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Intrusive thoughts
Can an intrusive thought not make sense but you still distress and have so much anxiety
Can an intrusive thought not make sense but you still distress and have so much anxiety
Absolutely. I’ll have a thought about how brains work and that will send a wave of anxiety over me. No idea why! Random thoughts about different things do that to me.
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? 😅
This is hard to admit, but I’ve been struggling with intrusive thoughts where the central theme is racism. I don’t use racial slurs but my brain worries that I have said something that hurts or offends someone and now I find myself analyzing every social interaction.
Any one else deal with this? Like from the moment they wake up to the second they fall asleep, the intrusive thoughts are there?
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