i keep a visualization in my mind of a padded cell with a steel door and periodically i look through and theres a churning mass of vicious spikes in there that is my ocd i dont name it but when i get an intrusive thought i slip it through the slot in the door where theyd slide a food tray in sort of a you go wild in there do what you want climb the walls but youre not getting out  and if ever stray thoughts or fears start cropping up i just think what are you doing out here and imagine sweeping them up in a dustbin and putting them through the slot in the door too   its a bit over involved but so far it works for me better than the put your thoughts on a leaf on a river exercise  still havent named it though