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Intrusive thoughts are your brain’s junk mail

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Your brain randomly suggests terrible ideas, like tossing your phone into a river, just to make sure you are still paying attention. These sudden, awful thoughts are basically cognitive spam that you can fortunately choose to ignore.

Intrusive thoughts are your brain’s junk mail
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