Absolutely! To be honest I can not think of any good reason not to. You see as a child I have always been told to not worry about things that scare me. So when I first had a medicine reaction about a year ago that made me feel like I was having a heart attack - probably made me have a panic attack. I started to read about anxiety. I read about people who later had depression. I started to read about depression, and when I read about that, I read about the statistics of suicide - and things like, "if you have suicidal thoughts", etc. Since having panic attacks scare me, I started to believe in this garbage. So I would hear these things and wonder if I would commit suicide or the many other things written online. Not that I wanted to, but when such thoughts raced my mind, I would think there is something wrong with me because I should not be thinking like this because why would people have statements as "if you have suicidal thoughts"? Over the next few months I believe I became obessive over it and probably formed my OCD. I began to deal with anxiety but when my mind started playing these games I took them literally and did not wanted these thoughts. As I am now learning especially from the OCD foundation's website, I should welcome these thoughts. Similar to what this website states as well, but the only difference is that my thoughts are horrible and whenever I write about them, people immediately think I should call 911. When all it is, is a specific type of OCD. I think I took too many statements at heart - please note that I am not blaming anyone on this site or any other, I know everyone means well and hope for the best for me.
I think this website is amazing, but like many authors have stated, OCD has a thousand faces and wish that there was a lot of information available on this website about OCD. One piece of advice I would give to others is that there is a lot of crap on the internet and the moment you try to self diagnose your problems and think you know what you are doing, you run into many more problems. I did not seek therapy or professional help for one year after my first panic attack. In the mean time I had a million questions and they were not being answered and I did not realize my problems until recently about OCD, etc. I have read the content in this website many times and I tried to apply the CBT but when you are unsure of the exact problem, CBT or anything else will not work. I got some relief doing things in this website, but when I recently found out that I have OCD and that my thoughts are intrusive and I give them more importance than I should, that is when I am now realizing how to better apply CBT and EPS. When we start to self diagnose or even when we start to think that a problem of someone online is similar to mine, it may not be. I guess in the end, seek professional help as soon as possible, and if you feel that the information/solution given to you is not working or you have doubts go seek from someone else. Keep on seeking, keep on fighting.