- Username
- Soph
- Date posted
- 4y ago
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.
I think it's especially important for these themes
Definitely, but probably the hardest to implement. Moral ambiguity is a tough one for ocd sufferers.
@Soph I agree. I struggle with it.
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
What does acceptance mean/ feel like? Because to me it just scares me and makes me feel like I’m giving into my OCD thoughts.
Anyone have any advice on how to work of acceptance? i struggle quite bad with real event / false memory ocd and the guilt just eats me up everytime. i want to recover but it seems so impossible to just try and live my life not caring if im a good or bad person?
Does anyone else get triggered by some of the things people say about accepting and recovering. Idk Like sometimes I feel like my thoughts are so awful how could i ever come to accept that and let it roam free in my brain. I think that makes my fear worse especially when it comes to magical thinking :(
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