Berries,
You're welcome, and thank you for sharing the insightful things you did. You made some wonderful points in your earlier response. Sorry if I sounded nit picky. I just wasn't sure if you knew you could have either because a lot of people don't realize some OCD is just obsessive, but I see now I was preaching to the choir, so to speak.
I have dealt with both, also. The obsessions that have compulsions and the intrusive thought obsessions that didn't have compulsions. The intrusive thoughts were the ones that bothered me the most because, as you said, I couldn't get them out of my head. I didn't invite them in, and I could get them to leave. Since there were no compulsion going along with them, I didn't know how to get them to go away, and they were disturbing and annoying. It is upsetting to realize you can't control your own thoughts. And it doesn't make sense to me, but that was what I was dealing with. Which bothers you worse?
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