Rat Girl
- Date posted
- 3y
NicaNica
- Date posted
- 3y
Life is uncertainty. And you have to except that you donāt have control over everything and everyone in the world and you also donāt have control over your brain. We are the only animals they have such a high level of consciousness but that causes a lot of troubleāmental 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 canāt get out y til you realize what youāve 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 weāre 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 knowš
Related posts
Anonymous
- Date posted
- 24w
Any tips for leaning in to uncertainty
I need tips on how to really accept the uncertainty the ocd causes, even if it feels so bad like I might get in trouble for something , do I wanna be okay with that?
Julian2006
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 21w
A little reminder!
I hope everyone is holding up okay! Iāve been seeing a lot of scared posts and whatnot lately, so I just wanted to make this post to remind ourselves to practice our uncertainty! I want to share a few response prevention lines that help me calm down! My thoughts do not define who I am. Maybe Iām a bad person, maybe Iām not, but I have a lot of things I need to do now. Iām going to practice not knowing for sure. I donāt have to solve this problem. I am choosing to sit with this uncomfortableness!
Ih8ocd!
- Date posted
- 20w
Uncertainty
Hi All, just wondering if anyone here has any tips with dealing with uncertainty? My OCD centres on my being worried that I have committed a crime and canāt remember doing so, I was out last weekend and my mind is telling me I attacked somebody as I got an intrusive thought to do so when passing them in a bar, my therapist says I need to sit with the uncertainty that maybe I did and maybe I didnāt and have to be ok with that But if the answer is yes then how can I be ok with committing a crime and going to jail??, itās affecting my relationship and Iām going on holiday on Friday and Iām worried it will ruin that, any tips would be greatly appreciated.
Be a part of the largest OCD Community
Share your thoughts so the Community can respond