The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
So intrusive thoughts can be anything from, as they often are, they can be markers of something that is traumatic, something that's underneath the surface, something that is really bothering us, that we've shoved down, that's making guilt shame distress vulnerability. That's very often the case. But sometimes intrusive thoughts are a marker of like, oh, right. That's the thing to pay attention to.
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So intrusive thoughts can be anything from, as they often are, they can be markers of something that is traumatic, something that's underneath the surface, something that is really bothering us, that we've shoved down, that's making guilt shame distress vulnerability.
But sometimes intrusive thoughts are a marker of like, oh, right. That's the thing to pay attention to.
So if if I keep telling myself that that nothing's going to be okay. Like why am I saying that? You know, am I so afraid that nothing's going to be okay that I'm trying to save myself from the shock of nothing being okay? Maybe, right? Maybe that's going on. Am I just so afraid about something? You know, something happened in the past, someone was hurt or there was a loss and and now the intrusive thoughts tell me that things can't be okay. But what it's telling me is I haven't processed that loss. Like there's there is is going to be a meaning. There is is a meaning to intrusive thoughts. There always is.