I would propose OCD and depression are different.
I can cope the crap out of my depression MOST of the time, if I work at it. If I am honest with myself? I can drive myself through it.

OCD?
No. There is a point of no return. I can't motivate myself out of pure o. I can't happy myself out of it, go do something else, relax, make a cake, whatever.

It just doesn't work. And most of the coping techniques I have come up with actually REINFORCE the pure obsessive mental obsessions and compulsions [there are compulsions, even though the name would like to suggest otherwise].

half the time it's like you kind of just have to ride through hell.
For me.

And I am the damn QUEEN of "make it work" when it comes to "mental suckitude".

Nothing can break through the Pure O though. It is really frustrating, actually, though, when i try to talk about it, and I am basically screaming on the inside because it is so awful, and people suggest I relax or go read a book. I get that not everyone is learned in this area, but it is totally invalidating when I say "this is breaking me" and someone does the opposite of acknowledge that. There is no fixing that situation.

Except I still sit here and cry and feel so completely alone.

Like I'm on pi's raft with the damn tiger in the middle of the ocean. FOR SERIOUS.

I will come back when less crazy and talk about how everyone has obsessive thoughts though- I get where the article is coming from but maybe could have presented it better. Like... maybe a little more accuracy in discussing the theory.

But that's crazy talk.