A fun (?) intrusive thought exercise: Has anyone else practiced singing their intrusive thoughts to themselves? Even dancing along to them? I know it sounds silly, but when I start signing to myself, “I’m in deniaaaallll yeah yeah cause I’m really a boy, not a girl, and my life’s all faaaaaaake” it helps make everything just sound so ridiculous and easier to digest. It certainly brings down the anxiety. If you try it, let me know how it goes!

In their essence, they are just ideas that pass through our head because we have functioning cognitive abilities and have learned what they are. Our ability to know and think about these things comes with the fact that we are human beings, and that isn’t bad. If they were ‘bad’ that would mean having the thoughts was ‘bad’ when that isn’t the case! People without obsessive tendencies know that they aren’t bad for thinking about ‘bad’ things, or having thoughts with ‘bad’ ideas in them. But the thought itself isn’t ‘bad’- it isn’t colored red for bad and green for good. It’s just a little orb with an idea inside of it that we should just let pass. It’s sticky, so if we try touching it and messing with it and seeing if it means something, it’s gonna stick and try to tell us that it does mean something about us. There doesn’t need to be any sort of alarm when they happen because it’s just a cloud passing by. It might block the sun for a second and try to freak us out, but it always passes straight through without having any defining affect on our realities. We just need to stop punishing ourselves for having vivid imaginations!!?

This is amazing ?

I think I might already do this in my life, whenever something starts going terribly wrong I just sing about how much I love it LOL?. So for example, I needed a new car battery which was super expensive and then I got a flat tire in the same day but I just started singing “I just got a flare tireee and I am sooo excitedddd hehe, I love that for myself because I loveeeee flat tires” and then that makes me laugh and then the bad moment kinda gets better??❤️

I will try it but Idk, my songs can get me worse. I like nobooody And nobooody likes me I will die I will set myself freeee??? Well if you being sarcastic in singing it could help a little?

Every time I think of sarcasm singing I picture homer from the simpsons when he sing in sarcastic way that could help more?

I agree

Love this, I’m gonna try it???❤️

I think it could help if you were smiling while singing your intrusive thoughts!:) Smiling says to to the brain that you are experiencing something ‘joyful’ so maybe we could just fake it until we make it haha! Intrusive thoughts aren’t bad and they aren’t good- they just exist so we need to tell our brains that they can have a home in our head without it meaning anything dangerous or deep:)

I think intrusive thought are bad but could you tell me why it isn't?