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LOGAN -- A study on obsessive-compulsive disorder is showing that Utahns appear to suffer from a moral type of it more than anywhere else in the country.
Professor Michael Twohig at Utah State University has been working on an OCD study for more than two years. He's found of those that have OCD in Cache Valley, a lot of it is based around religious or moral issues.
"Your OCD is going to be around things that are most important to you. There's a high religious population here in Utah and up in Logan, so it just makes some sense that we're gonna have a higher rate of religious-based OCD," he said.
People with moral-based OCD constantly worry about sinning or causing a large moral error.
Twohig says helping people realize its OCD will go a long way in helping them get treatment and have a better life.
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