@artscaping Hi Chris, What clomopramine did for me, was help my thoughts ramble around from thought to NEW thought. When OCD is bad, you can get stuck in repetitive, useless thoughts. It's almost like when a record gets stuck on the record player, and keeps repeating a phrase, over and over and over. When the brain constantly does that, it can be a nightmare. Clomipramine just seemed to help me jump from thought to thought, like a normal brain! I swear, it was like my brain would get stuck without it. It literally helped me almost over night. I also thought writing down the obsessions, over and over, made them lose power and significance. I would write something down 100 times, I swear. It got utterly stupid. Doing this really helped. It helped me not take the thought seriously. Also, learning to recognize the things that are obsessions in my head, and literally, just let them sail right through, helped tremendously. My doctor said the content of OCD thoughts are insignificant, and could be about anything. They literally, are not real. They are from a faulty brain that is not working right. I literally, would just think them, and not give them any credence, or attention. But I do think the thing that helped most was the medication. Now I am totally off the stuff, and doing fine. Let me know if you need more info. Love to you, Lori