--- product_id: 39342356 title: "Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: A CBT-Based Guide to Getting Over Frightening, Obsessive, or Disturbing Thoughts" price: "₹ 2532" currency: INR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.in/products/39342356-overcoming-unwanted-intrusive-thoughts-a-cbt-based-guide-to-getting store_origin: IN region: India --- # CBT Techniques Practical Strategies Mental Clarity Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: A CBT-Based Guide to Getting Over Frightening, Obsessive, or Disturbing Thoughts **Price:** ₹ 2532 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🧘‍♂️ Banish the Noise, Embrace the Calm! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: A CBT-Based Guide to Getting Over Frightening, Obsessive, or Disturbing Thoughts - **How much does it cost?** ₹ 2532 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.in](https://www.desertcart.in/products/39342356-overcoming-unwanted-intrusive-thoughts-a-cbt-based-guide-to-getting) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Step-by-Step Guidance:** Navigate through practical exercises designed for real-life application. - • **Science-Backed Methods:** Utilize proven strategies that are grounded in psychological research. - • **Transform Your Mindset:** Unlock the power of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to conquer intrusive thoughts. - • **Empower Your Mental Health:** Gain tools to manage and reduce anxiety effectively. - • **Join a Community of Growth:** Connect with others on the journey to mental wellness and share your progress. ## Overview This guide offers a comprehensive approach to overcoming unwanted intrusive thoughts through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). It provides readers with practical exercises, scientific insights, and a supportive framework to reclaim their mental clarity and emotional well-being. ## Description You are not your thoughts! In this powerful book, two anxiety experts offer proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills to help you get unstuck from disturbing thoughts, overcome the shame these thoughts can bring, and reduce your anxiety. If you suffer from unwanted, intrusive, frightening, or even disturbing thoughts, you might worry about what these thoughts mean about you. Thoughts can seem like messages— are they trying to tell you something? But the truth is that they are just thoughts , and don’t necessarily mean anything. Sane and good people have them. If you are someone who is plagued by thoughts you don’t want—thoughts that scare you, or thoughts you can’t tell anyone about—this book may change your life. In this compassionate guide, you’ll discover the different kinds of disturbing thoughts, myths that surround your thoughts, and how your brain has a tendency to get “stuck” in a cycle of unwanted rumination. You’ll also learn why common techniques to get rid of these thoughts can backfire. And finally, you’ll learn powerful cognitive behavioral skills to help you cope with and move beyond your thoughts, so you can focus on living the life you want. Your thoughts will still occur, but you will be better able to cope with them—without dread, guilt, or shame. If you have unwanted thoughts, you should remember that you aren’t alone. In fact, there are millions of people just like you—good people who have awful thoughts, gentle people with violent thoughts, and sane people with “crazy” thoughts. This book will show you how to move past your thoughts so you can reclaim your life! This book has been selected as an Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Self-Help Book Recommendation —an honor bestowed on outstanding self-help books that are consistent with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and that incorporate scientifically tested strategies for overcoming mental health difficulties. Used alone or in conjunction with therapy, our books offer powerful tools readers can use to jump-start changes in their lives. Review: Is it Worth it? (OCD Book Review) - The goal of going to therapy for most people for intrusive thoughts is to help if not rid them of the shame, fear and secrecy that surrounds these thoughts. The thoughts themselves will never leave. With that said I think this book is an excellent companion or stand alone text. I have always been an advocate of sufferers diving head first into learning all they can about their disorders, being proactive and advocating for themselves with this knowledge if possible. No one wants to go to therapy or take medicine and feel like that is all that is keeping them afloat. This book does an excellent job of pinpointing the problem in an easy to understand manner and providing doable solutions to help. Personally this book has helped me and I hope that mental health practitioners read this book to get a better understanding of OCD sufferers with intrusive thoughts as well as recommend this book for those that do. I was so satisfied with this book that I did not hesitate to buy "Needing to know for sure by the same authors". As well I do not hesitate to re-read when I get off track or my OCD is being extremely persistent and I feel overwhelmed. This book helps me get back on track to start pinpointing what is going on and redo-ing steps to get it back under control. It is always hard, as OCD tends to be, but I am thankful to have such a