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Medicine will not help...your mind is just looking for anything to trigger you and when there is nothing it tries to convince you that there is something but you cant remember it...expose yourself to this situation and say yes i am ready to accept uncertainty...just imagine if everything in life was with certainty...do you think you ll settle for it? No you by human nature will start looking for uncertainty to bring some challenges...Good luck my friend
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it’s hard but the part of your brain that says “this is important” is misfiring when you worry about uncertainty
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Do you think medicine will help?
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Acceptance and commitment therapy would come in handy here, though I have never gotten the privilege to go and do this therapy, sometimes I practice acceptance myself and it does help. I mean, at times I can't and it is too overwhelming and sometimes I succeed and it does wonders. I don't know why nor does my family (I have no therapists unfortunately to guide me) so... I don't know if this helps much. Maybe at least if you never heard of ACT before.
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- 25w ago
Can someone give tips about living in uncertainty?
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- 25w ago
im not diagnosed, but these past two days have been terrible. i constantly have this underlying feeling that i might do something that i think is gross and i feel like i can’t do anything on my own because otherwise i might do something wrong. like i feel like i constantly have to be in front of people so that i can make sure of my every action. this is so exhausting and I’m so confused. and like i keep getting terrible images and stuff replaying in my head. i also try to recall what happened but i feel like i have false event too. i used to have religious ocd and that eventually stopped completely, but now it feels like all my work getting over that was pointless. also like i feel like i might have contamination ocd but not the typical germ type. I just get terrible images and I can’t remember if those images are true or not even though they’re impossible and i feel terrible. I don’t know if i could ever get over this because even the thought of it is terrible.
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Hi there I talk about religion (but I'm not trying to force it down anyone's throat) So my main event (which is the one that truly bothers me) happened in 2015 when I was 14. I won't go into any details or anything. I will say that it got so bad once that I almost committed something detrimental to my health earlier this year. Not long after that I spoke to a doctor and basically confessed what's been happening to my brain and my mistakes, he mentioned things that really resonated with me, I'll paraphrase a bit: "Okay, so what you did was not good but it's not something to condemn yourself for. It falls into the grey area, you've apologized and have been forgiven (even though I apologized over text, which comes across cowardly)but it seems that you haven't forgiven yourself. There's a whole lot of difference between you at 14 and you at 23. Try to have some perspective." This really helped and it still does, but unfortunately ocd tries to find a way around this. I'll get a thought of "oh but you forgot to mention that other part of the event" and it magnifies it. Can anyone relate? I've done everything but fully move on because I sometimes feel like I don't deserve to move on. And I'm still worried over the future.
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