is ocd a blessing in disguise?

is anxiety disorder a blessing in disguise?

my experience with ocd is that it instilled in me a lot of taqwa, fear of Allah. ocd is an axniety disorder, a fear driven disorder.

however in ocd fear is composed of many elements:

fear = fear of germs cleanliness <excessive fear
fear of being imperfect
fear of displeasing Allah < a "good" type of fear


there are fears and irrational fears that satan instills in us. he causes us to go extremes in cleanliness etc. and there are fears from our own nafs .



but then there is a 'good type of fear as well and that is the fear of Allah. but we have to remember to have a good balanced opinion of Allah, the believer has two wings, wings of fear, and wings of hope in Allah's mercy.


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so in curing ocd, the bad types of fear need to be improved through mindfulness-cbt approaches.

if you find that the mindfulness-cbt approach completely removes all fears, start building up the good fear, the fear of Allah.