How do you deal with your intrusive thoughts? Mine make me panic and anxiety stricken. Especially hate my visual intrusive images. How do
I have peace with my thoughts. Can not stand to be like this any longer. Miss my old self, there was
a time when i didn’t think like this.
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@Supermanslice just posted a similar thread. I’ve developed a new way for me to tackle the problem:
Good luck and I hope you feel better soon.
I hate my intrusive thoughts as well. They tell me to do violent sexual things to children or they try and make me turn gay or engage in incest. All of those things are extremely out of character for me but the intrusive thoughts still order me to do them and at a certain point it definitely makes me question what i stand for as a person and how well developed my sense of morality is. Its nice to know someone else is also struggling with intrusive thoughts even though it might not be the exact same situation.
Hi eduvigis,
Sorry u are going through this. Hope u can find peace of mind, my doctor says we are not our thoughts. Try to keep your mind occupied by other things. Prove to yourself you are not these things. Intrusive thoughts are also a form of OCD and your doctor should help you with this disorder.
In insanity we have very strong convictions. Take these convictions as a metaphoric court. You are getting accused of this thinking by someone in authority, but you know that you don’t believe in this or want or have done it. so you ask to call witnesses to account for these accusations, and the witnesses didn’t see anything but you continue to get convicted. May there be no witnesses then there is no convictions.
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Same thing here edu … exactly!!
I figure FxxK em
Me too.
My intrusive thoughts are heard by everyone. Its really embarrassing.
If people heard my thoughts…you know I could probably live with that considering what I feel I go through. My thoughts might sound like me trying to remember something, or me reading a label or a book. I could live with that. What I live with unfortunately you’de have to imagine the feeling that what people are hearing is the voice of some totally seperate entity inside that hurls racial slurs and sexual harasment at people wherever I go. The feeling as though my thoughts were heard, yeah I could live with that, this, I live…but I can’t live WITH this.
I go through the same thing. Makes it hard to be around my family without becoming anxious. I’ve been spending my days at the park to avoid seeing anyone. I hate that i do that because i love my family.
I used to have horrible intrusive thoughts about all kinds of things. Embarrassing sexual things and horrible things that were going to happen to me as I was physically and emotionally sacrificed. Meds have helped me tremendously. I used to be consumed with paranoia and intrusive thoughts. ‘They’ were talking to me in my head all the time. I am blessed to be in quasi remission (I still have my delusion that I am part of a brain study) even though I take the same dose of meds. I hope and pray that this dose continues to work for me. It’s been a few months since I’ve had them talking to me in my head or intrusive thoughts. Let’s hope it stays that way. I hate meds but I need them.
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My intrusive thoughts make people mad at me. They want to murder me because of my thoughts. I get harassed and name called because of my thoughts. Would give anything to have my old brain.
While I don’t have any advice for dealing with them, I’ve been having them for the past few days. It also sucks because I’ve legitimately been feeling happy, but the intrusive thoughts just come along and ruin it. Yet at the same time they’re making me wonder if I really am feeling good, since they’re mostly centered around self-harm and suicide.
When I was on zyprexa I had really bad intrusive thoughts at the end of the day when the drug was getting out of my system. When I switched over to seroquel xr I had much less negative symptoms. Maybe talk to your psychiatrist about switching meds?
I am on zyprexa. My psychiatrist gave me abilify but he said it was okay to switch them suddenly. So i’ve been too scared to try it.
I get really intense intrusive thoughts but mainly intrusive images, sometimes they are really scary and gruesome.
Thankfully they usually don’t last that long, sometimes I have to take some Klonopin to try to get rid of them.
I also get Rapid Thoughts probably from the Hypomanias I’ve been experiencing.
The more you ignore the thoughts the better you will feel and the ability to squelch them altogether is possible, but it takes patience and work.
Did you go on the abilify and it helped with your intrusive thoughts?