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  2. Intrusive thought - Wikipedia

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    Intrusive thoughts may also be associated with episodic memory, unwanted worries or memories from OCD, [4] post-traumatic stress disorder, other anxiety disorders, eating disorders, or psychosis. [5] Intrusive thoughts, urges, and images are of inappropriate things at inappropriate times, and generally have aggressive, sexual, or blasphemous ...

  3. How to stop intrusive thoughts once and for all, according to ...

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    Start at one end of your body and squeeze your muscles for five seconds one after the other until you get to the muscles on the other end. As you squeeze, visualize the tightened muscle, exhale ...

  4. Obsessive–compulsive disorder - Wikipedia

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    Frequency. 2.3% [6] Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental and behavioral disorder in which an individual has intrusive thoughts (an obsession) and feels the need to perform certain routines (compulsions) repeatedly to relieve the distress caused by the obsession, to the extent where it impairs general function. [1][2][7] Obsessions ...

  5. Post-traumatic embitterment disorder - Wikipedia

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    Post-traumatic Embitterment disorder; Specialty: Psychiatry, Clinical psychology: Symptoms: Severe emotional symptoms and behavioral problems in direct temporal connection to the triggering event; recurring intrusive thoughts; avolition; dysphoric-aggressive-depressive mood; unspecific somatic symptoms; phobic avoidance of persons or places related to the triggering event; fantasies of ...

  6. Obsession vs. Compulsion: Effect on Actions and Thinking - AOL

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    Intrusive thoughts of harming your baby. Mentally repeating a prayer 10 times every time that thought comes up to stop it from happening. "I can only breathe the air within my house or I will get ...

  7. Psychological trauma - Wikipedia

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    Psychological trauma (also known as mental trauma, psychiatric trauma, emotional damage, or psychotrauma) is an emotional response caused by severe distressing events that are outside the normal range of human experiences. It must be understood by the affected person as directly threatening the affected person or their loved ones with death ...

  8. Treatments for PTSD - Wikipedia

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    PTSD or post-traumatic stress disorder, is a psychiatric disorder characterised by intrusive thoughts and memories, dreams or flashbacks of the event; avoidance of people, places and activities that remind the individual of the event; ongoing negative beliefs about oneself or the world, mood changes and persistent feelings of anger, guilt or fear; alterations in arousal such as increased ...

  9. Traumatic memories - Wikipedia

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    Children who have been exposed to traumatic events often display hippocampus-based learning and memory deficits. These children suffer academically and socially due to symptoms like fragmentation of memory, intrusive thoughts, dissociation and flashbacks, all of which may be related to hippocampal dysfunction. [3]