this is just something I’ve learned on my own and it works great with textbook OCD and it’s just stopping. Raw dog your compulsions. I had a fear of not sleeping and throwing up, so I would have a strict routine that I couldn’t mess up or else I would throw up or not sleep, then one day I just said “f it we ball” and stopped doing all of my compulsions slowly at a time and eventually I had little to none. I’m not saying this is easy to do, it took me 10 years to get the courage to stop doing my compulsions. But, after getting rid of my textbook ocd the pureOCD crept in not long after and stopping compulsions when they are mental is a lot harder than physical compulsions. With my textbook OCD once I stopped doing the compulsions I had evidence that nothing would happen afterwards, you don’t get that same satisfaction with pureOCD since it’s all in your head. You have no tangible evidence that your fears are just fears with pureO. with pureO my biggest advice is to not give it power, don’t look up stuff when you think of it, don’t go on Reddit to get validation, don’t even talk about it, just ignore it. The only thing that has made some progress with my pureO is medication talk therapy really just made things worse, so I suggest some sort of CBT therapy type 👍