If you have OCD, your thoughts and images that cause you so much distress are more than likely not correct. You are probably making mistakes in your thinking, known as thinking errors or cognitive distortions. If you have OCD, your thoughts and images that cause you so much distress are more than likely not correct. You are probably making mistakes in your thinking, known as thinking errors or cognitive distortions. 

If you have intrusive thoughts,  you probably have looked for reassurance to help you cope with your thoughts’ content.  Even though it might feel like it helps, albeit short term, you are, in fact, doing more harm than good, and I want to talk to you about that today. I am going to talk about … Read more

Planning for bad things to happen, trying to prevent bad things, or expecting the worse take up time and can affect your mood and how you feel about yourself and can even stop you from getting things that you want from life. I want to talk about why you might need to plan for the … Read more

If you recognise yourself in the following statements, the following information on Thought Action Fusion is for you. If you believe that thinking about something makes it more likely to happen and think something ‘bad’ or ‘immoral’ is practically the same as having carried out the thought, you are suffering because of faulty beliefs. Thought … Read more

Many people with Intrusive Thoughts mistakenly think they do not have compulsions, but they will be there.  The compulsions not only make your intrusive thoughts worse, but they serve to keep them going. Intrusive Thoughts have also been termed Pure O, which stands for Pure Obsessional.  If you have Pure O, I can see why … Read more