Atheists Pray! (According to Christians)

[Angrboda]

With me it's things like I like to park in the same place outside work because it might give me bad luck if I do something different,

With all due respect to people with OCD, repeating old patterns can alleviate anxiety, or at least, prevent its occurrence. By doing so we repeat a known good behavior and avoid facing the unknown. But then we also repeat things, sayings, rocking like a baby, etc. in order to calm ourselves, so maybe I haven't got this all figured out. But repetition does seem to allay anxiety.