Murray is a Forbes news reporter covering entertainment trends. “Intrusive thoughts” has become a TikTok catchphrase for people describing random—sometimes fun or quirky—impulses, but the actual ...

Intrusive thoughts and psychotic-like experiences among new parents are far more common than previously thought, according to ...

You may have noticed a lot more chatter on TikTok these days about intrusive thoughts. While some people use the term to describe their random impulses to, say, open and close their fridge door ...

None of us can escape intrusive thoughts, the random and usually off-putting musings that include visions of shoving your hand through the center of a beautifully decorated cake or a bridge collapsing ...

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Stress: When you’re going through a period of increased stress or feeling anxious about a traumatic or stressful event, you may have more intrusive thoughts than usual. Hormonal changes: Hormonal ...

You’ve had a date night worthy of a (non-cringy) Bachelor episode. The romance? Off the charts. The mood? Lit. And then it happens. OCD-related intrusive thoughts burst into the bedroom. Indeed, ...

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The human brain is capable of having a thousand thoughts in a single day. Some thoughts may be reasonable and worthy, while some may be unusual and dangerous. The irrelevant thoughts, ideas, and ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

We receive frequent inquiries in the form of requests for reassurance that a particular sticky unwanted thought qualifies to be treated as a bonafide unwanted intrusive thought. People offer the ...