I’m not very sure, it’s been one heck of a week for me dealing with my intrusive thoughts and I’m just wondering does anyone else’s intrusive thoughts start off with the normal bad thoughts and then it merges into like the after math of what peoples reactions would be like and how your family would react? It happens to me and leaves me a little on edge and more panicky.
This happens to me! I have lots of thoughts about losing my husband and kids in tragic ways and it goes into funeral planning, my funeral speech, what people will say to me, how I would let others know..etc. it's extremely distressing and I think I would describe the feeling as grief and like I'm literally mourning my alive family already. It gives me so much anxiety, and it happens so fast. You are not alone ♡
Oh thank goodness! I thought I was going crazy for a bit because it’s something so new
I'm sorry you also deal with this!
Yes this happens to me! For example, years ago I experienced a lot of OCD around randomly waking up and transitioning to a diff gender, and although I am not transgender and obviously had no desire to transition, I found myself thinking about what people would think if I did do that or how my family would react. It’s common, you are not alone in this. These thoughts just feel so real that sometimes you start to go along with them
Does anyone like get extra anxious about an intrusive thought because you think to yourself “nobody else has probably had this thought.” “I must be crazy.” Idk those thoughts always seem to make my anxiety worse. I also have a fear of losing touch of reality and believing in crazy thoughts, if that makes sense? TMI but I also notice that my OCD is worse when I’m on my period. Can anyone else relate?
So who here has intrusive thoughts about going insane or ending up in a mental hospital or just general fear of having anxiety and then get anxiety? Or fear of going out to events or places with family or friends and having intense anxiety? I don't see many people saying they have this. Intrigued to know.
So I’m going to college soon and every time I think about it, I feel like the odd one out because of my intrusive thoughts. Like I literally feel like an “intruder” going to school because of how my thoughts make me feel. This is also every time I talk to my friends, my brain is like “your friends are talking to a future criminal”. I just feel like I don’t deserve to be there and have good memories and like my thoughts are inevitable. I feel like a completely different person from who I was before June. Of course I have had these thoughts throughout my life, but nothing that stuck longer than a week or two. It’s so weird how one day your perfectly happy and the other you feel like a completely different person. Furthermore, while these thoughts don’t make me happy and provide anxiety, those feelings feel so forced sometimes. Also I’m sure a lot of us do this, but when I think of the thought and want to feel disgust (as one does), it feels like I’m forcing that feeling. During the beginning of June I was nauseated by these thoughts and crying most days, now they just feel annoying more than anything because there’s nothing I can really do to provide relief. I constantly am questioning whether this is me or not and at this point I don’t even know. I feel like the thoughts have gradually went from making me want to vomit to questioning whether I would actually do it. Anyone else?
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