Similar intrusive thoughts may also waste emotional energy during dating.

Increased muscle tension and intrusive thoughts can interfere with sleep.

She didn't tell Trey the reason, because another, more intrusive thought immediately came to mind.

People who experience acute trauma, for example, may show extreme anxiety, sleep problems, and intrusive thoughts.

His focus on the door was interrupted by the same intrusive thought that had haunted him the night before.

The possibility that most patients suffering from intrusive thoughts will ever act on those thoughts is low.

One of these conditions is almost always present in people whose intrusive thoughts reach a clinical level of severity.

When patients with intrusive thoughts do not respond to treatment, physicians may suspect past physical, emotional, or sexual abuse.

Exposure therapy is the treatment of choice for intrusive thoughts.

This is the most effective way to reduce the frequency and severity of the intrusive thoughts.