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- 39w ago
Uncertainty
How do I sit with uncertainty?? Like I understand that I should just let the thoughts be there and not do a compulsion, but HOW? I would appreciate any tips
How do I sit with uncertainty?? Like I understand that I should just let the thoughts be there and not do a compulsion, but HOW? I would appreciate any tips
I just talked about this with my therapist. He said the term “sitting with uncertainty” is actually better phrased as “moving on with uncertainty”. Instead of just sitting there, DO things while you’re uncertain. Go take a walk while being uncertain. Go for lunch while being uncertain. Do everything you want to do while allowing uncertainty to be there without compulsions.
To sit with uncertainty just let those thoughts come and go like clouds in the sky. Don’t assign any importance to the thoughts and allow the anxiety to occur without compulsions
Try to remember this one bit if reality: if we don't feed the compulsions, given time the OCD episode will likely pass. Over time, it gets easier.
What the others who posted here have said 🥰
I realized recently that I put such importance on some thoughts and not others. I know that is what we are told not to do. But I stopped for a moment and thought about another thought I had several days before. And it struck me just how absurd and silly this new thought was and why was it so much more important or meaningful than the previous thought. I guess I was briefly able to step back and see how skewed my perspective was. It’s really difficult in the midst of thoughts to step away but maybe for a moment my mind compared one thought to another and found it to be illogical. I’m too am in the deep hole of ocd right now. So maybe little by little I can step away and see just how meaningless and fruitless these thoughts are.
Does anyone have any tips on how to move on from intrusive thoughts when you’re constantly afraid that if you ignore them God will be mad at you?
Can someone give tips about living in uncertainty?
This might contain triggering content, but I'm also wondering if others have dealt with this similar thought, and if so, how to deal with it? Overall, I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm able to eat again, which I hadn't been able to do because of how much anxiety I'd been experiencing. I'm spending time around loved ones and not just rotting in my room, and I've been able to wake up without immediately being bombarded by intrusive thoughts. When things first got really bad, I'd wake my mom up every night for reassurance, but I haven't done that in a while either. I'm really proud of myself, but there's still this nagging thought in my mind... While looking through others posts on here, hoping to find advice that'd fit my situation, I ended up making things worse. Someone mentioned how they had a fear that they'd purposely search for illegal content (related to POCD). I panicked, and "what ifs" flooded my thoughts. "What if the intrusive thoughts affect who I am as a person, and I do that?" I'm terrified that I'll search for those things, which I know means I wouldn't do it. But then, another person on here said they'd actually looked for those things, and that freaked me out even more. Does that mean it's possible for that to happen to me? I don't want to do that, but I keep having intrusive thoughts surrounding it. I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm just... stuck. I don't know what to do. I've spoken with other people who have the same fears, but how do I manage this? It's not something I've even thought about before seeing those posts. I've been practicing accepting the uncertainty, but I'm really struggling with this one. I hate this. This morning, I woke up, and the intrusive thoughts were back. It's just disheartening.
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