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Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: A CBT-Based Guide to Getting Over Frightening, Obsessive, or Disturbing Thoughts
Your brain is not a crime scene. A thought is just a thought. 🧠
Who it's for
If a thought has horrified you and you've started to wonder what it says about you, this book starts by taking the shame out of it.
Frightened, ashamed→Relieved, equipped
Feelings it meets
What it is
A practical cognitive-behavioural guide to the kind of thoughts people are most afraid to say out loud: sudden violent, sexual, blasphemous or "what if I snap" thoughts. The authors explain why these thoughts appear in ordinary minds, why fighting or suppressing them makes them stickier, and how to change your relationship to them.
Where to find it
Paperback, ebook and audiobook from major booksellers and New Harbinger; available in many libraries.
Before you start
Heads up: Examples of disturbing intrusive thoughts.
Age: Not rated (adult self-help; suggested 16+)
Out, damned spot! out, I say!William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 1