reference that is easy to understand and laid out well enough to implement. This is the information I wish I had at my fingertips when I first started therapy. Review: The best $10 I ever spent: A must-read for anyone dealing with intrusive thoughts - I have been dealing with OCD and intrusive thoughts in some form for nearly my entire life. Over the past year, it had gotten to the point where I'd often become so anxious with my obsessions, that I wouldn't want to leave the house or go do anything, and would just puzzle through things for a couple hours. After a couple of counselors (one excellent, one useless), I came across this book. I'm generally skeptical of self-help books, but given the authors' credentials, I thought I'd give it a shot. I'm very glad I did, because from the first chapter, it was clear they knew exactly what they were talking about. Their descriptions and examples were so accurate, it was as if I wrote them myself. Some features of this book: - Plenty of examples: You're very likely to find your particular worry in here, or something very close. - Scientific background: The book is very accessible, but any claims the authors make are based in valid scientific research. The authors provide proper names to some of the causes and symptoms of intrusive thoughts (and sometimes citations) so it's easy to do your own research and find bonafide scholarly papers back up their claims. This was especially helpful for a skeptic like me. - Very practical advice: The authors provide specific steps for dealing with intrusive thoughts as they happen, and for the long term. There is no wishy washy meditation, and no crap. These techniques led to immediate and dramatic results for me. Dr. Winston and Dr. Seif: If you ever happen to read this, I'd like to sincerely thank you for helping me get my life back. I used to have a terrible spell of anxiety for a day or two every week, and now I occasionally have a small setback once a month or so. I can actually wake up in the morning and expect to feel like myself throughout the day. Even if that's where my improvement ends, it was well worth the $10 price of admission. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #6,038 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #3 in Popular Neuropsychology #3 in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder #16 in Anxieties & Phobias | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 4,825 Reviews | ## Images ![Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: A CBT-Based Guide to Getting Over Frightening, Obsessive, or Disturbing Thoughts - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71HIBvtOgsL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Is it Worth it? (OCD Book Review) *by C***A on September 11, 2020* The goal of going to therapy for most people for intrusive thoughts is to help if not rid them of the shame, fear and secrecy that surrounds these thoughts. The thoughts themselves will never leave. With that said I think this book is an excellent companion or stand alone text. I have always been an advocate of sufferers diving head first into learning all they can about their disorders, being proactive and advocating for themselves with this knowledge if possible. No one wants to go to therapy or take medicine and feel like that is all that is keeping them afloat. This book does an excellent job of pinpointing the problem in an easy to understand manner and providing doable solutions to help. Personally this book has helped me and I hope that mental health practitioners read this book to get a better understanding of OCD sufferers with intrusive thoughts as well as recommend this book for those that do. I was so satisfied with this book that I did not hesitate to buy "Needing to know for sure by the same authors". As well I do not hesitate to re-read when I get off track or my OCD is being extremely persistent and I feel overwhelmed. This book helps me get back on track to start pinpointing what is going on and redo-ing steps to get it back under control. It is always hard, as OCD tends to be, but I am thankful to have such a reference that is easy to understand and laid out well enough to implement. This is the information I wish I had at my fingertips when I first started therapy. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The best $10 I ever spent: A must-read for anyone dealing with intrusive thoughts *by J***W on August 30, 2018* I have been dealing with OCD and intrusive thoughts in some form for nearly my entire life. Over the past year, it had gotten to the point where I'd often become so anxious with my obsessions, that I wouldn't want to leave the house or go do anything, and would just puzzle through things for a couple hours. After a couple of counselors (one excellent, one useless), I came across this book. I'm generally skeptical of self-help books, but given the authors' credentials, I thought I'd give it a shot. I'm very glad I did, because from the first chapter, it was clear they knew exactly what they were talking about. Their descriptions and examples were so accurate, it was as if I wrote them myself. Some features of this book: - Plenty of examples: You're very likely to find your particular worry in here, or something very close. - Scientific background: The book is very accessible, but any claims the authors make are based in valid scientific research. The authors