I remember watching an episode of MTV's True Life where they profiled people with OCD. For 2 out of the 3 people profiled, the OCD stemmed from a fear of somet

I remember watching an episode of MTV's True Life where they profiled people with OCD. For 2 out of the 3 people profiled, the OCD stemmed from a fear of something bad happening and that was their way to cope. For one specifically, her mother had a surgery gone wrong and almost died. The therapy was to have a mock funeral for her mother, go to the hospital and watch her mother have blood drawn and essentially go through all of the motions of having her mother die so that she could process it. By the end of the treatment (which seemed to be a little ad for only a few weeks) her symptoms were drastically reduced.