491 Scrupulosity & Religious OCD: Coping Strategies for Faith‑Based Fear

491 精细洁癖与宗教强迫症:基于信仰的恐惧应对策略

Your Anxiety Toolkit - Anxiety & OCD Strategies for Everyday

2026-06-24

38 分钟

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In this episode, I sit down with OCD therapist and scrupulosity specialist Justin Hughes to explore how religious OCD can hijack faith, why common attempts to find certainty often make things worse, and what true recovery can look like.
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  • Right now, somebody is praying for the fourth time today.

  • Not because they want to, because they have to.

  • Because if they don't, the thought comes back.

  • The one that says they've done something unimaginable.

  • The one that says God can't love them anymore.

  • The one that feels less like anxiety and more like the truth.

  • Most people call that a spiritual problem, but it's not.

  • It's OCD.

  • And the cruel, devastating irony is that it almost always attacks the people who care the most about their life.

  • Today, I'm sitting down with Justin Hughes, a wonderful therapist and author who specializes in ease.

  • And what we're going to talk about today is going to challenge almost everything you've been told about these thoughts.

  • Because the common belief is that if you're having these dark, blasphemous,

  • or terrifying thoughts about God, something must be really rough for you.

  • You just pray more.

  • You confess more.

  • You seek reassurance.

  • You try hotter.

  • But it never works.

  • And is a very specific reason why.

  • In this episode, we're going to talk about all things scrupulosity, religious OCD,