title: The Doubting Disease: Help for Scrupulosity and Religious Compulsions (Integration Books)
author:  Joseph W. Ciarrocchi 
description: The Doubting Disease by Joseph W. Ciarrocchi brings to the fore the most current information available today on religion and scruples, scrupulosity, and obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD). In this book he helps us clearly appreciate the interior anguish suffered by thousands of people of faith who have this symptomatology and what we can do about it.
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  # A Confession
  
  
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  I was baptized and brought up in the Orthodox Christian faith. I
  
  
  was taught it in childhood and throughout my boyhood and youth. But
  
  
  when I abandoned the second course of the university at the age of
  
  
  eighteen I no longer believed any of the things I had been taught.
  
  
  
  
  
  Judging by certain memories, I never seriously believed them, but
  
  
  had merely relied on what I was taught and on what was professed by the
  
  
  grown-up people around me, and that reliance was very unstable.
  
  
  
  
  