How to cope with making a mistake?
I’ve had OCD for 20 years. Being afraid of being wrong is not the worst of my issues, but I’m finding myself mentally looping over making a an honest mistake and I’m looking for support or advice on how others deal with this.
It was at my job and with a customer. I’m not going to go into details about my work but let’s say I was tasked with finding an answer for my customer. She had a unique situation and I tried hard to explore all the avenues I could to get her the right result. My work is NOT medically related or anything that has actual serious consequences for telling someone an inaccurate thing. Anyway I gave her my best guess after thinking it over as best I could. But I knew something felt off and later when I thought more about it, I realized I probably gave her the wrong answer. I run my own business, am very new at it and care a lot about serving customers well and building positive referrals. Thing is this customer seemed happy with my help, and I don’t foresee her coming back to complain about anything in the future but if she did, I’d be more than happy to discuss it with her.
Now since then, I’ve been beating myself up and feeling like I wasted her time and money bc I possibly gave her incorrect guidance and am having this moral dilemma over it. I know I need to just take this as a learning experience, acknowledging I did my absolute best in the moment and move on, but I am struggling with obsessive and negative thoughts about it like I’m a failure or a fraud. Help :(