Thoughts that eats you

Thought are forms created in the mind or an instance of thinking (English app). It is a normal thing for people to think,in fact it is one of the factor that made up human being . But when your thought start moving to the extreme then it is far from normal --- this is people idea.

Thought like accident, death of relative or oneself, sexual immoralities etc are consider to be bad thought by the owner of such thought but bad as it may be it forms or occur in everyone mind, "no one is exempted" said a psychologist.

Every day we all engage in this thought though we may not take notice of it. This kind of thought was named as Intrusive thought, it is rampant among the youth and when couple with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) it becomes major causative of depression.

The degree of occurrence of this thought differs a lot, with people that like movie being the major victim. For instance, thought like sexual immoralities are always gotten from movie, while thought like killing other, accident, can be from an experience.

When intrusive thought comes to mind some don't take notice of it they let the thought pass away but it is not like this for many people they try to take the thought away from their mind and this increase it occurrence.

"I always thought of dashing towards a moving car" said by Intrusive thought victim. While some people may see such thought as a silly thought and move on with their daily work, it is not the case for some people,they began to reason the thought and thought like "am I crazy" follows. By proving that they are not mad they try as much as possible to get the thought away from their mind, which does noting than to reinforce the thought.

In the proces of fighting this thought, depression sets in and some may have a nervous breakdown. It is not likely for person having this thought to kill himself except in some few cases where the victim can no longer cope, such occurrence rarely happen in Africa.

It is not only irreligious people that have this thought, has many people believe, it's also common in religion circle. There have been cases of people getting depressed because they failed in getting some blasphemous thought, sinning thought out of their mind.

Enough on the problem, let get down to solution
These are the four solution that can help battle intrusive thought, it include :

1). God : have faith in God and also engage yourself in reading his word daily, by doing so your mind will be cleansed from the accumulated bad experience.

2). Exposure Therapy : This is also called facing your fear. That particular intrusive thought that comes to your mind have power over you because you are afraid of such act.
When the thought comes e.g hurting your kid or young ones,do not move away from that environment, stay and fight that fear and with time such thought will loose it meaning.

3). Let it pass away as it comes to your mind, do not reason with it and you will find out it just a silly thought.

4). Medication : There are some drug that have been discover to cure this thought especially when it comes with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (performing a non productive act repeatedly). I will urge you to visit a psychologist for prescription.
Again you are not mad it is a normal thought just that everyone keep quiet about it especially in Africa.

I hope it help

Written by ATAd.