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LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The functional difference is:

Thoughts == benign shit passing through your brain that cause no personal discomfort.

Obtrusive thoughts == shit that intrudes on your regular internal monologue and causes discomfort or fixation.

It’s fine to have such thoughts, and it’s also fine to acknowledge that you don’t want them. Like I’m trying to get on with my day, but now my brain is playing a vivid horror show and I just want to finish my TPS report, not walk through every moment of myself shattering Steve’s skull with the fire axe because he can’t figure out how to use the collate function on the printer.

Sure, you can embrace that shit as fictional, but it’s distracting in the moment.

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