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intrusive thoughts

intrusive thoughts

mental events that interrupt the flow of task-related thoughts in spite of efforts to avoid them. Minor intrusions are normal and widespread (see mind wandering). Upsetting intrusions are common after trauma and in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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