When doubt keeps coming backStep 1 of 9

Before you read on

This course explains waswasa and it does not treat it. The treatment with the best evidence, exposure and response prevention, works by staying with the uncertainty without doing the thing that quiets it, and it is worked out step by step with a trained therapist. Nothing here asks you to do that, and you should not build it for yourself from an article. If the doubt is taking hours of your days, lesson six is about finding the right person.

Lesson 5 of 6

One. Reassurance, from anybody

Asking again. Being told again. It is the most socially acceptable compulsion there is, because it looks like seeking knowledge and it involves other people who are being kind to you.

Reassurance works the way checking works. It brings the anxiety down now and raises the need for it later. The people giving it are usually doing so out of love and have no idea they are helping the loop along.