![]() Medication usually includes SSRIs ( selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) have been seen to be effective drug treatment. Intrusive thoughts treatment involves medication. Among psychotherapy methods like- cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and exposure and response prevention therapy have proven to be successful as part of Intrusive thoughts therapy. What’s most important to understand is that mental disorders like OCD can be treated only through psychotherapy and medication. But there are things one can do to deal with them and let go of the compulsions. ![]() ![]() One needs to understand that there is no magical way of shooing these thoughts away. For instance, uttering specific words or phrases that they consider as ‘good thoughts’ or words that make them feel less anxious or positive as an attempt to replace the so-called OCD bad thoughts. These are often done to try and neutralize intrusive or ‘bad thoughts’. Mental rituals are also considered obsessions. To put it briefly- obsession or obsessive thought cause anxiety and the action taken to relieve oneself from that fear/ anxiety is called ‘compulsion’. Let’s take another situation- say you have intrusive thoughts about hygiene or fear of contamination which compels you to form an extensive ‘cleaning ritual’. That’s when it might be considered an obsession. We all do that right? But now imagine feeling compelled to triple-check or check four, five, or 10 times. We all double-check if we locked the door, double-check the house keys, or if we switched the stove and the geyser off, and double-check the time of departure of the train or flight. Let’s understand this through an example. The ‘O’ in OCD stands for such intrusive thoughts that keep one obsessing over them till they do something about it. Constantly ruminating over these disturbing thoughts can hamper your professional, social, personal, or romantic relationships. Intrusive thoughts become obsessive when one cannot stop thinking about them no matter how hard they try. Now everyone experiences such thoughts once in a while, so how does it turn into OCD ( Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)?Ī lot of people with OCD ask ‘ Why do I get intrusive thoughts?’. Intrusive thoughts examples could be thoughts about hurting someone or imagining yourself saying something offensive or embarrassing in a public gathering, or thoughts of behaving in a sexually aggressive way. And ‘intrusive thoughts’ refer to thoughts or images or visualizations that are typically unwanted, uninvited, and are unpleasant. Intrusive literally means ‘an unwelcoming thing that makes you feel annoyed or disturbed.
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