Hi I've been having really bad thoughts about all sorts of personal fears, stuff that is so irrational and bizarre that I can't even go into what these thoughts are about. They're about a variety of different things and tend not to be the more usual type of thoughts anyway, I guess the content of the thoughts doesn't matter in the end, treatment works for all pure O thoughts, I don't want to complicate things, I would rather just group it into one target Pure O.

Anyway, I've had them real bad for over 2 years now and it gets to stages now when even though I know something isn't real or a thought comes up and it's telling me something negative in whatever story it creates and I start react badly to it and then after a time of the same story being repeated perhaps over a week or 2 or even months or just in a day. Those thoughts that I think to counteract against the initial spikes to fight their lies back are no longer working effectively and sometimes not at all. Then those negative thoughts become sort of the standards in my mind, they become unspoken about truths even though they're so irrational and even though 9 times out of 10 the type of "truths" that I can no longer resist and fight away are stuff that is totally impossible in a phsyical sense though I guess what is possible and impossible if we're talking about the psyche? It sort of leaves me feeling totally defenceless when even I can't beat these thoughts because they're not just thoughts they twist your own reality and like I say they can make things that aren't real and are false into real and true. Even though on a logical level they can and never will be, my emotions react to them like they are because I've sort of lost a battle with any number of particular nature of stories. This makes me very unhappy not just for the short term but long term I've no way of enjoying particular things based on whatever these pure o thoughts are about and other things like that.

I've looked around online and I've only found about 3 articles on the subject of actually what to do. I've got about 5 books on OCD as well and I'm still looking for more resources or the one that really helps me. I want to understand what methods or whatever it is they're called, actions I need to take to stop my mind fearing all my thoughts every day, 24/7 a day. I'm always on the alert on thoughts and I have/had hundreds/thousands of different thoughts and mental actions and sometimes phsyical actions that I guess are called safety behaviours in psychology to counteract these instrusive thoughts.

One book I've read brainlock I've saw some criticism on it and I totally agree that some people find that those steps that the author suggests is all you need can become objects of pure O itself. They can become part of the problem, thinking about those steps and always reverting back to them also always brings your mind back to the problem and brings them back into focus which is surely not good for the longterm.

I just want to know how are you meant to overcome pure o/ocd? What is the healthy and standard method/advice that psychologists go by?