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When prayer becomes compulsive behavior

My therapist says my compulsive praying might be OCD but these prayers feel like the only thing standing between me and complete chaos.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The boundary between spiritual practice and psychological compulsion blurs when ritual becomes driven by anxiety rather than devotion.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Prayer — does it work? what the evidence shows?”

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