Najafi Q&A: Rulings of the Obsessive

After my marriage, half a year later, my mother-in-law and sister got married and after their marriage a few days later I got depressed and I suffered a lot. I decided to get rid of it through involving in education. However, at the end of my pregnancy and even after delivery about a year and a half, I got more depression and the obsession of cleanliness and impureness when entering the bathroom; I consider any drop of water I have or feel when I go to toilet or wash my hands impure, and as a consequence I wash half of my body often. Sometimes, I have a full washing. Furthermore, my face is oily and I have zits due to the effect of depression that I recently have started to wash it with soap more than once until I remove the oily substance, a matter that takes much time from me. In case I have to wash, I will spend more than an hour in washing; washing my hands so much that it cracked and hurt. All these things caused me a lot of psychological damage. I had nervousness, stress and negligence in my religious and family duties. I hate going out for a walk or for religious and social occasions and I hate to take care of my child I considered her to be the reason for this. Since I got pregnant with her, I have had a feeling of not loving her. I tried to avoid the topic of hygiene but I am very afraid that I am doing the wrong thing. Sometimes, I cannot control my nervousness and I am afraid that Allah will not respond to my supplication. I have done things to reduce this subject and I get a little better but after a while I cannot control myself and return to the starting point. I see I want to go back to what I was without thinking about these topics. My psyche is very tired, the natural person does not think all day about these topics?

A faithful sister who suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder in ablution, especially as she repeats ablutions with prayer many times until she reaches the point of exhaustion - sometimes - some of the female omen-teller told her that this is a demon's whispering, and her treatment is to visit Sayed Ali bin Al-Hussein in the city of Mahweel at certain times. What is her legitimate ruling on ablution? Is what the omen-teller said is true? What's your advice to her? Notifying that she is of high educational achievement.

A question from a girl who is being treated in psychiatry about prayer because she does not stay praying for a while as she is very suspicious of everything and has compulsive obsessive disorder is very intense according to the doctor to the extent that if she is just to enter the bathroom, she will be excessively tired. Getting a shower, on the other hand, it will be another calamity i.e. she is stressed a lot and more often strained until the blood comes out so it is difficult for her, and she cannot wash out of the menstrual washing because of all this obsession. Previously, her mother used to help her in everything and it is not done without problems, she said that she tired her mother a lot, in that her mother was fed up with her. Recently, she depends on herself to enter the bathroom but as I said earlier she cannot pray because of washing and all this obsessive compulsive disorder and since the menses comes in a few days i.e. less than a month at a time so she cannot wash because of obsessive compulsive disorder and so she misses praying. What should she do, taking into account that the scholars say that the solution is not to pay attention to obsessiveness, but this does not work with her either, they tried a lot not to pay attention, but they ended up in psychiatry and they know that prayer is the pillar of religion, but in her case what should she do?