Tonight, what are we doing? What are we up to? Well, we're doing a talk on unwanted intrusive thoughts,

and that's always an important topic is it not repetitious intrusive

thoughts are associated not only with chronic stress anxiety anxiety disorders, insomnia, avoidance coping, but also burnout, exhaustion as they use up glutamate.

They can exacerbate personality disorders

as well as exacerbate chronic stress

and so forth. intrusive unwanted thoughts are so compelling they can feel

impossible to put aside why is that they emphasize fears about our safety, the safety of people we love and care about,

our sanity, they can come with just repetitive words or troubling visuals, they can question our value and integrity for no reason whatsoever.

So what's going on?

Why do we have repetitive intrusive thoughts? So we're going to cover that. And before I do, I just want to say that why is it that sometimes we can remember things and

sometimes we forget why is it that if somebody if you read something right before going to bed you might very well forget it the next day even though was the last thing you were consciously aware of, whereas something that you heard on the radio right before a

a accident in a car or on the other hand during a really positive emotional event

such as the day you meet a person who becomes very important in your life, certain things

we learn can be stuck there forever. The function of the hippocampus, which is what lies at the heart of volitional memories that you can recall it well.

So if you ever want to learn something,

if you ever want to remember something,

try to either associate it

with a really positive event in your life by bringing to mind something

that you really love or someone that you really cherish or some event that was really important.

If you hold that in mind while you also try to remember the new information,

chances are it'll help your hippocampus lead to that long-term

pretentiation that helps synaptic clefts learn new information but you know all. So let's jump into why do we have

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