
Kieron O'Connor - Inference Based Therapy (Ep 49)
The OCD Stories
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What's the Difference Between Normal Intrusion and Obsession?
When you have an obsessional thought, it tends to be very vivid. You tend to be very emot emotional about it. And they also tend to come about in context other and the normal context. For example, somebody who thinks a pole is contaminated will actually often see ily little insects running round,. ther imagine all sorts of things going on on the pole, wiin u. They'll find tem distressing and disgusting. So it's not just a normal intrusion. As a the people in the appraisal on would suggest the content may be similar, but everything else, or the other paramises, are not similar. There’s normal doubt, and theres pathological obsessional doubts
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