i’ve been dealing with intrusive thoughts for 17 years now the more that i’ve come to accept that the thoughts are not my own as in i don’t agree with them and just allow them to flow i really don’t care anymore   there are themes that took me months to overcome and debilitated me that now no longer bother me anymore well not enough to do a compulsion or reel in the thought it really is true that the pain comes from the significance we put on the thought  but i agree with this painting