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Nuclearsnot

Updated 1y ago

Dealing with Uncertainty: Tips Needed

Does anybody have any tips for dealing with uncertainty? I've become so obsessed with finding the answer to a personal issue that it's causing me a lot of stress and making me do an excessive amount of research. My brain wants to know right now and I still want to find an answer eventually but I cannot maintain this fixation

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PrettyPolar2

1y

Is it something you can actually fix, or is it something you wish you could fix? Also if you find the answer will you be calm or still fixate? I tend to do research on personal problems and it works well, but sometimes I am worried they will keep recurring.
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Nuclearsnot

1y

Whether the situation is fixable or not kinda depends on the answer and I would definitely feel content after figuring it out so it's not something I want to drop entirely, I just get too caught up on it and it's exhausting
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PrettyPolar2

1y

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Smeedance

1y

I used to really struggle with the same sort of issue, I needed to resolve an issue as soon as it came up and couldn't cope if I couldn't resolve it. My psychologist helped me regrade my 'inaction' as action. When you think about it inaction when you're emotional is actually more difficult than action, so even though you think you're not doing anything you're making a conscious decision not to do anything which in effect is doing something and it's doing something much harder than giving into the impulse of trying to do something. It helps me buy a bit of time to be a bit more rational in my approach to things (sometimes only a few minutes) which generally leads to a better outcome. I hope that helps, even if only a little bit.

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