
2: On "Bad" Thoughts
Latter Day Struggles
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Anxiety Disorder
Valery: As a mother of young children, she was consistently managing the little bodies of her children. And so she would have sexual thoughts. The anxiety ramped up when she was changing a child's dip, holding her baby, and she was steing with a naked body. She'd move away from her children, go into her room, and spend hours, sometimes, trying to pray them away and make them stop. Valery: It started somewhere where, s she was told that having those thoughts are very bad and wrong,. So then she fixated on that, tried to control them.
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