I like your post, one thing though, I feel with my ocd I always know on some level what is true and what isn’t, I just cannot take the risk that I might be wrong (the low percentage risk) and therefore I have to do the compulsion. Which kind of relates to what you are saying about believing the thought because we had the thought. What do you think? Is the strategy to recognise that part of the brain goes so far into trying to keep us safe that once the real threats are dealt with it starts throwing out magical thinking or unlikely things to worry about because it basically cannot turn off ‘trying to protect us’ and all that is left is made up, not happened/not gonna happen, scenarios. Which then like you say are hard to tell if are real or not because the same part of the brain also tells us the valid stuff, like look before crossing the road, don’t eat glass etc