Hard for me to rest because of my intrusive thoughts. I don’t like having bad thoughts about others. It makes me very anxious. Sometimes they are about celebrities and their relatives/children. I’m thinking that they would kill me if they new the content of my intrusive thoughts. But i am not my intrusive thoughts. I’m afraid of becoming a bad person. Miss the old me 5 years ago. Did not have any intrusive thoughts then. How do i get rid of these intrusive, bad, perverted thoughts.
I know it’s not the best advice, but have you ever just ignored them? When I get intrusive thoughts I just try and remind myself that they’re not real…to me they kind of are, but in reality I can’t tell what a person is thinking, especially a random person I don’t know, truthfully I can’t tell what people close to me are thinking either…it’s just not possible. Sometimes the thoughts can come on too strong where I just find ways to block them, like put on music to distract myself, or flick on the TV and let it lull me to sleep. It’s hard but with me the more I ignore the voices the quieter they get.
dear sohare1981,
I try to ignore my intrusive thoughts but it does not work. I feel so sick inside when i have them i feeI like a pervert. Are we what we think? Kind of. But 5 years ago i did not have any intrusive thoughts i was a better acting and thinking person.
Suffered from many anxiety/panic thoughts. Don’t know how to cope. Just want to be able to sleep at night.
Even if they can see it no one cares. Your getting freaked out by the potentials of your mind. You have to let go and forget about these possibilities.
Keep it to words. Then quit saying the words.
Feel for the impulses and learn to avoid them.
Seek the blank state and become your breath.
That’s what worked for me. Good luck see121. You can do it.
Would keeping a journal help? You could write out your thoughts and review them and see, at a different time, what fits reality and what doesn’t. This might help be you learn where these thoughts are really coming from. I know we don’t want to believe these thoughts are ours, but it is my belief they stem from somewhere inside of us so unconsciously we may be thinking what we’re viewing as intrusive thoughts. Sometimes when mine get to picking on me I ask them to tell me something I don’t already know and what I can do to make them happy and they usually shut up for a while, or will through back negative things to me to get me worked up. The idea is to remember these are just thoughts and truthfully thoughts cannot hurt you, or those around you…only you can do that through your actions.
So learning what starts these thoughts might help in figuring out how to get rid of them…like learning anything that may trigger the thoughts…Like I tend to get really negative about myself if I watch Dr. Phil, because he’s a big negative voice in my head so I just cut back watching him and the thoughts go away for a while. I haven’t figured out how to get rid of them completely but I have my ways of ignoring them like keeping my mind busy, writing things down, listening to music so I can’t hear them…
Are you on any medications? Maybe you need something that can help knock you out night. Almost all my drugs cause me to be drowsy which is why we’ve (my doctor & I) switched from taking them in the morning to taking them at bed time…to help me sleep.
You might want to read:
http://www.drmartinseif.com/resources/intrusive-thoughts.html
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