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When familiar prayers become compulsive rather than contemplative

I've been saying the rosary since childhood but lately the repetition feels more like anxiety than prayer and I don't know the difference anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Sacred repetition has shifted from devotional practice to psychological coping mechanism.

Ideas that help explain it
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