Posted by Sigismund on January 28, 2010, at 22:32:09
In reply to Re: Can medications stop 'unhelpful' thoughts??????, posted by johnj1 on January 28, 2010, at 21:17:59
>Everyone has these types of thoughts from time to time. When you want them to go away that is when you strengthen them. The person without OCD just thinks "that was a weird thought" and lets it go. Us with pure "O" are very distressed by them and they cause us anxiety.
Absolutely.
We have freedom of thought, and this means all kinds of relatively meaningless crazy stuff comes unasked into our minds, and as you say, the scary thing is that you might conceivably do it, having freedom of action. That's the way it is. But the fact is (just about always) you don't.
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