Is the fear from the OCD really yours, or is it just something that happens to you? If it's just something that happens to you, that you have no control over, then you can just feel it like you'd feel something externally. Instead of thinking "I am afraid," you can think "there is fear happening to me." The fear isn't a part of you, it is just a thing happening to you that you can choose whether or not to react to. You don't have to ignore it, you can simply dismiss it. You don't ignore the feeling of your clothes against you, you simply don't think about it all the time. The same thing with fear.
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