ELI5- Why do you sometimes find yourself thinking things you don’t want to think?
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we call these “intrusive thoughts” ……..I dont think we have a great and agreed upon explanation for them. the one I like the most is that they act as kind of a self check; like knowing that you had this odd thought to act self destructive but activly choosing to decide its bad and not act on it.
we do know that they occour cross culturally, and at all ages…..so its something deep within the human psyche
[https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/managing-intrusive-thoughts#](https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/managing-intrusive-thoughts#)
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