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Perfectionism & Purity

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

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The Importance of Being Perfect

Lola, I always feel like a broken record when I talk about my OCD. But it is a really big part of this for me. There's an entire subsection of OCD because you know, they're like recurring very common themes that people's OCD is attached to. And one of them is scrip velocity OCD, which frequently comes from like this need to cleanse yourself of sin. Lola says she doesn't even like perfect right seeming people: "They seem like robots and completely unrelatable"

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