Intrusive thoughts are sudden, involuntary thoughts, mental images or urges. They often cover difficult themes such as causing or experiencing harm, contamination, making a mistake, or sexual or ...

Youre carrying your baby down the stairs when an image suddenly flashes through your mind: You trip and drop her. Or youre pushing the stroller across the street and ...

Experts say that after childbirth, intrusive thoughts are common and mostly benign. Lindsay Clancy’s story provides a disturbing exception. Experts say that after childbirth, intrusive thoughts are ...

The term “intrusive thoughts” has become common parlance from mental health creators on social media such as TikTok, and people have resonated with it. In psychiatry, we don’t usually talk about ...

Have you experienced random, intrusive thoughts that seem to appear out of nowhere? Or thoughts that are in contrast to your personality, maybe a thought about intentionally hurting others, horrific ...

Have you ever been startled by a thought that seemed to come out of nowhere? Maybe it was a fearful thought: "What if something terrible happens?" A disturbing thought: "Why would I even think that?" ...

We have thousands of spontaneous thoughts a day. Most of them are mundane, such as “Where did I leave my car keys?” But every now and then a strange and distressing thought might pop into our mind, ...