• SuperDuper@lemmy.world
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    Thoughts = literally any thought

    Intrusive thoughts = the type of thoughts we don’t particularly want to think because they make us uncomfortable, but they intrude into our stream of consciousness either way.

    It’s called being descriptive, and it lets people know exactly what kind of thought you’re referring to by adding a simple adjective before the word.

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      My stream of consciousness picks things up, not has things fall into it.

      It’s a matter of perspective.

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        what you’re failing to pick up on is that no one cares about how you handle your thoughts and you can stop talking about yourself as if we should all aspire to think the way you do. this thread has largely been about the shared experience of having what we call intrusive thoughts and you coming here and trying to hijack that by telling us we are doing it wrong was never going to be well received.

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          Cool story, glad your shared experiences are the only valid ones because it involves suffering.

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            we’re not suffering and you’re not a savior. stop trying to impose your way of thinking on a bunch of people. that’s one of the very first things one needs to learn in life to not be an insufferable person. i suppose the irony is that I was once like that and have learned to stop. but I can recognize it in an instant.