ADAA Professional Blog: Busting Myths that Keep Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts Stuck

[ADAATeamRachel]

Have you ever been told that you can just control your intrusive thoughts? What about believing that you're a bad person because of those intrusive thoughts?

ADAA members Sally Winston, PsyD, and Martin Seif, PhD, ABPP, wrote a blog proving that those myths are incorrect and in fact, just myths.

"Believing even some of these myths can be responsible for ordinary intrusive thoughts becoming stuck. "

Read the full blog here: adaa.org/learn-from-us/from...

[Adlon57]

Believing in the myths of religion that are set upon you when young, the ideals and standards set by these sometimes set in the mind of a person for life, surely those are intrusive as the mind conjures up what are basically myths and legends as doubt evolves as a person gets older, causing mental anxiety ?