- Username
- Justagirla
- Date posted
- 30w ago
Uncertainty
How do I sit with uncertainty?? Like I understand that I should just let the thoughts be there and not do a compulsion, but HOW? I would appreciate any tips
- Username
- mynocdusernamemynocdusername
- Date posted
- 30w ago
I just talked about this with my therapist. He said the term “sitting with uncertainty” is actually better phrased as “moving on with uncertainty”. Instead of just sitting there, DO things while you’re uncertain. Go take a walk while being uncertain. Go for lunch while being uncertain. Do everything you want to do while allowing uncertainty to be there without compulsions.
- Username
- ivrecivrec
- Date posted
- 30w ago
To sit with uncertainty just let those thoughts come and go like clouds in the sky. Don’t assign any importance to the thoughts and allow the anxiety to occur without compulsions
- Username
- Steven55!Steven55!
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 30w ago
Try to remember this one bit if reality: if we don't feed the compulsions, given time the OCD episode will likely pass. Over time, it gets easier.
- Username
- NicaNica
- Date posted
- 30w ago
What the others who posted here have said 🥰
- Username
- JeanneJeanne
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 30w ago
I realized recently that I put such importance on some thoughts and not others. I know that is what we are told not to do. But I stopped for a moment and thought about another thought I had several days before. And it struck me just how absurd and silly this new thought was and why was it so much more important or meaningful than the previous thought. I guess I was briefly able to step back and see how skewed my perspective was. It’s really difficult in the midst of thoughts to step away but maybe for a moment my mind compared one thought to another and found it to be illogical. I’m too am in the deep hole of ocd right now. So maybe little by little I can step away and see just how meaningless and fruitless these thoughts are.
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