Continuing the conversation from last Monday …
My friend Rachel is a college student who recently completed a major project during which she had to view obsessive-compulsive disorder through a Christian lens and present her findings in a medium other than the typical college paper. She created a blog, which you can view at http://christianityandocd.wordpress.com.
The questions that she asked me during this project prompted me to again reconsider the relationship between OCD and Christianity, along with those thought-provoking questions such as “Did God give me OCD?” and “Is CBT enough?” and “What is the cause of OCD?” Her blog explores some of these questions.
Rachel herself does not have OCD, so all of her research is outside of her own experience. I invite you to check her blog out and let me and her know what you agree and disagree with!
JACKIE LEA SOMMERS 
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love” (NKJV 1 John 4:18). Does this verse that she cited imply that people with OCD have not been made perfect in love? That they were made wrong or that they haven’t been purified by God?
“These ‘voices’ or compulsive thoughts are NOT caused because of a chemical imbalance (which the secular world cannot explain anyways); they are there because of a spiritual bondage in the person’s life” (GreatBibleStudy.com) — I disagree. Medication has helped many people. Does that mean my depression is spiritual bondage too even though Wellbutrin makes me feel better?
We had a discussion recently about this same quote! See https://lightsallaround.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/medical-or-spiritual/
I agree with you. I believe there is a spiritual COMPONENT, but it is not all of it. If it was totally spiritual, how could Lexapro literally take away a lot of my obsessions, and then lessen the remaining obsessions I do have? Ugh.
Oh, I also meant to say that I am eagerly looking forward to reading through your friend’s website.