Thoughts can be a very important part of our life, because they allow us to realize how we feel and act. They help us reflect and give meaning to our daily experience. The problem comes when they are obsessive thoughts and limit our actions. Not everything we think helps us, in fact, there are times when thoughts can become toxic. There are certain thoughts that, instead of helping us, block us and produce sensations such as anxiety and overwhelm. Normally, we reflect on our worries trying to find solutions to our problems. In this way, we come to discover new points of view that help us to manage in a more bearable way what happens to us.
However, this natural process of inner reflection does not always go as we expect, and instead of providing us with greater clarity, it clouds our judgment, entering into a spiral of negative thoughts that repeat themselves over and over again. Thoughts become intrusive in our mind and, if we pay attention to them, they can end up becoming obsessions that limit our actions. This need to reflect on what worries us can occur in any situation. For example, when we are at work, shopping or brushing our teeth. Without realizing it, they can occupy all our mental space, also affecting our mood. Obsessive thoughts are repetitive, recurrent and involuntary ideas, usually focused on worries.
Also, through fears and anxieties that prevent you from focusing your attention on the present. Anxiety and stress are the main cause of this type of thoughts, which can also affect your behaviors. Imagine a person who can't get the obsession that they are contaminated out of their head. This will probably cause him to clean more often and avoid places he considers dirty. These types of negative thoughts can also appear in the form of mental images that are repeated over and over again, without any control. It creates a kind of repetitive circle that can be very difficult to get out of. It is as if you were trapped in a hurricane of thoughts that circles over itself with overwhelming force.
Moreover, the need to think carefully is so intense that it can even be addictive: the more we try to stop thinking, the more obsessive thoughts appear. An intense anxiety disorder or a prolonged period of stress can provoke invasive thoughts that momentarily interfere with our daily work.
Being in contact with negative thoughts that produce fears and doubts is something natural in all people and at certain moments of life. Depending on how we relate to these thoughts, they will end up becoming obsessive. A thought becomes pathological when we start to believe in the thoughts and do not question them. People who suffer from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, or simply those people who are going through periods of anxiety.
In conclusion, all people have at some point in our lives thoughts that haunt our minds with unpleasant content, and that may be related to many issues related to everyday life (such as illness, sexuality, religion, cleanliness). Generally these thoughts we end up discarding them without giving them the greatest importance; but when they become more recurrent and intrusive, to the point of conditioning our psychic well-being and ultimately the performance of our daily activity, we speak of obsessions. People have the ability to create new thoughts continuously in order to be able to solve the problems that arise throughout our lives.
What do you think about obsessive thoughts?
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