Karma can be a useful term for OCDers. It is a very complex subject. Not at all as simplistic as merely cause and effect. There are many different types of karma. For example there is personal karma and the collective karma of human beings. There is the karma of all sentient beings and so on. They mingle and interelate and there are so many threads that keeping track of them is impossible. The Buddhist symbol for karma is the eternal knot.
Most people with OCD notice patterns. This connects with the need for symmetry, the reading into events as omens among other things. There is a great sensitivity to events and how they unfold or how we think they will unfold. And part of the obssesive compulsive pathology is the uncontrollable urge to control this unfolding. Fear is one of the main ingredients here. So we are aware of many simultaneous things; such as lookng at the digital clock and seeing a certain number just as the radio said something scarey. Sometimes the coinicdences are uncanny. I'm sure many of my fellow OCDers have experienced this. Now I have a background in Mathematics and I can sense when some coinciding events are way beyond statisitcal probability. Of course weird things happen but when one of these way out events occur more then once? Then something besides mere OCD is taking place. This is the beginning of my awareness of syncronicities as I mentioned earlier and the unfolding of karma...
The unfolding of karma is more clearly seen when certain events go together in a way that makes sense on some level. For example something that should not occur occurs and is out of the ordinary. It could be a simple happening and not necessarily groundshattering in the temporal sense but it is a seismic shift in one's sense of reality and part of the shift is caused by the OCD sensitivity, which is extreme, of course, but which calms down over time with growing discriminating awareness. MORE SOON...