Often, I see many people here speak of psychological issues of one sort or the other. My personal struggle is with intense anxiety/panic and has been so for over ten years. Lately, I have been struggling with intrusive thoughts that are making me ever so slightly concerned - to say the least. I find myself imagining or thinking about my deepest fears and it sparks off the whole chain of anxiety attacks.

This past year has been a very rough ride for me, in terms of family and university and it has dredged up some traumas and reignited them.

So, while I have the appropriate medication to handle the situation when things get rough, I do find myself wondering as to the place of intrusive thoughts and associated anxiety in one's occult practices. How much does it muddy the vibration, so to say, and what can be done to nullify it.

Is this a psychic attack of some sort? What is this? Can it be handled in a spiritual/occult/magick way? Can other occultists with similar problems be willing to chat with me?