The Mindful Muslim is an Inspirited Minds podcast that hosts raw, open, and honest conversations on various topics within the sphere of mental health, psychology, Islam and spirituality.
Osman is a medical school student who has struggled with Religious OCD (ROCD). He shared his story with Inspirited Minds on our Mindful Messages Blog, which can be found HERE. He features on this episode, speaking with Adam Afghan about his lived experiences and his journey towards healing.
In this episode, they spoke about:
- His symptoms of ROCD and how he realised what he struggles with
- How his ROCD led to panic attacks and severe illness
- How his relationships with others and himself were affected as a result of his struggles with mental health
- His journey towards coping with and healing from ROCD
- His advice for fellow Muslims struggling with ROCD
- & so much more!
You can connect with Osman on Instagram @osman.md_ or via email at osmanwmohammad@hotmail.co.uk.
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May Allah protect and help us and heal us all through our OCD, have mercy on us and our family and friends who have concerns for us, and keep increasing us in beneficial knowledge so that we may be free from the trappings of our OCD mind, OCD nafs, OCD brain, and protect us from Satan who is only too happy to take advantage of it all. May God have mercy on us and power us through to overcome those doubts and fears and uncertainties by helping us to remember Him and that His mercy exceeds His anger and God is more generous than we can imagine, and we are obligated to have a good opinion of Him, for God is in the opinion of His servant..and that we aren’t going to let shaytaan steal our time. ameen. Thank you Osman for sharing with us and for the host. May God see you through your studies through medical school and may He protect you in this journey of life. Ameen. Wish I could connect. I would recommend also, Osman, checking for autism spectrum traits or neurodivergence as we tend to have a particular susceptibility to ocd I feel. They are all in some way linked. I sometimes think that this is the souls way of trying to keep us away from the harma of this world. Like we told ourselves something before we were born to this earth to keep us on track, but shaytaan takes advantage of our scruples. Just my way of looking at it.