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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 ...
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 ...
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 are persistent ...
Rumination (psychology) Rumination appears closely related to worry. Rumination is the focused attention on the symptoms of one's mental distress. In 1998, Nolen-Hoeksema proposed the Response Styles Theory. [1][2], which is the most widely used conceptualization model of rumination. However, other theories, have proposed different definitions ...
Primarily obsessional obsessive–compulsive disorder, also known as purely obsessional obsessive–compulsive disorder (Pure O), [1] is a lesser-known form or manifestation of OCD. It is not a diagnosis in the DSM-5. [2] For people with primarily obsessional OCD, there are fewer observable compulsions, compared to those commonly seen with the ...
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 ...
Perseverative cognition[1][2] is a collective term in psychology for continuous thinking about negative events [3] in the past or in the future (e.g. worry, rumination and brooding, but also mind wandering about negative topics [4][5]). It has been shown to have physiological effects, such as increased heart rate, blood pressure and cortisol ...
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD, sometimes hyphenated C-PTSD) is a stress-related mental disorder generally occurring in response to complex traumas, [1] i.e., commonly prolonged or repetitive exposures to a series of traumatic events, within which individuals perceive little or no chance to escape. [2][3][4]