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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.
I need tips on how to really accept the uncertainty the ocd causes, even if it feels so bad like I might get in trouble for something , do I wanna be okay with that?
Hi All, just wondering if anyone here has any tips with dealing with uncertainty? My OCD centres on my being worried that I have committed a crime and can’t remember doing so, I was out last weekend and my mind is telling me I attacked somebody as I got an intrusive thought to do so when passing them in a bar, my therapist says I need to sit with the uncertainty that maybe I did and maybe I didn’t and have to be ok with that But if the answer is yes then how can I be ok with committing a crime and going to jail??, it’s affecting my relationship and I’m going on holiday on Friday and I’m worried it will ruin that, any tips would be greatly appreciated.
I've been told a lot that in order to get better, we need to tolerate uncertainty, which yea I get that and I'm trying every day more and more to reach that point!! But I've also been told that we need to tolerate uncertainty AND "our worst fears becoming true". Like how does that work, especially with POCD, OCD about a///ault, SA and all of that? Like that is really difficult for me and I don't really understand how I'm supposed to just shrug stuff like that off
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