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Originally Posted by LonesomeTonight
Do you have OCD? I ask because "Magical thinking" is a symptom of that and doesn't mean you're making up your past. It means that you think your thoughts cause things to happen....
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I haven't been diagnosed with OCD, but I'm sure I fall into the category of someone who engages in magical thinking.
As to the examples you wrote about, I think I view issues like that as karmic. For example, if I have angry thoughts about someone, I wouldn't think my thoughts themselves are retalitory. But the act committed by the person who angered me I might think could attract a karmic retaliation. So that I think constitutes a magical thought. I tend to believe in karma and reincarnation, however I'm not entirely sure, so I'm unsure say what percentage of belief I would be able to assign to such things. I have doubts but generally think they are possible.
For something like household disarray, which I can definitely relate to, as my rooms are a mess due to my physical ailments, I feel something bad can happen not because of a character flaw of being messy (I can't help it, after all) but because the mess itself constitutes a hazard. For example, nearly tripping over a pile of laundry. It's also definitely depressing to be in such an environment, and that is thus causing something bad to happen to you emotionally. So I can see from a certain perspective that as "punishment" for being messy?
I'm glad to hear you have less OCD now than in childhood; it's always great to know that people have been successful at improving themselves, good inspiration!