Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: A CBT-Based Guide to Getting Over Frightening, Obsessive, or Disturbing Thoughts

by Sally M. Winston PsyD

But let’s look at what you have done. You have created a “stuck” thought! The content of the thought is carrots, which is about as uncontroversial and non-upsetting as can be, but that thought has become stuck in your mind.