Need help

How can I accept OCD thoughts when they are very emotional for me—like the fear of losing my own child? That is my worst-case scenario. How do I accept that? Please help, I don’t know how to do it. Please don’t tell me nothing will happen because I know anything is possible in this world. Also, my OCD tells me If anything happens to your child in the future, you won’t be able to accept it or live with it.Is that true? What if something like that actually happens one day—will I be able to accept it and live? I’m scared I won’t be able to survive it. I also feel like I can’t accept it or live through it. It feels like the worst thing that could ever happen to anyone. How can someone accept something like that and go on living? I don’t want to go through anything like that. I don’t want to lose the people I love. These thoughts are killing me inside. Please help me—I don’t know how to face this.

@Shopiya I think OCD likes to play on emotions and catastrophic thinking because I do the same thing, just not about a child. I have a fear that I’ll always be in excruciating pain forever and that it’ll never go away or that my body will always be broken. The only thing that has begun to work is repeated exposure to the idea that “maybe I will be in pain my whole life - but by obsessing over the idea of what if I’m in, I miss out on everything right in front me”. If you’re so focused on you losing your child, you might be missing out on seeing them grow up in a positive light. Take a step back and try to recognize that what your feeling is just the result of an over-sensitized system and that these thoughts are nothing more than thoughts - they can’t harm your child, and there is no way of knowing what might or might not happen to them. It’s hard, anxiety inducing, and incredibly distressing to work though - but that’s the work.

@MachineAffair People are saying I need to accept the worst scenario, but they are also telling me to accept it as just a thought. What should I do?