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- 3y
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- 3y
Give you a timer for making a decision : "tomorrow I am taking the decision and not going back". Making 2 columns with pros and cons. When my trigger is involved, I ask myself : am I ready to go, experience the anxiety and the shame willingly, right now ? If I feel in bad shape l consciously do avoidance, with compassion for myself. But I try to go into exposure as much as possible.
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- 3y
Thank you! Those are good tips!
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- 22w
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- 21w
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I get so stuck when making decisions. I guess it’s called executive functioning and before my OCD diagnosis I just thought I was a perfectionist and needed to make sure everything would be perfect before making the decision. Turns out it’s part of OCD?
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