Anxiousaddie
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 4y
smariesmarie
- Date posted
- 4y
It's a challenge, but just sitting with the urge to review and not reviewing. Learning to sit with the thought itself as well as "maybe it happened. Maybe it didn't."
Anonymous321Anonymous321
- Date posted
- 4y
Remind yourself that if u didn’t rmemeber it then, it’s not important enough to remember now
AnxiousaddieAnxiousaddie
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 4y
What do you mean? For me i had thought of something from the past and was so anxious and then i was unsure if it really happened like that and now i feel like i need to review
Maybe,MaybeNotMaybe,MaybeNot
- Date posted
- 4y
I actually disagree with this- at least based on my own personal experience because it didn’t work for me. I have found that to be a form of self reassurance. Because then it just leads to but WHAT IF I really just didn’t remember until now. I have learned that I HAVE TO accept that they very worst case scenario may have occurred and I have to live with it and choose to love myself unconditionally anyway.
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