- Username
- Taylen
- Date posted
- 2y ago
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.
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- Brendan =]Brendan =]
- Date posted
- 2y ago
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.
- Username
- TaylenTaylen
- Date posted
- 2y ago
@Brendan =] thank you 💜💜
- Username
- CYladyCYlady
- Date posted
- 2y ago
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.
- Username
- TaylenTaylen
- Date posted
- 2y ago
@CYlady thank you sm for the reassurance 💜
- Username
- CYladyCYlady
- Date posted
- 2y ago
@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.
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- NicaNica
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Don’t listen to anyone that isn’t a professional.
- Username
- wtfisthiswtfisthis
- Date posted
- 2y ago
@Nica this!!!!
- Username
- Kallie Kallie
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Don't listen to them, you got this 💪
- Username
- TaylenTaylen
- Date posted
- 2y ago
@Anonymous tysm, i know i can get through it. ♥️
- Username
- I wish this was easierI wish this ...
- Date posted
- 2y ago
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.
- Username
- set_me_free:)set_me_free:)
- Date posted
- 2y ago
:) who told you that?
- Username
- TaylenTaylen
- Date posted
- 2y ago
@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 ☹️
- Username
- set_me_free:)set_me_free:)
- Date posted
- 2y ago
@Taylen In that case every single person is either psychopath or *orny
- Username
- TaylenTaylen
- Date posted
- 2y ago
@set_me_free:) this makes me feel alot better ty ♥️
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