acceptance
Does anyone else get triggered by some of the things people say about accepting and recovering. Idk Like sometimes I feel like my thoughts are so awful how could i ever come to accept that and let it roam free in my brain. I think that makes my fear worse especially when it comes to magical thinking :(
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I heard a quote about how people talk about Acceptance as if it means something positive, like that acceptance is supposed to be bring immediate relief. But acceptance is painful. I think of acceptance like growing pains. It is beautiful and good to grow, but growing pains are, well, PAINFUL! but they’re a necessity to growing. Acceptance is necessary for healing, but that doesn’t mean “roaming free” in your brain isn’t painful and difficult.
I used to in the beginning but not anymore because I personally know it’s true.
Yup. Acceptance seems easy to people whose brains are made for easy acceptance. We aren’t. Us saying “maybe” is as bad as us saying “yes, we are our worst fears”. It’s just something we have to train ourselves to do. I hope things get better ❤️
@TPD thank you💕 same to you!
I feel you and I'm sorry you're living this. OCD sucks and it's egodystonic, so it can make us feeling like we weren't us, with horrible thoughts and feelings. We know they aren't ours, because we feel destroyed by them, but the doubt about them is terrible to have. To accept your thoughts doesn't mean that you have to consider them ok or valid, it's just thinking that they aren't yours, they're created only by your fear, not by your true mind. So, stay strong, do therapy and let your thoughts have no power. They're not yourself, they're just the result of your worst fears. They don't count, because OCD lies to you. Stay strong, I'm with you in this battle. Therapy, stop compulsions and faith in yourself! ❤️
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Accepting uncertainty feels like I'm accepting my intrusive thoughts (that I know are false) as truth. Does anyone else deal with this thought and have any tips to avoid thinking this? (I know it's my OCD telling me this so I can continue ruminating and "proving intrusive thoughts wrong", but it's a thought that makes me feel like ERP will make things worse)
What does acceptance mean/ feel like? Because to me it just scares me and makes me feel like I’m giving into my OCD thoughts.
I read many articles about this, cause i dont know how to accept thoughts, and i hear "just let it come in, let it make you feel bad, let it make you feel anxious or depressed. So in my entire life, everytime i will have a negative thought, intrusive thought or disturbing thought, i let it make me feel how it wants. Im in a depressive season right now, i have many disturbing thoughts, i have to accept all of them to come in my mind and im acknowledging every thought and letting them make me feel how they want? Poeple are angry here that i ask this many times but i dont see any progression there...I tried to do that and gave me a huge depressive feeling and i started to panic. Now im overthinking if that depression means something deeply about me or not... and also if i find some thought patterns, should i change them? Or just dont engage in them? Also not engaging for me sounds like avoidance,.cause i avoid to engage in it. This "sit with it, accept them, work through them" doesnt make sense to me. When should i say this is an ocd thought in dont have to figure it out or this is something that i have to think about?
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