When you learn more and increase your bravery about OCD, it really won't have that much power over you. What some people do is to keep trying to fight the thoughts over and over again thinking that if they just fight enough that the thoughts will go away. This is not true, the more you fight thoughts, the more they persist.

When you remove your focus on a thought, it becomes weaker, however, if you focus on a thought, it becomes stronger. Have you ever sat there and tried to not think of something? It's nearly impossible. What we resist persists. If you want to get over your obsessive compulsive disorder for good, it would be wise for you to remember this statement. Make sure that you realize that obsessive compulsive disorder is not a mental illness.

There are no physical changes in your brain as a result of OCD. It's just thoughts. If you can learn how to divert your attention, you can divert your thoughts and if you can divert your thoughts then you can become OCD free. The reason that you must divert your thoughts is so that you can control what you focus on. We cannot control what we think about, but we can control what we focus on. We must look in our minds and decide what kinds of things that we want to think about.

So many people think that thinking is an involuntary process completely and that we have no control over our thoughts. This is just not true. You should not choose to be run by your thoughts, however, you should choose to run your own thoughts and to take control of them. When this change occurs in your mind, it will become as clear as day to you that it is not that tough to actually become free from obsessive compulsive disorder. It just takes patience and practice. You know how they say that practice makes perfect? Well it's true.

You can focus on key principles when considering creating your game plan on how you are going to get rid of your obsessions. You should sit down right now and jot down what fears you struggle with and make for yourself a plan on how you are going to beat these fears. You should not need anyone to hold your hand to write these down, no one knows more about your fears than you do. They don't know your limitations and strengths the way that you do either, so you'll have to trust yourself on this one.

Take action: Today, what you should do is focus on what things that you want to think about and then when you struggle with Obsessive thoughts, think about these things. You will find that when the anxiety tries to overtake you, you should know that there is no way in the world that it can hurt you, it's just feelings. You can do it, I believe in you!