This piece resounded with me so much. I too suffer from a type of OCD that is concerned with morals. For example, in high school, I was obsessed with the idea that I was going to hell because of arbitrarily “bad” things that I thought I was doing, or because I thought certain things. It was mental torture. I wasn’t even brought up in a super religious way. On some level I knew I was being irrational, that I was obsessing over nothing.

Like you, discovering a label (even though that word kinda sucks) was liberating. Suddenly, I had the vocabulary to discuss what I was feeling. But even then, things didn’t get easy straight away because oddly enough, many health care professionals and even psychologists had never heard of moral scrupulosity OCD!

Thanks for sharing ❤