I can’t move…
These are intrusive thoughts.
I can’t move anyhow because of my disability…
I get thoughts all the time that I should move abroad.
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I am so sorry @Chess24
You need to wait this out… until the meds help you more because they will.
I have intrusive thoughts too. Have you done any CBT?
@mermaid1 I am already helped by olanzapine, off olanzapine the situation was much worse.
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May I ask you what your instructive thoughts is?
I also get strong urges, though not intrusive thoughts, to move abroad. But I’m in the same boat, can’t because of disability.
Is it ur dream to move abroad? Where do these thoughts come from?
I get strong intrusive thoughts as well.
Hang in there Erez.
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I get thoughts about moving abroad too. But not moving permanently. Just on a visitors visa. I want to go to a Spanish Immersion program in Panama City, Panama. I want to do this a year from now, once I am proven stable on my new medication regimen.
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Are those hugs for me? And why? Not that I’m turning them down.
I would be living with a Panamanian host family. I chose that instead of a hotel. I would get to practice more of my Spanish that way.
It’s a common feeling, even for normals to want to move away. It is as if the idea that moving away means moving away from all our problems so that one can start again problem free. It is however only a romantic idealisation as we often forget that the individual carries themselves and all that they are with them. One cannot escape oneself, even if we transfer to an ideal geographical position, but we think we can deluding ourselves.
Realising that one cannot run away from our problems is part of the insight of becoming whole. Slowly accepting this, although difficult and uncomfortable we can learn to adjust to ourselves and our lives.