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Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast.

My name is John DeLin, I'm your host.

And today I'm very excited to discuss a topic that has become near and dear to my heart.

The topic today is a psychological condition called scrupulosity, which defined technically

as religious or moral based obsessive compulsive disorder.

Some of you may know that about a year and a half ago I started a clinical psychology PhD at Utah State University.

And because I was interested in studying the nexus of religion and mental health and because my supervisor, Michael Tuig,

was one of the world's experts in the treatment of OCD.

I decided to do my master's thesis work on scrupulosity.

And so I've been doing the study for about eight months or so.

And just coincidentally, my guest, Eric, which is not his real name.

He contacted me a while back and said, hey, John, I think it'd be cool to do a podcast on scrupulosity.

And I thought that was a fantastic idea as well.

And in addition, a few weeks back, a reporter from the Selig Tribune contacted me, asked me to be a part of an article where they discussed scrupulosity.

And from that, there was an article that came out in the Logan Herald Journal, and I asked Eric to be a part of that article, which he was.

And funny enough, the Associated Press wrote a little excerpt of that article, put it on the AP Wire.

And last Monday, Jay Leno himself on the tonight show made a joke about our scrupulosity study.

It's been a fun little ride and scrupulosity has gotten a lot of almost national attention because of these articles.

And so I thought it'd be really cool to bring Eric on who was raised LDS, as I understand it, and to hear his story about what it's like to deal with scrupulosity within the LDS paradigm.

And the only other thing I'll say is that I'm looking to start a separate podcast series called Scrupulosity Stories, where I interview different people with scrupulosity or people who treat it, just to kind of help build education.

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