virtue, they can emerge with a new sense of faith.

]]> http://ldspsychology.com/?feed=rss2&p=192 0 The thankful and complaining souls http://ldspsychology.com/?p=190 http://ldspsychology.com/?p=190#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:52:39 +0000 John Dehlin http://ldspsychology.com/?p=190 “A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise.”

Baha’u'llah

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WORD FOR THE DAY

Friday, Jul. 24

]]> http://ldspsychology.com/?feed=rss2&p=190 1 The symphony of simplicity http://ldspsychology.com/?p=188 http://ldspsychology.com/?p=188#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:50:50 +0000 John Dehlin http://ldspsychology.com/?p=188 “To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion….In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.”

William Ellery Channing

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WORD FOR THE DAY

Tuesday, Jul. 21

]]> http://ldspsychology.com/?feed=rss2&p=188 0 Creating the future http://ldspsychology.com/?p=185 http://ldspsychology.com/?p=185#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:07:55 +0000 John Dehlin http://ldspsychology.com/?p=185 “The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination.”

John Schaar

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WORD FOR THE DAY

Sunday, Jul. 26

]]> http://ldspsychology.com/?feed=rss2&p=185 0 Life and Risks http://ldspsychology.com/?p=182 http://ldspsychology.com/?p=182#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:27:56 +0000 John Dehlin http://ldspsychology.com/?p=182 “I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.”

Mahatma Gandhi

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WORD FOR THE DAY

Tuesday, Aug. 11

]]> http://ldspsychology.com/?feed=rss2&p=182 0 Life is no brief candle http://ldspsychology.com/?p=180 http://ldspsychology.com/?p=180#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:07:23 +0000 John Dehlin http://ldspsychology.com/?p=180 “Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”

George Bernard Shaw

From a speech given at the Municipal Technical College and School of Art in Brighton

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WORD FOR THE DAY

Wednesday, Aug. 19

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