I get what you are talking about with the thoughts and I do that as well, but what I meant by intrusive thoughts are things like...ug, I am embarrassed to even try to give an example, so I will tell you one of the more benign types: say I'm driving down the road and there is person walking along the side (we really don't have sidewalks here), I imagine myself running over them, then stopping and them being hurt and bleeding, maybe a smashed head...I go through the whole thing, I think of an ambulance, the cops, etc...etc...its really very dreadful, because I obviously don't want to kill someone. But I think of things like that dozens, if not hundreds, of times in a day. Some days are better, some days are worse. Its is invariably something bad that I imagine doing and they disturb me and cause me anxiety. They also can cause me to become very paranoid (say I have a sudden idea that someone's outside my window with an ax waiting to chop my son up when he falls asleep), and then delusional. Because I will become convinced this thing is going to happen, regardless of how logically I can look at the situation, I am plagued with these thoughts or ideas. That's what I mean by intrusive.