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I'm more of a natural medicine/herbs kind of person and I am wondering what kind of natural medicine stuff is best for OCD+anxiety/stress?

I am also wondering something else. Even though I'm optimistic about that sort of thing helping with stress, anxiety and the distress caused by OCD and even the urge to pursue in the obsession, I'm not entirely sure how it works with the obsessions of irrelevance that fogs my brain and causes me to be very idle and unable to do things like read, watch/listen to something, etc.

Like for example, let's say that there's an obsession I have that is a harmless but mentally distracting thought that sticks to a particular interest of mine and I can't comprehend, enjoy or make it through what I'm doing since the thought blocks me. The fact that it's taken so long will make it hard for me to really forget it and even if the anxious urge and stress caused by it will be gone, the question of "Is it gone?" and "Am I still like that?" would still pop up in my head and in a way it won't be done distracting me. How would I be able to truly give up the distraction of the thought along with the anxiety(Which is easier to be controlled) as opposed to just the anxiety that the thought causes and be able to fully concentrate on my interest? Like for example, let's say I'm sitting there trying to concentrate on a program on tv, a movie, etc. whatever that requires my interest and concentration of it. I won't have the anxiety and stress pushing me to obsess with something and my mind won't be clogged, but because of cautious curiosity I'll still think "Am I still obsessed?/Is the obsession still relevant?" and I am wondering if that tail-end of the obsession will still be there or will it disappear with the anxiety if medical remedies are used? Will I still be able to give all my concentration or will the obsession minus the anxiety still be there? Because I wouldn't doubt that the actual thought will still linger or come up as a question of "Am I okay?" or the question of, without conscious effort of on purpose, "What if it pops up?"
I think of it like this - Let's say there is a cup of tiny, tiny red beads and tiny, tiny, blue beads, the red being my interest and the blue being the obsession. If 1/4'th of the cup(my head) is filled with red beads and 3/4'th with blue beads then the obsession consumes my interest. I figured that if 1/4'th of the cup is filled with blue beads and 3/4'th with the red beads then interest outweighs the obsession. Is it possible to make it to that point with the assistance of meds or will the question of "Am I still like that?", which would distract me from my interest, disappear?

I had a hard to explaining this and I hope someone could explain how far meds helps with the foggy minded obsessions.

How exactly does anxiety+obsessions mix, what are the fundamentals of the medicine and the body chemicals involved in thought processes and OCD, and could someone give me an example of how it worked for you?