Any Muslims with religious OCD here. Would like to know what you guys are doing on your own to overcome anxiety regarding religion (Islam) and how do you feel better when suffering high anxiety?

Ziyah, May ALLAH Make recovery easy for you and May you have access and the ability to follow and use the best resources available for the treatment of OCD. May ALLAH Give us all shifa. Ameen. Stay strong. What helps me even now is just reciting all my prayers or reciting surahs or reading the Quran or performing Wuzu etc only once (by that, I mean not repeating actions again and again for eg reciting Bismillah again and again because your brain tells you, you are reciting it wrong( on purpose) and so ALLAH Will Be Displeased. ALLAH Knows that you have OCD and you are NOT doing things on purpose. He Is Most Merciful), in one go smoothly despite what my thoughts are telling me to do or saying so for eg: I used to do wuzu multiple times thinking I had messed up when in fact, it was just OCD. So now what I do is, before let's say, Zuhr, I'll do the wuzu just once ignoring all thoughts telling me that I have messed up- i.e. I did not wash my face with water thrice, I only did it twice etc etc and just offer my prayers. Eventually, the anxiety will reduce In Shaa ALLAH. Hope I was able to explain a bit better.

Salam Alaikum I was diagnosed with religious OCD. I know the best way is 5 daily prayers. Plus OCD specialists. Whatever your thoughts are accept it and im not sure what your thoughts are but agree with sarcasm. Religion is not the problem. You love Allah and thats why its doing that. Don’t engage but let it pass. You have to get a therapist. No one understand it but you will know how to learn to cope with it. You found NOCD use it.

I always have intrusive thoughts. Everytime and everyday. Like all times (when reading about religious content, when doing a simple mistakes, when I'm seeing other religion's symbol). I always pray/say any words to stop it. It comes over and over, every minute. Sometimes it is as if saying "You're...murtad!" and I quickly pray and I feel so bad. I'm afraid..really afraid tho. Those thoughts are just taking over my head and my heart. My heart beats so fast tho I'm so afraid if I did something wrong.

Wa alaiykum Assalam. JazakaALLAH Khair for your help. The problem is that I am yet to find a healthcare professional that fully knows how to carry out ERP. I tend to avoid religious activity altogether atm since it causes me so much anxiety. Whenever you have the time and are comfortable informing, can you please outline what you did in your ERP treatment (exposures) so I can start practicing them? I don't want to share my thoughts here because I am afraid that they may trigger you. If that is not the case, I can give you a brief outline of the thoughts I have. Again, thank you. It is really reassuring to find that I am not alone.

Aamiin