Intrusive Thoughts

Unacceptable thoughts –  Intrusive Thoughts

If you suffer with these then you are probably suffering with a condition  that is part of OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)

Examples include: thoughts or images about sex (e.g. being a paedophile when you are not) or about being violent (stabbing a baby when that is totally against your values and beliefs), immoral or sacrilegious (when you are religious). Thoughts about killing yourself (when you don’t want to) or doubts about whether you truly love your partner (when you do). Doubts about your sexual orientation (for example being gay when you are actually not gay)

Existential Obsessions: Why do I exist? What will happen when I die? Am I in a computer program like the Matrix? Will God be offended? Have I left another world behind? Am I in the wrong place? Are the people around me real? Do I have a head?

This is a treatable condition – don’t suffer alone – contact me and ask for help. Below I have attached some more info for you to read

    1. Case study and treatment: Paul’s blasphemous and immoral sexual thoughts
    2. There is hope
    3. Clinically ‘Bad Thoughts’
    4. How do I not know whether I will act on my ‘Bad Thoughts’?
    5. The content of your obsessions and how they relate your values
    6. When Bad Thoughts Are Dangerous
    7. How can I be certain?

Many of the articles above are taken from: ‘Overcoming Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques’ (2021) by David Veale and Rob Willson and The Imp of the Mind: Exploring the Silent Epidemic of Obsessive Bad Thoughts by Lee Baer 

Exposure Therapy

  1. General Introduction to Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) – including creating an hierarchy of exposures
  2. Introduction to Exposure Therapy for Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts

In the world (In-Vivo) Exposure

  1.  Sexual Obsessions About Young Men
  2. Violent Thoughts (includes listening to a recorded script)
  3.  Actual Exposures Used in In Vivo Exposure

Exposure Through Audio Recordings (Imaginal)

  1. Frieda’s fear she will hurt her baby
  2. Gail’s audio script about her fear of hurting her baby
  3. Actual Text of Exposure Audiotapes for Bad Thoughts
  4. Guidelines for writing your script