M south indian.can i get my faith back?after getting ocd i find it difficult to believe in god.my brain always says there i not enough evidence mate.

This may be related: To your obsessive compulsive disorder. My patients with ocd have obsessive troubling thoughts (not pleasant thoughts). For instance, i treat a lovely woman in her 70's who has ocd. She is always fearful that she will drive up onto a curb and run some one over with her car. As a result - she tries not drive ; drives like a mouse when she does. (she had stopped driving when i met her). Getting.

The brain is strange: Your question goes right to the heart of the matter: Is religion just a part of our irrational selves? I suggest 2 books to start with: 1) Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion: Illusions, Delusions, and Realities about Human Nature; 2) Why Would Anyone Believe in God? (The Cognitive Science of Religion). They're not really about religion, they're about religiosity.

Faith. : Faith implies that one has to suspend the need for evidence and 'just believe'. Many people stop believing when they realize the stories don't make sense. Others chose to ignore the evidence and have 'faith'. Both people seem happy