Thanks for your reply Lbien6. Don't worry about bring "brilliant and insightful"...just sharing your thoughts helps me out .

For me, I would rank the depression as "worse" than the OCD, though as you say going from one distress to another is cold comfort. I will be starting CBT training this week and hope that it will help with both, since I think in some way they stem from some similar root cause.

Good luck to you as you attempt to heal, as well.