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'Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood'

Fresh Air
Published January 12, 2005 at 10:00 PM MST

After being introduced at the age of 12 to a set of religious rules, Jennifer Traig developed a hyper-religious form of obsessive-compulsive disorder known as "scrupulosity." She chronicles her disorder in the memoir Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood.

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