Starting to realize that OCD in the brain is like murk in the water. The murky water never settles and stays murky. Learning to let time pass, and let the murk in the water to settle so you can finally drink the clean water at the top is key. Our brain is like murky water when we entertain our thoughts or engage in compulsions, we never stop shaking the water and the murk never settles. And then we think because we don’t have the right tools, “well obviously I’m disgusted by these thoughts so yeah take that OCD it’s not true”, But in fact, that is like boiling the murky water. we think we are killing the germs by boiling them away, but the water is still murky except now it’s boiling and chaotic. That is our brain. We must find the right tools, exposures and response preventions, that will act like our water filter. Only then will the water stop being murky. Only then will we learn how to make clean water to drink.