Cartoons love the occasional cautionary ... relationships and other priorities may suffer. Distressing thoughts and patterns occur to everyone, so this process isn’t a mental illness in itself.

These grounding exercises use mental distractions to help redirect your thoughts away from distressing feelings and back to the present. Look at a detailed photograph or picture (like a cityscape ...

Cognitive defusion, or defusion as it is called for short, is a mindfulness process from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in which you observe your thoughts from a distance. One of the ...

And so, you can try various grounding techniques to reduce not just the symptoms of anxiety, but also bring awareness in your thought process ... help create space for distressing feelings in ...

IT’S ACTUALLY A PRETTY SERIOUS AND POTENTIALLY DEBILITATING PSYCHIATRIC DISORDER THAT’S CHARACTERIZED BY REPETITIVE, INTRUSIVE, AND VERY DISTRESSING THOUGHTS, FEARS, EVEN IMAGES. ACCORDING TO ...

Their formula is simple: they push the distressing memories out of their mind. Mamat herself is good at this. “It’s almost intuitive to be able to control my thoughts,” she says. Clinical ...

Sadia Gordon’s I’m Having Distressing Thoughts is a one woman show that delves into the ridiculous scenarios the chronically mentally ill and traumatised seem to end up in time and time again.

“If you have a very distressing thought, and you have to think it in order to reject or replace it, some of the damage has already been done.” Even if one rejects an involuntary ...