Rat Girl
- Date posted
- 3y
NicaNica
- Date posted
- 3y
Life is uncertainty. And you have to except that you donât have control over everything and everyone in the world and you also donât have control over your brain. We are the only animals they have such a high level of consciousness but that causes a lot of troubleâmental 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 canât get out y til you realize what youâve done to yourself. Everyone in the world deals with uncertainty. You can too.
LydiaKLydiaK
- Date posted
- 3y
Howard Hughes is a great example how ocd can ruin your potential but only if you let it.
Liz Lake Liz Lake
- Date posted
- 3y
You already are! I think a lot of people in ocd treatment get stuck on this because weâre textbook over thinkers and even need certainty with uncertainty. The key is to not figure it out.
Jesse MillerJesse Miller
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 3y
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.
anne.abbyanne.abby
- Date posted
- 3y
When u figure it out lemme knowđ
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