OCD Symptoms

How do I deal with living a day or so without having these thoughts? I get anxious when no thoughts come along so suddenly. It is like it is hard to let them go. Why is that?

Lik3
my son was just talking to me last night about his OCD.Along with other things
he said how they use to make him anxious...still at times do
but hes workin hard at seeing that right away and trying to deal with them
He did point out to me thats part of what got him threw life
Some of his OCD can be used on good things as he pointed out to me.
Like his will to become what he wants to become in life..
He has tranined his thoughts to be about moving ahead in life.
where as before that stressed him..
muffy

I, too. I was seeking professional advice and recommendation of a support group in my city-Silver Spring,MD. I've been in counseling. Drugs make me ill-even herbs. I wonder, however, why you are concerned about these thoughts not perplexing you on occasion. I would feel overjoyed. Perhaps I am not reading you correctly. Do restate the problem. P erhaps we can be of help to each other. George

It sounds like you like the familiarity of them. I'd treat them like "pets" and thank them when they show up, give them a pat or two, but not otherwise engage with them. Just go back to whatever you are doing and do that. Concentrating on what we're doing is the best way to keep focused I think. Like Muffy's son, use the thoughts to remind you to concentrate on how to solve what is making you anxious in the first place and how to get beyond that.

The replies here are good, and I know the feelings you are experiencing. It's really a classic case of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

You have to think of the OCD thoughts as hostage-takers to make the analogy work, but in many ways that's exactly what they are.