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Why Can't I Stop Thinking This?: Understanding OCD and Intrusive Thoughts - Softcover

Duran PhD, Dr David

 
9789935989703: Why Can't I Stop Thinking This?: Understanding OCD and Intrusive Thoughts
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9935989704 ISBN 13: 9789935989703
Verlag: Anyone Out There, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Why do certain thoughts feel impossible to ignore?
Why does the mind keep returning to the very things we fear most?

In Why Can’t I Stop Thinking This?, psychologist David Duran, PhD offers a clear, compassionate, and deeply reassuring guide to understanding OCD, intrusive thoughts, and the exhausting cycle of doubt, fear, and mental checking.

Whether your mind gets stuck on thoughts of harm, contamination, morality, relationships, identity, or the feeling that something is “not quite right,” this book explains why these thoughts happen, why they feel so real, and why trying to make them go away often makes them stronger.

Written in an accessible and thoughtful style, this book helps readers understand the hidden mechanisms behind obsessive-compulsive disorder, including:

  • intrusive and unwanted thoughts
  • mental compulsions and reassurance seeking
  • fear, doubt, and the need for certainty
  • harm OCD, contamination OCD, and “pure O” patterns
  • why thoughts do not reflect intentions or character
  • how OCD keeps the brain’s alarm system stuck
  • what recovery and healing actually feel like

Rather than offering empty reassurance, this book provides a powerful shift in perspective: your thoughts are not who you are.

Insightful, practical, and deeply validating, Why Can’t I Stop Thinking This? is for anyone living with OCD, supporting someone who is, or trying to make sense of a mind that feels trapped in endless loops of fear and uncertainty.

You are not alone, and you are not your thoughts.

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Verlag
Anyone Out There
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9935989704
ISBN 13 
9789935989703
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
170
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