How do we differentiate between scruple and genuine doubt?

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How do we know whether something is a scruple or a genuine doubt? What’s the official Catholic definition for scruple?

Fr John Hardon describes “scruple” as “Unreasonable doubt about the morality of an act done or to be done” in the Modern Catholic Dictionary. However, it was published in 1980 so not sure if anything about what constitutes a scruple has changed since then?
 
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If you suspect that you have scrupulosity, you do. If you post about scrupulosity on the internet repeatedly, you have scrupulosity. It is really not difficult to discern. It may be difficult to treat.
 
Let me echo what Paul has said, and what many others have said on every thread you’ve started on this topic. You need to get off of the internet and get help from a mental health professional and a priest. Continually posting about these issues will only feed your compulsions and make the problem worse.

You are in my prayers.

Fr ACEGC
 
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