Dr. Alex George

You're trying to warn me that tomorrow could be something problematic.

But right now, there's nothing to do, so I'm just going to let you sit there.

I accept you.

You're welcome to stay, but I'm still going to drink my cup of tea.

And it's something you can practice and you can get better at.

And it's something that's used a lot in OCD, but it's applicable to any sort of uncertainty.

It's saying, hey, maybe, maybe not.

Who knows?

You might be right.

It could be terrible tomorrow.

It could be a great day.

You know, sometimes the best days of my life started off terribly and they ended up being the best days.

Some of the worst days have been amazing and ended up badly.

So a lot of the time it's going, we don't know what's coming, but we'll deal with it.

Because really, if you look at it this way, if you take it a step further, that...

For example, anxiety, which OCD is effectively a form of anxiety, right?

It's kind of a form of anxiety disorder because anxiety is the predominant emotion that you feel.

You know, anxiety is that intolerance of uncertainty.

But really, we dig even deeper.

You don't feel you can trust yourself to deal with something happening.