Feelings and symtoms more intense when I started to accept ?

[[Tr...]]

So I have started to really accept this process and especially accept all intrusive thoughts for last few days which is pretty hard. I notice symtoms start to get more intense as I start to accept ? Is this normal? Pleas share what you think .

 

Thanks ,

 

Tracy

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Just accept that it i will not be enjoyed.

Stop expecting unicorns.

Almost perversely,  enjoy the pain.

It will set up what you need to live without benzos.

[[Ni...]]

So I have started to really accept this process and especially accept all intrusive thoughts for last few days which is pretty hard. I notice symtoms start to get more intense as I start to accept ? Is this normal? Pleas share what you think .

 

Thanks ,

 

Tracy

 

Acceptance, to me, is a general over-view/stance/policy - and a very good one.

 

I don't think it extends to accepting the content of intrusive thoughts - just the fact that you have them.

 

My take on it was to allow whatever thoughts arose - no trying to quell them or to avoid - and no opposing - letting them wander 'wherever', without judgement (or taking them 'seriously') but just observing them without engaging. And then there were new thoughts - and on it goes; they all fade away eventually.

 

All the best

[[He...]]

for me, accepting WD, is also dont question anything. Let the things be and give your best 

 

but congratualations for thinking the best way you can: you cant control this process directly, so acceptance is what you need.

[[Tr...]]

Thanks for replies. I'm so tired of this process I think I have suffered enough 14 months and still suffering not knowing when it will end .

[[Ma...]]

I SO relate. Acceptance is very hard: I feel like "if I accept these thoughts I'm going to be totally insane." Especially because my thoughts are so irrational/absurd. But the alternative didn't work for me. I'd either spend the whole day trying to get rid of the thought, or try to "figure out" the thoughts, as if I was solving a riddle--if I just reason it through enough I'll be done with it. But they're so irrational, and so not me.

 

I can never just "get rid of them," and I never can "figure them out." I still fall into these two traps daily, but I also try to accept the fact that I can't always accept the thoughts (if that makes sense). Like Nightwatch said, accepting that the thoughts are there without judgement, is not the same as accepting the content of the thoughts. You don't have to go "the thoughts are true!" I just try to go, okay, there there.

 

You'r not alone!