Can we talk for a moment about scrupulosity and procrastination? There are a few unique features to religious OCD that can contribute to procrastination and excessive distractibility. Some people ask me if OCD and ADHD are cousins. (I don’t ...
Jaimie Eckert
Apr 7, 2024
I’ve sinned, and I know it. My ribcage squeezes together with shame and my stomach turns over. As a person with religious OCD, my guilt isn’t theoretical–it’s something palpable, a real physical sensation. You might think my first response ...
Jaimie Eckert
Mar 20, 2024
Today’s guest post is from Alina,* a 19-year-old who found faith during the pandemic and has since grappled with scrupulosity and OCD. She’s a fun-loving “shy extrovert” who loves pasta and coffee and studies psychology and theology in her ...
Jaimie Eckert
Feb 22, 2024
Are you ritualistically, anxiously confessing your sins in a way you know God didn’t intend? In a recent survey of 431 people with religious OCD, I asked them to respond to the statement, “I can be too intense or ...
Jaimie Eckert
Jan 11, 2024
The relationship between faith and feelings is a critical issue that plagues nearly everyone in the scrupulosity recovery community. Our faith can override our emotions, or it can flounder beneath them. Learning how to handle our emotions from a ...
Jaimie Eckert
Dec 28, 2023
If you suffer from scrupulosity and experience awful, unwanted thoughts towards God, you might be wondering: how common are blasphemous thoughts? I don’t know of anyone who has measured the prevalence of blasphemous thoughts in the general, non-OCD population. ...
Jaimie Eckert
Dec 14, 2023
Do you ever obsess about your feelings? Do you feel apathetic about religious things and then start to panic about your feeling of apathy? Do you wake up feeling more anxious than usual and worry that your scrupulosity is ...
Jaimie Eckert
Nov 30, 2023
In this brief article, I would like to address the issue of scrupulosity and the prophetic word. Let me illustrate the problem in the following true experience. A woman we’ll call Leslie was attending a new church at the ...
Jaimie Eckert
Nov 22, 2023
When I think about the bodily compulsions of religious OCD, I think back to the first moment I realized my own bodily movements might not be “normal.” I was in a small group Bible study some years back, and ...
Jaimie Eckert
Nov 9, 2023
Today's guest post comes from June Johnson,* a veterinarian and a much-loved member of our online support group. She's been brave enough and kind enough to share her scrupulosity story with us today. Let's read about her journey with ...
Jaimie Eckert
Oct 26, 2023
