Have you ever had an unwanted thought or image stuck in your head? Usually, you can ignore it and move on. But sometimes, it just keeps popping right back up. You don’t want to have these sticky, ...

“I already messed up my plan by eating a piece of cake, so I might as well start my diet over again on Monday!” “I have a really bad headache. Could this be a brain tumor?!” “My coworker never says ...

In response to our book, Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts, we get hundreds of emails asking for clarifications and additional explanations. One of the largest group of messages concerns some ...

We all face our own irrational thoughts from time to time — we jump to conclusions, we make a mountain out of a molehill, or we worry about things that may not happen or probably will not happen. Most ...

Ruminating thoughts are excessive or repetitive thoughts about negative experiences. People can use various strategies to help stop rumination, such as distraction, mindfulness, and therapy. Many ...

You may have noticed a lot more chatter on TikTok these days about intrusive thoughts. While some people use the term to describe their random impulses to, say, open and close their fridge door ...

According to the American analytics and advisory company Gallup, employee engagement is the involvement and enthusiasm of employees in their work and workplace. In its recent publication, "The state ...

Today we’re obsessed with data. Experts in every industry are finding ingenious ways to measure and depict millions of data points every day. But data is virtually worthless unless someone can look at ...

The difference? Joyce's direct interior monologue presents Molly Bloom's unfiltered thoughts, complete with run-on sentences and no punctuation—it truly feels like someone's brain with the lid off.

Let’s say you are Professor Charles Xavier—you can hear thoughts, read minds, understand motivations, and foresee actions. You are at a dinner party, quietly observing the guests. You know what ...

Intrusive thoughts are sudden, involuntary thoughts. They can be distressing, and people may feel they have little control over them. They commonly occur with conditions such as anxiety and ...