I’ve been getting really bad intrusive thoughts about killing people. These really distress me. Anyone else had this experience?
Yes definitely it’s awful. It comes from the man in my head not me. Quite distressing.
I have these thoughts. I think I am choosing to think them. It is a habit.
I have them but they’re reducing in intensity and frequency.
I have recovered from them. What helped was understanding the root of them, which is anxiety. When you feel unexplained anxiety your brain tries to attach it to something. Intrusive thoughts result when your brain tries to attach fear to certain thoughts, trains of thought or ideas. Once you understand this you can catch yourself early in the development of the intrusive thoughts and stop them from causing you distress. Just breath in deeply and recognize that it is just your brain playing tricks on you, the thoughts you are having cannot harm you or others in any way. Oh, and medication helps, especially at higher doses.
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I have intrusive offensive thoughts. They’re so offensive they might be considered violent. It makes me hate myself.
I used to have intrusive thoughts that were quite offensive. I think part of getting over them was realizing, these thoughts aren’t me, that’s not really my thought. I wish I could say some med change helped me but it doesn’t seem like that was the case.
25 years ago I did. It frightened me but I kept control and a week later they stopped.
i used to have violent thoughts of wanting to self harm and i thought i might have borderline pd… or maybe thats a part of schizophrenia… but it went away and i rrarely have them anymore… i think it’s caused by stress and helplessness…
Yes i get them and i don’t know why although @eduvigis made a really good point about anxiety.
When I get them, I visualise a black and yellow roadblock with a stop sign in the middle saying “thought blocked” and I just focus on that until the violent and distressing image / thought disappears.
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