A short YouTube #shorts by Danielle Jhiani offering brief practical tips to build self-trust for people with OCD. This chunk covers Tip 1: change how you respond to intrusive or fear-based thoughts — either ignore them or accept the thought and uncertainty, then move on — and emphasizes learning helpful coping mechanisms instead of unhelpful ones.
I'm going to help you learn how you can build more self trust when you have ocd. Number one, start responding to the thoughts differently. Either you just don't give them attention at all, or you learn to accept the thoughts, accept the uncertainty and move on with your life. You learn to trust yourself and not fear. You learn to trust what you think when you're not afraid. You don't trust the fear based thoughts, you, you don't trust the fear based feelings, you trust yourself outside of that. You learn what the unhelpful coping mechanisms are and then you learn helpful coping mechanisms.
