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Life is uncertainty. And you have to except that you don’t have control over everything and everyone in the world and you also don’t have control over your brain. We are the only animals they have such a high level of consciousness but that causes a lot of trouble—mental illnesses. Mental health is a serious matter but fighting against your mental illnesses only makes things worse. The more you fight and ruminate and obsess and seek reassurance for your OCD it only makes it worse until you are stuck in your room with a bunch of bottles full of pee like that pilot in the early 1900s and you can’t get out y til you realize what you’ve done to yourself. Everyone in the world deals with uncertainty. You can too.

You already are! I think a lot of people in ocd treatment get stuck on this because we’re textbook over thinkers and even need certainty with uncertainty. The key is to not figure it out.

I love the way you phrased this question because I think we all feel the same way at the start of recovery lol. Uncertainty can feel super scary when recovering from OCD, but to learn to deal with it is just by existing in its presence. Learning that not everything has an answer, and no one is exactly certain of anything that's going on. Everything is within perspective and maybe we don't have to have the answers.

When u figure it out lemme know😅