There is a sentence you will hear in almost every OCD treatment setting, said so often and so confidently that it has come to sound like a definition of the disorder itself: the problem with OCD is an intolerance of uncertainty, and the solution is to learn to tolerate it. It appears in self-help books, [...]
Note to readers:A condensed, peer-reviewed version of this article has been published in the Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders. That shorter version underwent independent peer review and is limited to 1,000 words in accordance with journal requirements. For those who prefer the concise, peer-reviewed version, a downloadable preprint is available here: [Link to published [...]
