Sometimes not paying attention to them makes them better, but I'm getting so exhausted with my overthinking and intrusive thoughts. mentally I'm drained, physically I'm drained, I know that they are just intrusive thoughts and that I'm over-thinking but it still upsets me and I'm always so tired.
Oops I meant a wood script. You write out your fear from your intrusive thought - just what you are afraid will happen - without any solutions - and then you read it take a break, then read it again. Anxiety goes up at first but then it goes down the more you go towards it by reading it.
@Erin P i will try that thank you so much
The suggestion of creating a script is an effective way to acknowledge the fear and accepting the intrusive thought can be present, sit with the discomfort, and also incorporating the response prevention of resisting the overthinking and other compulsions. Accepting that the intrusive thought can be present without having any meaning about who you are as a person.
Have you tried a sorry script where you go towards the fear
@Erin P i havent heard of that before
At times, my intrusive thoughts get so intense that all I can do is lay frozen in my bed and hope I fall asleep, and usually I do even if I'm not tired. My brain just wears me out and I wanna escape through sleep. (Sadly it doesn't work all the time)
I struggle so bad with intrusive thoughts. They can be so bad that I'll cry because I KNOW that's not how I feel or want to do. (Too embarrassed to say what they're about) I'll constantly try to figure out why I have them, and constantly figure out what they mean, causing me to constantly circle around and around. I had to get on anxeity meds, which helped a little but the thoughts still happen. How do you help yourself with this? How do you know that you're just not some physcopath? 😅
How do I stop letting my intrusive thoughts control me? Ive been having them for almost a year, once I graduated, become more isolated and lost more friends they've become worse. I feel like when I had friends and was still going to school they weren't as bad probably because I was living more so I didn't take them as seriously. But now that Im home all day and alone they've gotten worse and it feels like they're starting to control my life. Theres times where Im on social media and eventually I forget about them but then when I realize I forgot about them they come back. Sometimes the thought just lingers it doesn't even just pop in my head and go away. I can't tell anyone in my family because they'd judge me for the thoughts and they don't really believe in mental illnesses. I also sometimes think of what other people may think of me if they knew the thoughts I had and it makes it worse. How do I stop letting these thoughts control/trigger me and stop reacting or feeling some type of way about them.
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