- Date posted
- 33w
Thought Action Fusion??
Hello! I am experiencing something right now that I was curious about. I experience this a lot with many themes, but I'll share today's example. I was talking with a female coworker and I remember getting the intrusive thought of "what if I kissed her?". This is not something I'd would want to do or do. For many reasons. The most important being I'm a happily married person who adores their wife. She is my best friend, so the idea of ever losing her (especially over doing something to cause it) destroys me. The thought came with instant stabs of anxiety. The thing that gets me hung up (and again I've been experiencing this a lot with many themes over the past year or so) is because I had the intrusive thought, I almost immediately worry "did I actually just DO it?" I then tell myself "you would remember doing that. There would be no doubt" but then I'm like what if I just instantly forgot or didn't realize...what if the thought was it actually happening? So is this what they call "thought action fusion"?. I've heard the term throughout the years but never fully knew what it meant. Is that what this is? I'm sitting with the fear/guilt/shame. I love my wife more than anything in this world so it hurts...but I know I can't engage too much. I'm just curious if this is an example of what they call Thought Action Fusion? Have you ever dealt with something like this?