What The Lindsay Clancy Case Gets Wrong About Intrusive Thoughts

Opublikowano: 2026-08-07

As the Lindsay Clancy case continues to receive national attention, references to “intrusive thoughts” have caused understandable fear and confusion for people living with harm OCD, postpartum OCD, and other mental health conditions. For someone already terrified by unwanted thoughts or images of harming a person they love, seeing those same words associated with an unthinkable tragedy can reinforce one of OCD’s most painful fears: What if having the thought means I could actually act on it? Traci Ibrahim has lived with harm OCD for more than 40 years, experienced postpartum OCD after the birth of her th...