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OCD cant stand uncertainty, so would believing in fate, alleviate the uncertainty?

Believing that whatever the universe has cooked up for you is predetermined, all your choices and all your actions, all laid out, and all you can do is do / feel the best you can given the circumstances in the present moment.

I wonder if any devoutly religious folks who believe in fate and a higher power, suffer from OCD?

I’ve been agnostic for as long as I can remember, so I wouldn’t know.

You know the ones, with the little batter barrow on the long hotplate?

I miss the chicken and mushroom cream ones.

Does any food court still have them?

Anywhere outside of kensington to get a good Nasi Kuning?

I got this little tidbit from the book “Atomic Habits”. Our brain is an answer factory, it creates answers from the questions you ask it.

So never leave the brain with a crappy question like “Do I have [insert illness here]?”, it will always find a crappy answer for you.

Leave it with “What would a healthy person think?”

E.g. “I feel [symptom], could it be [illness]? What would a healthy person think?”

In this instance I take health to mean mental health.

This has helped me a lot lately, I hope it can help others here.

It helps me feel like a part of the rest of the world, rather than some protagonist from a tragic story.

I like to say to myself, “You are normal people” to remind my