reply pls, kinda panicking.
last night someone told me intrusive thoughts were something you want to do, i cant stop overthinking about it now and my anxiety is through the roof i just wanna escape my own body.
Intrusive thoughts are often irrational and things you don’t want to do but fear you will. People with POCD, for example, don’t actually want intimate contact with a minor, they just fear they do. OCD is full of people fearing they need to or want to do things that don’t align with their values. If I’m on a train platform and the train is approaching, I may get the intrusive thought to push the person in front of me onto the tracks. Do I want to harm them? Do I wish them harm? Absolutely not. Thoughts are just thoughts. Don’t absorb what he said as fact.
@Brendan =] thank you 💜💜
Whoever told you that is dumb, because intrusive thoughts are just thoughts about the most random thing that could happen, often negative things, but they are NOT indicative of what YOU'RE thinking at all. When I'm at the store, I, once or twice, had an instrusive thought about how easily I could slip a note saying that I have a concealed weapon and that they should give me all the money in the register now to the cashier, but obviously I won't do that because of multiple reasons, like the fact that it's not in my nature to do something so awful, it's morally wrong, and I don't want to get arrested. Instrusive thoughts mean absolutely nothing.
@CYlady thank you sm for the reassurance 💜
@Taylen Np, sorry if I came off aggressive to your relative, but I just irks me how people may say the darndest things if they're clueless about what you're going through.
Don’t listen to anyone that isn’t a professional.
@Nica this!!!!
Don't listen to them, you got this 💪
@Anonymous tysm, i know i can get through it. ♥️
I have an ongoing talk with a friend who also has the understanding "I am not my thoughts" and it brings up what "you" are. You aren't your thoughts but you can be your values, your joy, the parts of you that have grown. You are NOT your thoughts, you are SO MUCH more.
:) who told you that?
@set_me_free:) my cousins friend, we were talking about how we have had intrusive thoughts and he was saying he wanted to do them and i said “wait you want to do them?” then he said “yeah thats what intrusive thoughts are” and im overthinking sm i dont know what to do ☹️
@Taylen In that case every single person is either psychopath or *orny
@set_me_free:) this makes me feel alot better ty ♥️
i wanna fucking scream and cry over my intrusive thoughts. it's incredibly disturbing and won't stop. i can't stop it. i can't not perform a compulsion(every though it only makes them worse, and i can't ignore it. i hate this. i hate myself. i just want to go to sleep without thinking about this please. i feel so sick and ashamed of myself. i'm genuinely so scared i'm gonna hurt someone. idk what to do anymore. i just want help.
Just got an intrusive thought and I’m having a panic attack as I write this. Someone called me weird today, somebody said I can’t listen at all, then someone else said something hurtful. Been feeling down today and then as I was eating I got an intrusive thought that said I am going depressed again. I’ve been going crazy. Fidgeting, bouncing my leg, sped up breathing… And I feel light headed and I just need somebody to tell me everything is okay. I can’t tell my mother because I told her I think I have OCD and she simply brushed it off and she will get frustrated with me if I tell her I am having a panic attack…
about a month ago i experienced an intrusive thoight about becoming a murderer and it completely shocked me i panicked and began searching things up and came across intrusive thoughts and ever since discovering them i have them all the time and they are on my mind 24/7 i’m paranoid that i’m going to become a murderer and revently i’ve been afriad that it’s not ocd and it’s just who i am and what i have become and i’m a physco i live with a constant guilt tjay i am looking at people the wrong way and my mind is convincing me i’m evil but i would never hurt anyone but even typing this my mind is telling me i’m lying i have such a headache, i have had anxiety issues before
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