Heey I've been accepting uncertainty about my real event ocd and POCD and it's been a really useful and productive day.? But how are you guys today?

Oh It's hard mate Accepting the uncertainty avout these thoughts has helped me but If you wanna talk or need any help I'm here

How have you been lately?

That is good way to handle Just don't try to reassure yourself trying to figure it out if the thought is true or not Accept the thoughts,It's way better

Yeah It's hard sometimes What is your theme

Oh What's bothering you

@Diego A specific thought

@kleigh21 What thought

Why

@Diego I have hocd, which means I fear about being different sexual orientation than I actually am. It’s just been really rough this week than others, but I know I will get through it. Hope all is well for you!!

@tolandkm It's hard to deal with that we all have good and bad days But we can do it!?

The thoughts?

@Diego Always, sometimes they are so believable and sometimes in able to shake them off

@Carbon96 Yes These thoughts feel so real But what's your theme Maybe I can relate

@Diego Eh. I mean the most troubling and the most relevant is sexual orientation OCD and me trying to compare faces to people

@Carbon96 This theme is pretty common But What do you mean compare faces to people?

@Diego My mind will tell me my girlfriend looks like a friend of mine and try to make me think that I’m thiking about them instead of my gf if that makes sense

@Carbon96 Oh yeah It makes sense I've had these weird thoughts too But you can do it man Just don't fight the thoughts,it will get easier.

@Diego So when you say don’t fight.. how do you mean?

@Carbon96 When we keep trying to figure it out if the thought is true or not,that makes things worse,you start ruminating.

@Diego So you need to watch the thought and let it go Sometimes accept these weird ideas can be helpful Accepting my thoughts about POCD helped me so much even though that makes you a little anxious in the beginning

@Diego So you’re saying to just say thoughts are true in a sense to help counter out?

@Diego Yes this is so true! My biggest compulsion was checking my feelings going back to see if I felt the right “feeling”. so accepting the uncertainty in that has been soo difficult! But it’s better then ruminating. Ruminating makes me feel so shit

@Carbon96 Yes Try to accept them I promise you're gonna get better

@kleigh21 Happy for you kleigh Let's keep accepting uncertainty?

I'm doing some exposures so I can stop ruminating and It's been quite helpful But yeah Do your best to resist the compulsions Eventually you're going to feel better

Sometimes erp can take time to have results When I feel I'm not getting better I try to spend more time doing exposures But what do you mean something scary is wrong? In your mind?

@Diego ERP isn’t to get the thoughts to go away @bebold

But do you do the compulsions? The thoughts will come even more if you do

That doesn't help bro Try to decrease the number of compulsions everyday