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Tips for Living with Scrupulosity

Thinking through Religious OCD

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O. Alan Noble
Nov 26, 2025
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A few weeks ago, Joseph Harder asked me to write about “life hacks” I have for living with scrupulosity. If you don’t know, scrupulosity is a subtype of OCD in which you obsessively agonize over a religious or moral (usually religious) doubt or uncertainty and compulsively try to “resolve” the doubt. See this article for a lengthy discu…

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