Stop compulsive thoughts and worrying

Do you need help stopping them, or do you need to learn to live with them. If you want to stop them, they are going to stick around for quite awhile. However, if you are willing to allow them to be there and then move on from them, I think that would be the best thing that you could do. The more you do not want them, the more they are going to be there. Kind of like trying not to think of a pink elephant.