What Intrusive Thoughts Really Are
It is not what bothers you, it’s how it bothers you.
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5 min readFeb 26, 2023
I’m a therapist who has noticed more and more people use the term “intrusive thoughts” to embody any undesirable thought. I scrolled through TikTok the other day, and it seems that people are using it as a catchall for everything that bothers them.