provide proper names to some of the causes and symptoms of intrusive thoughts (and sometimes citations) so it's easy to do your own research and find bonafide scholarly papers back up their claims. This was especially helpful for a skeptic like me. - Very practical advice: The authors provide specific steps for dealing with intrusive thoughts as they happen, and for the long term. There is no wishy washy meditation, and no crap. These techniques led to immediate and dramatic results for me. Dr. Winston and Dr. Seif: If you ever happen to read this, I'd like to sincerely thank you for helping me get my life back. I used to have a terrible spell of anxiety for a day or two every week, and now I occasionally have a small setback once a month or so. I can actually wake up in the morning and expect to feel like myself throughout the day. Even if that's where my improvement ends, it was well worth the $10 price of admission. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Helpful and Well-Written *by K***T on February 13, 2018* I have been battling pretty awful OCD for roughly 2 years now. I have dealt with it in the past, but it got the worst I've ever known a year after having my daughter. This book is wonderful. It uses a CBT-based approach to overcome all types of thoughts. I got a lot of use out of it when I was dealing with intrusive thoughts, and I've also found it to be helpful with other issues I was dealing with. Basically, summer 2017, I began dealing with 24/7 dissociation. I had become obsessed with feeling dissociated, derealized and depersonalized. I didn't think this book was going to help with that because it was more a sensation than a "thought", but it does and will (since I realized that thoughts go along with the dissociation, "this feels awful. is everything around me real? why do I feel like I'm in a dream? etc). Unfortunately, I'm now dealing with health anxiety and am constantly obsessed over the fact that I am having or could have a heart attack or stroke at any moment or that I have some underlying illness (diabetes, heart disease...you name it). I've gone to urgent care multiple times and they assure me it's just anxiety, but I still get pretty scary and consistent symptoms (heart palpitations, dizziness that has made me practically house-bound unless someone else is here to take me out, chest pains, numbness in my limbs, feeling like my face is drooping when it obviously isn't, and shortness of breath). I know that it's all just anxiety, but the underlying thoughts when a symptom pops up "oh gosh, I'm dying, something is majorly wrong with me, I need to go to ER or urgent care RIGHT NOW, why do I keep getting dizzy if there's truly nothing wrong??" fuel the symptoms. Then, when I'm not having a symptom, the thoughts still persist, "I'm not feeling dizzy now...but....any moment now, it'll hit me again. It's nighttime...and this is when I typically get those awful and scary palpitations...let's see when they'll start this time...."I'm hoping that this book helps in the same way that it did with the dissociation and the intrusive thoughts. It's a shame that when you have OCD or anxiety, sometimes you think you're over one thing and something else pops up!! I also wanted to say in this review that Dr. Martin Seif has been nothing short of professional and helpful. When I was in the throws of my constant dissociation, I would email him directly to ask for help and how to implement the techniques in this book to my unique situation and he ALWAYS replied personally to me within hours or a few days. As a busy professional, he didn't have to do this, but he did - he doesn't even know me and always reached out to me. I have to thank him tremendously for all of the help he's been! I'm tempted to email him about my health anxiety issues, but I know deep down what his answer is going to be and what the answer truly is and that is "THIS BOOK WILL HELP, JUST KEEP READING IT AND PRACTICING THE TECHNIQUES!". Good luck to anyone out there struggling mentally. Mental issues can rob you of your happiness, willpower and joy of life. I would have never thought that the worst my anxiety and OCD would be would be right after having my first child...which should have been the happiest time of my life, not the most difficult mentally. I've come to realize that my issues are almost all focus or obsessive-related. The more I obsess and fight with the thoughts, sensations or whatever might be bothering me at the moment, the more it causes anxiety and panic. Unfortunately, simply knowing this doesn't help; it does require practice and persistence, but it's obtainable. Thank you again and I fully recommend this book!! ## Frequently Bought Together - Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: A CBT-Based Guide to Getting Over Frightening, Obsessive, or Disturbing Thoughts - The OCD Workbook: Your Guide to Breaking Free from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) - Needing to Know for Sure: A CBT-Based Guide to Overcoming Compulsive Checking and Reassurance Seeking --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.in/products/39342356-overcoming-unwanted-intrusive-thoughts-a-cbt-based-guide-to-getting](https://www.desertcart.in/products/39342356-overcoming-unwanted-intrusive-thoughts-a-cbt-based-guide-to-getting) --- *Product available on Desertcart India* *Store origin: IN* *Last updated: 2026-06-18*