A brief overview

Have you ever had upsetting, distressing, frightening thoughts that enter your mind—thoughts you don’t want, thoughts that scare you, and thoughts you can’t tell anyone, but they still come to haunt you? 

While these are just thoughts, and most of us experience them in our day-to-day life without much disruption, for some, experiencing these intrusive thoughts can severely impair the person and their well-being and cause great distress. At times, they can also lead to the development of different health conditions, including certain physical symptoms, which might show up without medical explanation.

Different people experience different types of these. Some of them get sexual intrusive thoughts or simply sexual thoughts, others get aggressive thoughts or violent thoughts, and then there are those who get blasphemous thoughts. No matter what "type" of these thoughts one might get, such thoughts are so embarrassing at times that the person cannot even share them with their family member, let alone be social workers or wellness professionals. This adds further to their distress. 

Conventionally, it was believed that such thoughts are characteristics of people diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorders, anxiety disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder and so forth. But recent peer-reviewed studies suggests that such intrusive thoughts are common in even otherwise healthy individuals.

Popular practices of helping oneself involve attempts at thought suppression—but that helps only a little. One needs more strategies than distraction to help in a better way. This audiobook is an attempt to bring you the solution for getting rid of unwanted and intrusive thoughts in a crisp and simple format.

If you are experiencing a lot of distress and no form of self-help seems to be helping you, then you should seek proper medical help. There are also a lot of help available for such individuals with a mental health professional who might use cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to modify their unhealthy thinking pattern or psychoanalysis to uncover the underlying mental health condition or some other variation of therapy.

About the instructor: Dr Jhuma Basak has 20+ years of clinical experience as a psychoanalyst. In the past, she has completed her PhD in Psychology from Kyushu University in Japan. In addition, she has gained her training and understanding of the working of the human mind from the Indian Psychoanalytical Society in affiliation with the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) in London. In the past two decades of her clinical practice, she has helped thousands of people with emotional difficulties. This audiocourse summarizes her hard-earned knowledge spanning more than 20 years so that you can learn techniques that are tried and tested to help yourself in the shortest period of time.

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