Well, I don't think this is any different from depression. Everyone gets depressed now-&-again. But there's a BIG difference between a few hours, or a day or two, of feeling down & major depression. Yes everyone obsesses about one thing or another from time-to-time. But here again, there's a BIG difference between that & OCD.

I have sometimes compared the difference between a minor passing depression, & major depression, as being like the difference between the common cold & pneumonia. Colds come-&-go & everyone gets one occasionally. And once in a while, a cold can turn into pneumonia. And pneumonia can kill you. But that doesn't mean that a cold & pneumonia are the same thing!

I remember, one time, reading a "one-liner" that went: "Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it." It's easy for some researcher who doesn't have to deal with it to do some study & pronounce that everyone has obsessive thoughts & it's just a matter of what one does with them.

What concerns me about this sort of thing is that I can just see insurance companies jumping onto this bandwagon because it's allot cheaper for them to send someone to a class to learn how to shrug off obsessive thoughts than it is to provide one-to-one therapy. I'm fond of the concept of "mindfulness". But I see the same thing with that. A beautiful concept has been co-opted as a cheap fix for deep psychological problems... (don't get me started!)