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When intrusive thoughts occur with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), patients are less able to ignore the unpleasant thoughts and may pay undue attention to them, causing the thoughts to become more frequent and distressing. [7] Attempting to suppress intrusive thoughts often cause these same thoughts to become more intense and persistent. [11]
None of us can escape intrusive thoughts, the random and usually off-putting musings that include visions of shoving your hand through the center of a beautifully decorated cake or a bridge ...
Here’s what intrusive thoughts really are and what treatments are available.
Some religions' rigorous and meticulous rules may cause misinterpretation of intrusive thoughts, as well as a persistent desire to control these ideas and guilt. These ideas cause the individual to obsess over hypothetical reality even though their sensory evidence suggests otherwise in order to maintain being ‘virtuous’ and an ingroup member.
An example of moral TAF is a mother who has an intrusive thought of hurting her child. The mother may feel she is a danger to the child; she considers her thoughts as evidence for her ostensible abuse. Some research indicates an increased likelihood of moral TAF with some religions and cultures that hold thoughts and actions morally equivalent. [9]
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There is a difference for individuals who have a higher tendency of suppression; they are more prone to psychopathological responses such as "intrusive thoughts, including depression, anxiety and obsessional thinking". [37] Due to these individuals having higher instances of thought suppression, they experience dream rebound more often.
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