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When you accept the thought, you are not accepting that it is true. You are just accepting its presence. And when you are saying maybe I will, maybe I won’t, the goal isn’t to say you will, but just to end the cycle of ruminating before you get deep into it. You can still be uncertain about things that could happen and be confident that they probably wouldn’t. Uncertainty doesn’t mean 50/50, it just means making peace with the 1 in something chance that anything could happen (pigs could fly!!). I had this same concern so I read about it & talked to my therapist.
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I think it's especially important for these themes
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Definitely, but probably the hardest to implement. Moral ambiguity is a tough one for ocd sufferers.
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@Soph I agree. I struggle with it.
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Ugh I struggle with this theme as well. My pocd tells me I agree with pedophilia and that pedos should be allowed to do touch kids. Worst part is I don’t know what’s real and what isn’t. I also struggle with ‘if you do agree with this, no one will talk to you and you will become an outcast.’ Unfortunately, you do just have to go with it and feel those emotions without ruminating or fiddling with the thought
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I keep getting these groinal responses when I think about kids or see one and it's really distressing, I only just learned that OCD can make you feel that and it's not actually attraction but it's so hard to remember that and I've seen people talking about accepting uncertainty but I'm so scared to think "maybe it's attraction maybe it's not" instead of "no it's not attraction that's disgusting" and idk what to do
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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?
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17f So basically I think you know this whole accept and sit with the uncertainty thing. It applies to pocd as well. Because you can ruminate, test yourself, seek reassurance as much as you want but it will never be enough for you brain to be sure you are not a P. So you need to sit with "Maybe I am a P maybe not" and just don't do anything about it. So sometimes I can do that. But here comes moral ocd. If I accept the chanse of me being a pedophile, isn't it morally wrong for me to be around children? Look at children? Watch movies with children in it? Cause now I can't even look at children even if it was an accident without freaking out and thinking that I'm a monster. Sometimes it feels morally wrong to leave the house because there is a chanse I can meet a child on the street I genuinely don't know what to do. It feels paralyzing at this point. Seems like I can't do anything. Like I even need to cover children on the screen with my hand when I watch a movie. It's exhausting.
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