Is it true that OCD latches onto thing you value most? My themes are: pure OCD, POCD, and real event. If those are my themes, what does that mean about what I value?

Well pure O really just means that you do mental compulsions. People with POCD often value children/ want to have children one day/ love the children in their family, or just really care for others and value being a “good” person

I believe that in many cases what we are all struggling with is an intolerance of uncertainty. So perhaps you value control or the feeling of security?

With POCD, you probably love kids

Unfortunately it does because we react. Slowly they become less frequent and intense when we allow the thoughts to be there and we treat them with less importance

I have found most progress when treating the focus of my OCD as irrelevant - that the matter of the obsession could be anything, that it is currently what is troubling me but that the 'thing in itself' is just a temporary concern. Further, the focus may have long since actually changed or gone but that it is my memory or thought of it which I am reacting to - so I'm actually reacting against my own imagination. Does that make sense?

That’s the very definition of OCD.

Yes. When I was a teenager, I had suicide OCD (I was terrified of dying at the time). When my husband and I were dating and engaged, my OCD focused solely on that relationship and whether it was right. When I got pregnant, I developed POCD. Anything that matters most to me - that’s what my OCD targets. It wasn’t until I developed POCD that I discovered I had OCD at all and sought help. I didn’t know my prior experiences were OCD at the time so they were severe and I didn’t get help.