My entire life since I can remember I have had these horrible images pop up in my head, they were about my loved ones being harmed in the most brutal way possible. These images plague my mind and it ends up being very stressful. If you guys ever had these, what helped I would love to use new coping skills.
I had dreams about them being punched and kicked to the ground. It made me really sad. N just made me appreciate them better. Because I noticed just how much I loved them. I’m sorry I don’t have coping skills but I just wanted to say I can empathise with you on that.
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Yeah its a pain to see them suffering, I can agree it makes me treat them better and be more understanding. It’s okay I appreciate any type of feed back. Thank you butterflyy
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I guess refocusing and reminding yourself of what’s real is a good thing. As disturbing as these intrusive thoughts are, they come from a place in your mind that cares deeply about your loved ones. Center on the positive and on what’s true.
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I get intrusive thoughts about my nieces being hurt/killed in all kinds of horrible ways when I’m babysitting them, and how it would be my fault. Sometimes, the thoughts are even about me being the one to hurt them. I obviously never would, but the thoughts can be quite upsetting. It helps me to talk about them in therapy, and practice thought exercises.
Everyone gets these random, violent or disturbing thoughts at times. It’s just a glitch in he way the brain processes information and thoughts. Most people just ignore these thoughts, and write them off as random and meaningless. But a few people get stuck and worried. They fear that having these thoughts makes them bad people. And the more they worry, the more the thoughts repeat themselves.
If you remind yourself it’s just a meaningless brain glitch, and let the thought pass through your head without paying special attention to it, the thoughts will happen less.
I can go into more detail if you’d like, but I tend to ramble about this subject.
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Yeah I completely understand what you are saying, it helps to know Im not the only one struggling with these thoughts. I think I will start writing down these brain glitches, it will help a lot,. Thank you ninja star I really appreciate it.
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I like the way you put it.
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I strongly encourage talking to your therapist about ways to cope.
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Keep telling yourself it isn’t real and talk to your doctor. He helped me with this. I struggle with violent thoughts a lot.
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You and star are right, I think I will last time he told me to go to therapy so I think thats the safest way to go about it. Thank you all, you were all of great help.
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Medication is what helped me control those but therapy would help too.
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I currently take 80mg of prozac for ocd
I am on an antipsychotic and mood stabilizers. I do not have ocd. Maybe your doctor wants you to try therapy instead of risking putting you on other meds.
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I have ocd and suffer with horrific intrusive thinking.
All kinds of violent and terrible thoughts.
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Several weeks ago, Firemonkey posted a link to an interesting article on this topic. Here’s a link to the thread and to the article.
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That makes sense. Thank you oolaloola.
Wow real nice article. It makes me feel less bad about my intrusive thoughts. In conclusion I think I can agree these are just thoughts not my values and morals.
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Yeah they take a toll on ones mind.
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@Moonbeam’s article, I, unfortunately, had a pdoc who suggested that maybe I wanted to be violent. He scared me so I’m glad for the new information.
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The thing about sz, and why it’s such a horrible beguiling puzzle, is that (like most effective lies) it takes the truth and twists it into something else. So that you have a bit of truth, just enough to be confusing, mixed with lies and horrors. Sz makes it seem as though all the lies and horrors are true and we forget about anything good that may actually be at the core of the lies.
Being able to focus on that bit of truth and separate it from sz is tricky, but not impossible.
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