442 What 99% of People Get WRONG About Intrusive Thoughts
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist
4.9 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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In this episode, Kimberley Quinlan breaks down the most common misconceptions about intrusive thoughts and shares powerful, compassionate strategies to help you respond in a way that reduces anxiety and stops the OCD cycle.
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| 0:00.0 | If you've ever had an intrusive thought and it caused you to panic and make you wonder what |
| 0:06.3 | is wrong with me, you're not alone, but there is a chance that you're responding in a way |
| 0:13.6 | that is not helpful. And my goal today is to change that. |
| 0:19.7 | Today we're setting the record straight and we're addressing what 99% of people get wrong about |
| 0:27.3 | intrusive thoughts and we're talking about what to do instead. |
| 0:32.3 | Welcome. |
| 0:33.0 | My name is Kimberly Quinlan. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm an anxiety specialist. |
| 0:36.1 | You're here on your anxiety toolkit, |
| 0:38.3 | where we give you a virtual hug and all the strategic, helpful, effective and compassionate skills |
| 0:45.3 | to help you manage anxiety. So whether you have OCD, perfectionism, it doesn't matter. |
| 0:52.3 | Our goal today is to help you manage those intrusive thoughts so that you suffer less. |
| 0:59.2 | You're kinder to yourself and you don't get caught in OCD's trap. |
| 1:03.6 | So let's go. |
| 1:08.3 | Okay, so let's first start with the main point. You're not here for the fluff. You want to get |
| 1:14.3 | straight to it. Number one, what is an intrusive thought? Because this is often what people get wrong. |
| 1:21.3 | They hear about intrusive thoughts on TikTok and on Instagram and Snapchat and they have been |
| 1:27.1 | misled into thinking that intrusive thoughts |
| 1:29.8 | are just these little thoughts that pop into their head, that there are things that come and go |
| 1:34.1 | and that, you know, they might be about how you like your cookies to be arranged, or they might |
| 1:38.5 | be these fleeting thoughts, but the majority of people who have intrusive thoughts, and we all have them, may not |
| 1:46.9 | have them in the way that folks with OCD have them. When we have OCD, our intrusive thoughts are |
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