Uncertainty

22 06, 2026

It Was Never About Uncertainty

By |2026-06-24T03:13:56+00:00June 22nd, 2026|Doubt, Inference-based approach, Uncertainty|Comments Off on It Was Never About Uncertainty

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, [...]

15 01, 2026

OCD and Coconuts

By |2026-01-16T14:49:13+00:00January 15th, 2026|Imagination, Inverse Reasoning, Overestimating Threat, Uncertainty|1 Comment

How my brain turned a tropical snack into an existential threat My mind sometimes has trouble shutting down. So naturally, one afternoon, it latched onto coconuts. This happened in the Caribbean, where coconuts are everywhere, lounging under palm trees like they pay rent. Back home in Montreal, my usual habitat, coconuts are exotic celebrities you [...]

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