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In our previous article, we explored why some thoughts become more salient than others. In this article, we will explore why some thoughts just won’t leave. How The Brain Normally Focuses On One Thought After Another Attention is supposed to be temporary. The brain is supposed to attend to specific information for a certain period…
Continuing our session with Claire. She is having images on her mind in which her house burns down, and these are followed by compulsive checking rituals. In the previous part, part 1, we tried to help her see that the image on her mind is a thought, not the reality. In this part, we are working…
Our session with Claire was supposed to start 15 mins ago. While wondering why she might have been late, I was sitting on my chair enjoying my cup of coffee as I heard a car engine stopped. She must have arrived. Less than a minute, she was there, standing at my office door. C: Hello,…