In recent years, the term food noise has quickly become common in public, clinical, and scientific contexts. It describes ...

The term “intrusive thoughts” has become common parlance from mental health creators on social media such as TikTok, and people have resonated with it. In psychiatry, we don’t usually talk about ...

Intrusive thoughts are sudden, involuntary thoughts, mental images or urges. They often cover difficult themes such as causing or experiencing harm, contamination, making a mistake, or sexual or ...

Intrusive thoughts and psychotic-like experiences among new parents are far more common than previously thought, according to new research. In a survey where over 300 parents who had a baby in the ...

Have you ever had a disturbing thought pop up into your head? Thoughts that are distressing, repetitive and unwanted are called intrusive thoughts. NPR's senior Visuals producer LA Johnson talks with ...

Intrusive thoughts are unwanted and distressing ideas or images that can appear suddenly and feel impossible to control. With obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), intrusive thoughts can become ...

Intrusive thoughts often feel stronger during periods of overload because stress narrows attention and raises the brain's threat response. When someone is feeling overwhelmed, emotionally overloaded, ...

Strategies to reduce harmful thoughts about food that are persistent, intrusive and distressing can help people better cope ...

The mind can wander to strange places. Sometimes those places and the images that come with them are unwanted, dangerous and negative. We all have intrusive thoughts, but some of us deal with them ...

We have thousands of spontaneous thoughts a day. Most of them are mundane, such as “Where did I leave my car keys?” But every now and then a strange and distressing thought might pop into our mind, ...