Is accepting OCD thoughts opposed to dismissing them as lies?

Depends on what the therapist’s strategy comes from. They either go with the non-responsive method that I also with through for most of it until I was ready to take things more of a troll-ish way in recovery, or another method of engaging with OCD by personifying it like a bully and therefore, don’t listen to a bully because it’s wrong.

And you can absolutely say that OCD is a liar and still accept uncertainty. For example, sure, there is a chance that you’re going to get hit by a car if you cross the street… but you do everything in your power to not get hit by a car. However, there is that possibility—that uncertainty—because you can’t control other people’s crappy life choices and bad driving. But that doesn’t mean you don’t cross the street and live your life. If you need to cross the street and your OCD says not to, you need to cross the street.

You have to accept the uncertainty but not the idea ! I know it seems weird but keep saying "maybe maybe not" "I don’t need to know that rn" accept that yes it can be just OCD or maybe it’s true but rn you’re not capable of finding an answer cause if you try you’ll just fall in that rabbit hole of compulsion and rumination again ! Hope you’re okay !

I totally get what you’re saying. When I come on here to get some comfort, the advice sometimes conflicts with what my therapist says. It’s really difficult!

Because I have stumbled on this, I think my mind keeps getting stuck. A different approach, perhaps a more gentle modality, is ICBT. Therapist that use this modality state that having someone accept that they may be or may not be a x,y, z is not necessary. Instead, they said that we can operate from a state of certainty that we are not our ocd theme. What is wrong with our brain is the way it infers information. If erp is too my for you, maybe search icbt