Can being afflicted by the evil eye or envy cause obsessive thoughts and illness, and does speaking about it increase obsessive thoughts?
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The evil eye can contribute to the affliction of obsessive thoughts (waswas), and there is no rational or religious impediment to this. This can be discussed with someone trustworthy. It is advisable to treat obsessive thoughts through reliable specialists, such as trustworthy psychiatrists, and by striving against oneself to ignore and disregard them.
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