Behavioral & Mental Health Conditions Series *Updating In January
Course overview
Lesson Overview

11.3 Intrusive Thoughts and Why They Stick: Intrusive thoughts stick because your brain mistakenly believes they are important or dangerous, so it keeps repeating them to protect you from a threat that doesn’t exist. You learn that everyone gets strange, dark, or uncomfortable thoughts, but most people let them pass without meaning anything. With OCD, the thought feels like it reveals something bad about you or predicts something awful that could happen, so you react with panic or guilt. That reaction tells your brain to keep the thought coming back. You practice seeing intrusive thoughts as random noise rather than messages. When you stop trying to stop the thought, argue with it, or clean it up with a ritual, it loses intensity. Intrusive thoughts do not define who you are—they are a glitch in the anxiety system, not your identity.

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A structured and empowering learning path that helps individuals understand, manage, and balance complex behavioral and mental health patterns. Through guided topics on OCD, ADHD, anxiety, trauma, depression, and other conditions, this series teaches self

This course includes:
  • Guided behavioral and emotional training

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