I have just now been researching my options. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I have so much I could say about OCD, I don't really know where to start!
I've had it for most of my life; it started when I was a young child, and I've had many different themes, most of them moral or religious (scrupulosity). Some people benefit from medication; I've never taken it, but I can see how it could help if one is really struggling. The most important thing is to learn how to manage the OCD. Those of us with OCD will likely always be predisposed to obsess, because our brain chemistry is such that we seem to have excess anxious energy that tends to latch onto certain topics and start obsessing about them. It's like we "need" something to worry about, so when our brains come up with some crazy or fear-inducing idea (as everyone's brains do!), instead of using common sense and easily dismissing the ideas as "normal" people do, we start worrying that they might be true. Once we start worrying and hyper-analyzing, it becomes very hard for us to stop.
The key to getting out of the obsessive cycle is to learn to stop that which our brains very badly want us to do - our compulsions. Compulsions are whatever we do to relieve the anxiety. For some obsessions, these are outward things, such as handwashing to relieve the feeling of contamination. For many moral and religious obsessions, compulsions include asking for reassurance over and over, researching the obsessive topic to death to "try to figure it out," or doing mental compulsions like pushing a thought away or trying to cancel it out by repetitive prayers. All of these things only serve to perpetuate the obsessive cycle, because our brains are so afraid that they will not allow us to be relieved by any of our compulsions. For example, if we seek reassurance, we may temporarily feel better, but the OCD will soon come up with another "what if" to cause us to doubt again. That's why we have to refuse to do the compulsions - as hard as that is! - and allow our anxiety to rise without trying to relieve it. As we do this over and over and over, our brains gradually get the message that the anxiety signals it is sending us (which are false or exaggerated) are no longer working, and it will gradually send fewer anxiety signals and less distress. It's really an incredibly simple process, but SO hard to put into practice because the anxiety is real, and makes it seem like the thoughts the OCD is sending us are valid. We always have a reason for why the obsession is a valid concern; what we fail to see, though, is that even if it is a topic that stems from a seed of truth, as many obsessions do, our minds are WAY over-analyzing and exaggerating the fear, and thus we are unable to view the topic clearly and see the ways that we are distorting it.
These kinds of mind strategies are, basically, exposure and response prevention (ERP) therapy. The most intense kind of ERP involves purposely putting oneself into situations that provoke the anxiety, while refusing to do compulsions. This presumably helps one overcome the OCD faster. Whether or not one chooses to do purposeful exposures, however, the basic mind strategies are the same - learn to live with the anxiety without giving into OCD's urges to do the compulsions, which in turn causes the anxiety to gradually go down.
There's way more I could say about this, and some websites that say it all much better than I can. If you like, I can share links to some of my favorite resources, or share more of my own experiences. OCD can be tough to deal with, but it's highly treatable and it's possible to live in victory over it even if one is predisposed to it. I pray God helps you in your search for freedom!