Center for Treatment of Anxiety & Mood Disorders

What is Religious OCD?

People with religious OCD strongly believe in and fear punishment from a divine being or deity.

Superstitious Behavior Psychology

When rituals need to be repeated over and over to avoid perceived negative outcomes and this pattern begins to rule someone’s life, it causes more anxiety than it relieves. At this point, the superstitious behavior psychology can be, and often is, a form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).