OCD & Anxiety

The mind can turn itself into an interrogation room, and mistake the confessing for conviction. A thought arrives, feels like an accusation, and gets a ritual response instead of a plain one. It can look identical to genuine devotion from the outside. The difference shows up in what happens after the thought passes, whether it needs a compulsion attached to quiet down, or whether it can simply be noticed and left alone. Here is the marker that tells religious OCD apart from o