MY THOUGHTS ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS HOW TO

MY THOUGHTS ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS HOW TO

In other words, we’re all taking our thoughts too seriously - and need to learn how to let the negative ones float on by. Wochner states that there are still common misperceptions about thinking that include how thoughts are meaningful links to the inner being of the thinker, and how our thoughts are sometimes considered bad omens for the future. Here is a sampling: “I had a thought that I didn’t want to leave fibromyalgia in the search box of my phone, lest I get it I had a thought about punching my husband in the face in bed… and I wasn’t even mad at him I had a thought that I should tear up the paper with my parents address on it before throwing it away to keep them safe.” And I do not have OCD.” She then shares a long list of many bizarre thoughts that she had recorded in just a few weeks’ time. In her piece, “ Bizarre Thoughts and Me: Confessions of an OCD Therapist,” psychotherapist Stacey Kuhl Wochner shares this: “I am a therapist who treats Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and I have bizarre thoughts.

People who suffer from OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) and anxiety often ruminate about the darkest of fears, as they have been shown to actually be more conscientious than the average person and, thus, obsess about whatever horrid thoughts come to the surface because they are so horrified that they are having them. In fact, thoughts are often in direct opposition to the thinker. And almost all of us would be dead or dying at this very moment due to concerning thoughts, which include deadly diseases, accidents, and, well, the fear of death itself.Īlthough Freud proposed that thoughts are innately related to who we are, the more modern system cognitive behavioral therapists follow is that thoughts are merely thoughts - not indicators that paint a picture of who we are. Our population would probably be at most a quarter of what it is today (think about all the worries that plague the minds of most parents).

If our thoughts, alone, were that powerful, then the world would have ended many a century ago (think about how long doomsayers have been predicting the end of time).

My thoughts are not your thoughts