scrupulosity

Yeah, I've never dealt with the condition, but, uh, I actually had never heard of it before this email, and thankfully it was an email question so we could look online a little bit and research.

Scrupulosity is an actual condition.

It's a mental health issue, uh, that deals with the person that's kind of like obsessive compulsive, but about guilt and shame and, uh, about religion.

And so, you know, the first thing that we would say, as we always do, is that we are not doctors.

And Father, as I just put into Google, because, you know, it's a kind of a running joke, you know, Google knows everything, right? And I put in, you know, define scrupulosity.

And this is what Google said.

Scrupulosity is a subtype of obsessive compulsive disorder, OCD, characterized by distressing, intrusive obsessions, and compulsive behaviors centered around moral, ethical, or religious themes.

And let's focus on that for a moment.

Typically, the fine, beautiful souls that I've worked with who struggle with scrupulosity, they feel as though their sins are not forgiven.

All the same OCD shows up in different ways, often depending on the things that we care the most about.

And Scrupulosity is no different.

It just is that gross flavor of OCD ice cream that happens to relate to either morality or to faith or morality or religion and spirituality.

And scrupulosity actually comes from morality.