Intrusive thoughts are terrifying. It’s a testament to our collective willpower that we haven’t horrifically murdered each other.

Also, I’m really glad the phrase “intrusive thoughts” came along. It made the whole thing a lot easier to talk about.

They aren’t intrusive thoughts, they’re just your thoughts, stop being afraid of thinking. Now if you lack impulse control, then we have a problem.

Intrusive thoughts are a big part of OCD. And they call them “intrusive thoughts.”

Maybe it’s OCD?

If intrusive thoughts legitimately affect their capacity to function then yes that would be a disorder, but not due to having them, only due to how they handle them differently from those that aren’t affected.

Any relation to OCD is outside of my experience.

The point is that intrusive thoughts are real.

And my point is that yes, they are real, they are also a figment of our imagination.

We don’t imagine them. They imagine us.

We are the result of them. We are the effluence of thoughts.