OCD rooted in religion

hello everyone!

i was a normal guy until i started to become religious and after reading about quantum physic theories of thoughts creating matter(kind of buddhist and new age religion) and after reading about karma and starting to believe that my mind influences the outside world i got anxiety resulting in OCD. fear somewhow mixes up with the obsession of being in control and influencing the outside world by thoughts. fear of negative thoughts (because of the belief that thoughts influence reality) started a obsessive compulsive drive to force thinking positive and fear negative consequences when allowing negative thoughts. i also started to rub my face and eyes everytime i get a negative thought i kinda gives me the illusion of being in control and i sometimes even think something negative happens if i am not doing it. it is kinda scary because it all started with my journey into spirituality, befor it i was normal guy and never had OCD!

can it be that religion stimulates amygdala and creates OCD, anxiety disorder, paranoid schizophrenia and other mental diseases out of healthy individuals?

has someone of you the same problem as me?

I wouldn't think religion would cause that. There are plenty of well-adjusted religious folks out there. I do think that OCD can take just about anything, good or bad, and twist it to generate anxiety.

Snaga wrote:I wouldn't think religion would cause that. There are plenty of well-adjusted religious folks out there. I do think that OCD can take just about anything, good or bad, and twist it to generate anxiety.

sounds plausible.

but i observed that there are many more religious people suffering from anxiety, OCD, paranoid schizophrenia and psychosis than rational atheists. the focus on right brain imaginative thinking might be the cause of false beliefs which in turn cause those mentioned disorders. right brain thinking in general is the main cause of anxiety through believing in magic and irrational thoughts, whether in religious people or in psychotics/schizophrenics. all those people are characterised by vivid imagination and by believing in unreal things.