Thank you so much. Reading this helped me remember a bit of who I was before all this HOCD nonsense. It's been an absolute nightmare. It's felt so real, but even before I read this I knew this wasn't me, that I tried to remember the old 'happy optimistic' me, not this gray ghost in my head. I read this article before I took a nice walk in the woods, and it's been about 2 hours since I read it, I feel a bit of an anxiety coming but I will take your advice and try to just let it sit there. I've dealt with bad OCD when I was younger, thoughts of a loved one getting hurt, and I got over that with time. I became strong, and I know I can do so again. Thank you.