- Username
- user2826728292
- Date posted
- 43w ago
accept uncertainty
how do you accept uncertainty I find it impossible and so distressing? It’s ruining my life😔
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- Pudu OCDPudu OCD
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 43w ago
I have found it tremendously helpful to actively try to challenge some of my black-and-white thinking on my themes. I have found that I can’t really “live with the uncertainty” if that means trying to straddle an extremely sharp good-vs-evil or hell-vs-heaven line. That simply doesn’t work. You must try to soften that line, learn and think more deeply about your fears, and try to identify grey areas where you can perhaps find some peace when required. Check out OCD Recovery videos on youtube for helpful advice on this. By the way this is not at all an exercise in abandoning your values or moral judgement, it’s more about trying to see things more clearly, calmly, compassionately.
- Username
- Pudu OCDPudu OCD
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 43w ago
If it helps, as a starting point, here are some irrational beliefs you might find helpful to try to challenge: - I am my thoughts - This thought/ urge/ bodily reaction means I want this - OCD is not the reason I am obsessing about this - If people knew, they would totally reject me - If people rejected me, my life would be over - Etc. Etc. Etc. If you’re anything like me, you probably have a whole range of these waiting for you back there! I hope this helps!!
- Username
- AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 43w ago
I’m really struggling with this too. Something that has been helping me is Matthew Marshal on YouTube. He has some shorts about his ocd that relate to accepting uncertainty. I’ve yet to achieve acceptance for the uncertainty but really striving to hopefully one day be there
- Username
- izabela’socdizabela’socd
- Date posted
- 42w ago
I struggle with false memory ocd and accepting uncertainty makes me feel sick
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- Date posted
- 23w ago
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- Anais V
- Date posted
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