So many people try to get rid of "OCD thoughts". Over time I have learned that is a mistake. The more you push a thought away the stronger it comes back. So don't push them away. Do not try to solve or find meaning to the thought. Just because a thought pops into my head that does not mean it is true. For me most of my OCD thoughts are so twisted and out there that the chances of them being true are slim. The problem we OCDers have is that the slightest chance something could be true or something could happen is enough to make us jump off the deep end. The truth is that anything could happen I suppose. Nothing is certain yet we want and crave certainty. Noone else in the world has certainty either yet for some reason we want it. When your anxiety is through the roof it is so hard to ignore athought. That is why I think medication was important for me. I was so anxious that I became out of touch honestly. Even though I clearly knewmost of the thoughts I had were really out there and far fetched it didn't matter. Once my medicine brought the anxiety down I was able to handle things much better. When the thoughts came back they no longer had emotions with them. Now I am able to have a life again. OCD has stolen years from me and I didn't even know it existed. I thought I was just a deep person who just cared so much. Now I am thinking differently. I am still the same person for the most part. All of the good and fun things about me are here. I still get pissed about real issues. I know longer stress about the unknown and that is big for me. Ican handle issues that are on the surface it's those unknown and "what if" thoughts that used to drive me bonkers. Now I am more worried about the here and now and what I do know for sure.