Quotes About Intrusive Thoughts

#1. I tried to point out that it's not a gimmick to teach patients suffering with OCD that their intrusive thoughts and urges are caused by brain imbalances, and that we now know they can physically alter those imbalances through mindfulness and self-directed behavioral therapy techniques.

Jeffrey M. Schwartz

#2. OCD is an anxiety disorder, one that brings conscious intrusive thoughts and compulsions - 'Touch the bannister. Pick up that rock. You'd better do it, or something terrible will happen.'

Tim Howard

#3. Sir, married or unmarried, all women bleed.

Ronlyn Domingue

#4. I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head.

Thomas Harris

#5. The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you, you can feel it

Ted Trueblood

#6. I thought when the abuse stopped I could move on with my life. Instead I am still running from Brian. The only difference is now I am running from him in my dreams.

Erin Merryn

#7. I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.

Cam Newton

#8. I think you're used to being observed but not really ... seen.

Christina Baker Kline

#9. When are we going to talk about what causes you to use the Bible as a window and not a mirror?

Dharius Daniels

#10. The fear, though, is unassailable. The dark balls of dread pinball through my brain. This is what anxiety does to a brain, I know that. A barrage of intrusive, unwanted, and distressing thoughts that the person thinking them can't turn them off no matter how hard they try...

Lauren Miller

#11. Always remember, there is more strength in you than you ever realized or even imagined. Certainly nothing can keep you down if you are determined to get on top of things and stay there.

Norman Vincent Peale

#12. You want a better world ... ? Legalize pot right now ... end the deficit? Legalize pot right now ... biggest cash crop in America.

Bill Hicks

#13. It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.

George MacDonald

#14. Yes, I am a prisoner of sorts, but my prison isn't the house. It's my own thoughts that lock me up!

V.C. Andrews

#15. He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain himself to them. He who builds walls to create exclusion for others builds walls across his own freedom. He who distrusts freedom in others loses his moral right to it.

Rabindranath Tagore

#16. No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.

Rosemary Clooney

#17. He tried to sleep, but his head was filled with the faces of lunatics, their palsied hands, their shattered eyes.

Sebastian Faulks

#18. My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.

Buzz Aldrin