Q.) Can it be cured permanently?

A.) Yes, I am living proof of that. There may be times when you may be tempted to backslide, but as long as you use all the tools that you are learning here, it's virtually impossible for you to become an OCD sufferer again, you just know too much and are too equipped to deal with it. I like to compare it to smoking, I quit smoking, then I was still tempted by it, now I am appalled by it, the same thing with OCD.