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- 6y
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dont worry about accepting it. When we say accept, we mean... acknowledge it and let it stay if it chooses. It means recognizing that it is with you, but that doesn’t mea it IS you. See the difference?
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You have to be accept that what your ocd is is a possibility. It's hard but you have to sit with the anxiety and even bring it up. Say it out loud, expose yourself and the anxiety about it is suppose to get less because it is telling your ocd part of the brain that what it makes you check is bullshit. The only way to do that is to let the thought come bring it up loads and don't react by checking, react by thinking about it more but not questioning the thoughts
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I understand. For me, it's making me panic because I did my excersise again and I panicked on and off. My brain is making me think I'm attracted to the woman but no, I just am one. My brain is going in ten different directions
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OK.
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For me it was weird. I knew this would happen because of the progress I've been making. I knew something was going to happen.
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I feel like I can't admit anything to it or say anything remotely close to agreeing.
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I worry that if I say like, for example, "I'm bi " I'll end up agreeing with it and actually become it.
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Or acting on it
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It means saying to your thoughts, “yeah, maybe you’re right. But maybe you’re wrong. I accept that I can’t know the answers to these questions with 100% certainty.” The doubt that haunts people most is “what if my thoughts are secretly true.” You have to accept that there’s a very small but real chance they are and live your life anyways.
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Ok
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OCD craves absolutes but in life there are many uncertainties we have to face on a daily basis. This can be scary but whenever the what if’s start getting stuck in your head. It’s probably a good idea to sit with the anxiety and let it pass without giving into the compulsions/reassurance. This is extremely hard. But I think baby steps are key. It also helps to write down what is your feared outcome(s) to their fullest extent. This is a good way of dealing with the fear an accepting the thoughts as just thoughts.
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- 22w
I hope everyone is holding up okay! I’ve 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 I’m a bad person, maybe I’m not, but I have a lot of things I need to do now. I’m going to practice not knowing for sure. I don’t have to solve this problem. I am choosing to sit with this uncomfortableness!
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- 22w
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 can’t 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 didn’t 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??, it’s affecting my relationship and I’m going on holiday on Friday and I’m worried it will ruin that, any tips would be greatly appreciated.
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- 19w
I've been told a lot that in order to get better, we need to tolerate uncertainty, which yea I get that and I'm trying every day more and more to reach that point!! But I've also been told that we need to tolerate uncertainty AND "our worst fears becoming true". Like how does that work, especially with POCD, OCD about a///ault, SA and all of that? Like that is really difficult for me and I don't really understand how I'm supposed to just shrug stuff like that off
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