Question about People who struggle with anxiety or have anxiety disorders or OCD!

Question about People who struggle with anxiety or have anxiety disorders or OCD?

I have been diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder & anxiety. I struggle with it pretty bad, some weeks or months are better or worse than others. Sometimes I feel like I cannot control my mind or that my mind works against me by bringing to mind the exact thing that I dont want to think about. Now I will say I have seen documentaries on people with these disorders and there are definitely different degrees of it. So here is my question, can anyone who has experience with these disorders or is knowledgable about them tell me what works to suppress the symptoms or cure them all together. And I want to say I know medicine is a viable option but I dont want to go on medication, I am looking for advice on what works to suppress these symtoms without medication. And do the symptoms decease in time, cause during the bad episodes I believe this anxiety is ruining my life during those times it just gets so overwhelming.

If you don't want medication (which would help but not all the way), the most effective therapy (according to research) treatment is called response prevention (a cognitive-behavioral therapy), which basically involves the person gaining confidence (as another person answered above) in a systematic way. Understand that the more one gives in to OCD, the harder it is the next time, and the more the symptoms get worse. I would check for a therapist who is knowledgable in OCD and response prevention. Most other types of therapies will be slower.

The only problem with response prevention is the large amount of people who leave therapy early because of anxiety.