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A.) Your OCD originates in fear. Honestly, you don't need to know how it all started to cure it. You can turn on and off a light switch without knowing a thing about electricity or switches. Sometimes people even bump into a switch and the light will turn on and they won't make the connection. The point is that these things can help you turn the switch off.

Your son can do something very simple. When he has a compulsion to do a ritual, he can ask himself, what am I afraid will happen if I don't do this ritual? That is the root fear driving that ritual. Then he knows what fear to face. He can do face this fear by seeing how long he can go without performing the ritual and learn to let the feelings of anxiety wash over him so he can get used to them. Then after awhile he won't be scared of the anxiety feelings, and if he loses the fear of the anxiety, the OCD will not be able to exist and will melt away.