Understanding Intrusive Thoughts (Part 2)

How to Stop Intrusive Thoughts

https://www.restoredminds.com/5-Rules-For-Recovery

Stopping intrusive thoughts is a much more difficult task than you might think. In fact, I often here from people that struggle with these pestering thoughts that the more they try to stop intrusive thoughts…the more they seem to pop up.

So in this video I talk about some studies that were done in the late 1980’s / early 1990’s by Daniel Wegner that dealt with thought suppression. Now thought suppression is basically the act of trying to push away or not thing a particular thoughts, and these studies demonstrate that when a person suppresses a particular thought they are actually more likely to continue thinking about that forbidden thought.