The Keeper of Imagined Law: a discussion on
imagination and creativity in OCD
Vivid imagination and certain types of mental abnormality are curious, but nonetheless, common bedfellows. In a number of conditions, aspects of heightened imagination have been long perceived as a sort of double edged sword, leading to both greater creativity and to Magical Thinking. In OCD this shows up as the belief that certain thoughts/behaviours exert direct causal effects over wider existential outcomes.