THE TRUTH ABOUT OCD and the world in general: Something i noticed with ocd is that it relies excessively in black and white thinking when it comes to the specific obsession you have (for example: If i touch this I'll get germs,only if i don't touch it I won't or if i have this thought I'm a pedophile, you can't have this thought pass through your mind and not be or if i fail I'm a failure for life e.t.c) People get attached to specific labels and causes of things and that's self destructive. Main reason why when you get an intrusive thought you should let it pass, you shouldn't disagree but you also SHOULDN'T AGREE with it unlike the popular belief that "agreeing" will help you let it go. This thought is desperately trying to LABEL you as "bad" which in turn makes you desperately try to label yourself as the opposite of it. Do not add commentary to the thought, do not search your brain for answers about whether it's true or not, do not check whether you did something or not. Let it go, no matter how painful, DO NOT force yourself to stop thinking about it or to forget about it. Just let it appear without touching the subject. After all, there is only one absolute truth in this word and that is that existence is constantly shapeshifting, it's not stable, it's neither black nor white. It's gray.