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How OCD hijacks spiritual practice

My prayers have become compulsions and I cannot tell if I am being religious or feeding my OCD anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The sacred has been infiltrated by the compulsive mind, turning communion with the divine into another arena for perfectionist suffering.

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