93 – Am I a Bad Person? (Moral Scrupulosity OCD)

In this episode, Amanda and Kyle dive into moral scrupulosity OCD and how it has shaped Amanda’s life. She shares openly about the intense anxiety and compulsive behaviors she developed growing up in a high-control religious environment under Bill Gothard’s IBLP cult. These patterns looked like “perfectionism” on the surface but were actually rooted in fear, uncertainty, and shame. Amanda discusses the research connecting high-control religion to obsessive-compulsive symptoms and explai...