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- Anonymous
- Date posted
- 5y ago
- Username
- outboxedoutboxed
- Date posted
- 5y ago
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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- MissLovelyMissLovely
- Date posted
- 5y ago
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
- Username
- AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 5y ago
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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- AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 5y ago
OK.
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- AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 5y ago
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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- AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I feel like I can't admit anything to it or say anything remotely close to agreeing.
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- AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 5y ago
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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- AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Or acting on it
- Username
- pureolifepureolife
- Date posted
- 5y ago
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.
- Username
- AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Ok
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- loveisallloveisall
- Date posted
- 5y ago
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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- TRozz
- Date posted
- 21w ago
Feeling like I'm unraveling, triggers setting me back
Every time I feel like I'm doing something major that OCD has held me back from, or even just in a good headspace, something else will happen that sets me back of triggers my anger and hopelessness. This morning I felt so hopeless and didn't want to get out of bed. But I made myself get up, and order some groceries because I hadn't been eating much lately. Having a hard time with food prep and making sure everything is clean enough to use and eat. Anyway I ordered some stuff to have delivered bc I knew the stores would be packed on Sunday morning. I made coffee and started feeling like I could get some things done today I'd been avoiding, and that I could handle things. When I went down to grab the grocery bag that had been delivered, it was on the ground outside my building and it had some red spot on the outside, which is my biggest trigger with contamination right now. It was really discouraging and I got so, so angry. I know that there's not OCD god, and that things happen, and that I don't know what the red mark was, but I also don't know how to not worry that the person delivering it was bleeding or that I could use anything I got without worrying I'm in danger. Ive been desperately trying to find help and a therapist, even switched my insurance to see if it helped but I've had no luck and my life is unraveling right now. If anyone has any advice or encouragement, It would be greatly helpful.
- Username
- Alice1837
- Date posted
- 21w ago
How to accept uncertainty
Hey! I read that in order to better manage my OCD and be less worried all the time, I have to be okay with uncertainty. For me, it's coming to term with the fact that I might be attracted to a man someday (I'm a lesbian) even though the thought feels terrifying. I don't have anything against men or against bisexual people obviously it's just not who I am and I'm so so afraid of losing my identity. Anyone got tips on how to be okay with accepting that you can't be 100% sure your worst fear won't turn out to be true?
- Username
- Ermagh2024
- Date posted
- 18w ago
How do you cope with uncertainty
I am still spiralling more than a week later about a situation with my cousin’s son. He is nearly two and I had my foot off the couch when he walked by. Im scared his private part touched my foot but he was clothed. No I feel like I traumatized him and ruined his life and mine. I feel like I can’t live not knowing whether I hurt him or not. How do you deal with the terrible guilty and anxiety? It definitely comes in waves for me but today I have felt horrible.
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