Good question! Meds treat symptoms, they do not cure the underlying disorder. If you need meds to cope, you need meds. As I look back on my anxiety days and where I am now I can see everything very clearly. Everyone that I have talked to with anxiety has the same issues. I see how I turned everything around.

Zloppy, you ask how. First step is admitting that there is a problem that can be fixed. The next step is complete self understanding. This requires stopping the denial and looking honestly at yourself. Sit with yourself in any situation. Pay attention. How do you feel? What is going on around you? How are you reacting to everything? This is what you need to understand about yourself. Next is why. Why am I reacting like this to this situation?

Some of my answers were low self-worth, lack of personal boundaries, lack of empowerment, fear of intimacy, lack of social skills, bottled up feelings that needed to be processed, etc. (Basically all of the skills that should have been a part of my early development but weren't).

One of the last things that I worked on after I fixed all of the above was that anxiety was just my baseline (habit). I stopped that by sitting in any environment and really being aware, looking around, telling myself that this environment does not call for this anxiety. I am safe, there is nothing wrong so get rid of it! There is a lot of self talk that goes on here. This really worked but first you have to work on the above issues that really do cause the anxiety. You also have to revisit what you worked on to get the final kinks out when you are doing this too I guess.

I really believe that I rewired my brain.

I don't think that everyone has OCD. I know a lot of calm people.