I’m getting the sexual intrusive thoughts for the first time in months. I was watching a documentary on mental illness very relaxed and, trigger warning, I was thinking about things to do explicit gay sex with one of the male main characters who I had grown fond of, some of it involved playing with or consuming human waste. The thoughts only mildly distressed me at the time, I just knew they didn’t belong in my thought process. It was like…they just came, you know? The thoughts of doing stuff with feces keep coming back and I don’t know what to do. What should I do?
I hate intrusive thoughts they’re the worst. Just stop thinking people can read your mind and they should go away. Just to clarify, no one can read your mind. I’m saying that for myself as well.
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It’s worse when the thoughts play into your emotions. Like violence when you’re feeling stressed or erotomania when you’re feeling a little tender.
I don’t think I have that. When I think people are reading my mind the intrusive thoughts will come. Then I’ll try to block them and more will come.
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No, I think ppl are reding my mind too, but it’s more realistic if that makes sense. Like people are watching me and judging how I take my every breath, every twitch someone is judging me. And I get the feeling I can read their thoughts too.
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I know what you mean, I try not to think about people because I get paranoid that somehow they’ll know I’m thinking about them, and that sets off a whole bunch of intrusive thoughts.
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I tend to focus on one or two people in the room, and I overthink like crazy too. So I wonder if ppl are making fun of me with their gestures or actions.
I tend to think I know more about ppl than I actually do. And I always think Im the butt of some joke between everyone else.
■■■■ I need to be hospitalized don’t I?
I use to think that when I was younger. I’m 27 now and don’t have that type of anxiety anymore. Maybe it would be best if you asked your doctor for an anxiety med.
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I’m 21 and I take ativan and luvox, abilify gives me generalized anxiety so I’m trying to offset it with those two and seroquel prn. Maybe as I grow older the explicit intrusive thoughts will fade. They’re better than they were a year ago. Can you imagine I used to think about abusing little boys on my brothers soccer team sexually?
That’s not cool man. Why do I feel like I’m being interrogated by you? Maybe cause I’m crazy?
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As far as anxiety meds. The only thing that calms me down when I’m psychotic is ativan, it’s like a miracle. The problem is doctors won’t write the script. When I’m not psychotic ativan does nothing for me.
What symptoms do you have other than thought broadcasting or whatever it’s called?
paranoia… I’m one of the lucky ones I don’t see or hear things.
My doc wrote the script with no hesitation. He trusts me because I have good insight and don’t seem likely to abuse anything.
They really don’t mean anything about you, other than it’s something you find unsettling and difficult to ignore.
It helps me to think of part of my brain as a toddler doing whatever it can to get my conscious attention. When I get distressing intrusive thoughts (and mine are pretty bizarre and distasteful to me), I try not to push them away. Just think, as if I’m dealing with an obnoxious child trying to rile me, “That’s interesting, thanks for sharing.” And then move on with your life. If you can reduce your emotional reaction to them, they’ll fade away.
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Paranoia is a beast my god, just diagnosed I had it bad too, and still live with it.
Because I have poverty of thought sometimes those intrusive thoughts are the only thoughts I have, making it nearly impossible to ignore them. Also they’re connected to my emotions so they feel personal and real, some of them are quite complicated or detailed.
When I’m not psychotic I’m the most laid back and relaxed guy there is. The problem is when I’m psychotic I think people are going to kill me.
Not to start a ■■■■ show. The thoughts that enter my head are crapping on the ones who are reading my mind. I usually think it’s billionaires reading my mind. So, once I think about crapping on them. I think they are going to kill me.
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Talk to your pdoc/therapist if you think you need to be hospitalized. If it is only mildly distressing you maybe you just need some time, but it’s good to talk to someone about it.
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