Mountain Home OCD Is Now on Social Media
You’ve learned enough about scrupulosity to know that OCD can be about more than handwashing and lock checking, but now you need some concrete examples of how it shows up in everyday life and what you can do about it.
That’s one of the reasons I started Mountain Home Center for Religious and Moral OCD. And it’s also one of the reasons I’m excited to share that we are now on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.
You can find us on social media at @mountainhomeocd.
My goal for these channels is simple: to make accurate, evidence-based information about scrupulosity easier to find—especially for Latter-day Saints who may have spent years believing their OCD symptoms meant they were bad people, didn’t have enough faith, or weren’t trying hard enough.
When OCD Looks Like a Faith Problem
Scrupulosity is a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder centered around religious or moral concerns. But when you’re experiencing it, it doesn’t necessarily feel like OCD.
It can feel like a testimony problem.
A repentance problem.
A worthiness problem.
A prompting you need to figure out.
Or a nagging feeling that everyone else thinks you’re doing fine—but somehow, you know they must be missing something.
For Latter-day Saints, OCD can attach itself to the parts of faith that matter most: repentance, personal revelation, temple worthiness, missions, covenants, prayer, scripture study, relationships with Church leaders, and our relationship with Heavenly Father.
That can make scrupulosity especially difficult to recognize.
One of the main goals of our new social media channels is to help change that.
Talking About the Signs of Scrupulosity We Often Miss
On Instagram and TikTok, I’ve been talking about the ways OCD can show up in ordinary religious life—including symptoms people may not immediately recognize as OCD.
This is particularly important for missionaries and prospective missionaries.
A missionary with scrupulosity may appear exceptionally conscientious. They might care deeply about obedience, work hard to follow mission rules, and genuinely want to serve God.
Internally, however, they may be consumed by questions:
Was I completely honest with my mission president?
Did I confess that correctly?
Was that thought a prompting?
What if I’m not worthy to be here?
What if I never actually had a testimony?
Did I feel the Spirit strongly enough when I prayed?
What looks from the outside like extraordinary dedication can sometimes be driven by debilitating anxiety.
It’s also why some of our recent social media content focuses specifically on signs of scrupulosity that missionaries and their families may miss.
We’re Talking About More Than Intrusive Thoughts
Intrusive thoughts are certainly part of OCD, but understanding scrupulosity requires talking about compulsions too.
Some compulsions are easy to recognize. Others happen almost entirely inside a person’s mind.
On our social channels, we’ll talk about behaviors like repeated confession, reassurance seeking, reviewing past mistakes, analyzing your intentions, trying to determine exactly what a thought “means,” repeatedly evaluating your testimony, and mentally checking whether you feel worthy.
We’ll also talk about why reassurance—which feels so helpful in the moment—can inadvertently keep the OCD cycle going.
And we’ll discuss what recovery can actually look like.
Evidence-Based Treatment for OCD
There is a lot of mental health information on social media. Unfortunately, not all of it is accurate, and general anxiety advice isn’t always appropriate for OCD.
Mountain Home’s content is grounded in evidence-based OCD treatment.
You’ll see information about Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), including how learning to tolerate uncertainty and resist compulsions can help people reclaim their lives from OCD.
You’ll also hear a lot about Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT), an evidence-based approach that focuses on the reasoning process that leads someone with OCD to become absorbed in an imagined possibility rather than trusting information available in the here and now.
For parents and families, I’ll also share principles from SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions), including how loved ones can become supportive without unintentionally participating in OCD.
OCD Treatment Helps You Return to What Matters Most
This is perhaps the topic I care most about discussing.
Effective OCD treatment does not require someone to abandon their faith.
For people with scrupulosity, the goal isn't to care less about God, covenants, morality, or living according to their values. In fact, OCD often becomes so powerful precisely because these things matter so much.
The goal is to help you distinguish between your faith and your anxiety. And when OCD takes up less space, there can be more room for the parts of faith you actually value: connection, service, growth, hope, love, and peace.
Join Us
Whether you personally experience scrupulosity, love someone who does, are supporting a missionary with OCD, or are a therapist or Church leader who wants to better understand religious OCD, I hope you'll join us.
Follow @mountainhomeocd on Instagram and TikTok, and follow Mountain Home on Facebook for practical education about scrupulosity, OCD treatment, missionaries, I-CBT, ERP, parenting and supporting someone with OCD, and the complicated intersection between anxiety and faith.
And if you see a post that makes you think, “Wait—I thought I was the only person who did that,” then we're accomplishing exactly what I hoped these channels would do.
Follow @mountainhomeocd and join the conversation.
Start Overcoming Scrupulosity in Provo, UT
Scrupulosity can convince you that your anxiety is a faith problem — but you don't have to sort that out alone. If OCD has attached itself to your repentance, worthiness, or relationship with God, Mountain Home OCD offers evidence-based care for scrupulosity in Provo, UT, so you can tell faith and anxiety apart. Follow @mountainhomeocd on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook, and reach out when you're ready to begin by following these simple steps:
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Other Services Offered with Mountain Home Center for Religious and Moral OCD
Support for scrupulosity isn’t the only service that I offer at Mountain Home Center for Religious and Moral OCD. I’m happy to provide a variety of evidence-based therapy services to support Latter-day Saints and others seeking faith-compatible care work through scrupulosity, I-CBT intensives, religious OCD-related concerns, anxiety disorders, and relationship challenges. I am happy to offer support with I-CBT therapy, ERP for OCD, SPACE treatment, and OCD treatment. Feel free to visit my blog or FAQ page to learn more!
