Anonymous
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- 5y
pureolifepureolife
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- 5y
OCD will probably make it impossible to really know that. I mean you can ask yourself: I’m I otherwise really happy and excited about who I am, but worried others won’t be? But chances are, OCD will find a way to twist and manipulate your emotions to make you think the answer is yes. So the answer is: maybe. Allow for maybe and only maybe. Not yes or no or probably. Just maybe. Sit with that uncertainty and the anxiety it causes until it drifts away without trying to resolve it further.
AnonymousAnonymous
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- 5y
Well I feel sick at the thoughts and don’t enjoy them but when I think of girls I feel nice and happy
pureolifepureolife
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- 5y
I’m guessing you’re taking about HOCD, and the answer is still: maybe. You can’t know 100% that your fear isn’t true when you have OCD. You just can’t.
AnonymousAnonymous
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- 5y
@pureolife Yes hocd
crazyfeelings crazyfeelings
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- 5y
One thing that is the hardest part of OCD is you have to accept that you will never know truly. This does not mean you are what your thoughts are telling you it means you have to accept the uncertainty. No matter how many times somebody tells you, you aren’t that way your OCD will never let you believe them. So biggest step to recovery is accepting that you may never know! That’s what helped me, and I was dealing with the same type of ocd.
AnonymousAnonymous
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- 5y
Yeah I’m trying to accept them I just have to remember feelings are not facts
crazyfeelings crazyfeelings
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- 5y
@JS0406 Yep exactly! Keep working hard, that’s one of the hardest parts of recovery so it’s ok if it doesn’t always work. You can do it!!
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