Dear lord. It’s terrible. Someone will do something like walk in front of me and suddenly in my head “I’ll KILL you” accompanied with scenes of extreme violence/torture. Anyone else experience unwanted aggressive urges/violent intrusive thoughts? I’d never act on them of course, I love people and have no desire to harm anyone which is why initially I found these things incredibly distressing. Before I went on medication I was so filled with rage/aggression that my only source of relief was to furiously exercise an hour every day. Maybe I’ll pick that up again, lord knows I need to after all the weight Risperdal put on me.
I didn’t start getting them until I was around 17.
Hey, Anna. I have intrusive thoughts that are violent as well (like stabbing someone you love). The only way that I found to combat these thoughts was questioning them. If I have the thought in which I stab someone I love, I keep thinking: “Why would I do that?”, “This knife is made for what?” and so on. I do it for thoughts that aren’t violent as well. For example, these days I had the thought that someone I love was pouring hot oil in another someone I love. I kept thinking: “Why would this person be so careless?” and so on.
It doesn’t eliminate these thoughts, but it’s the way that I found to deal with them.
I get them all the time. So do neurotypicals. Literally every person I have ever asked says they get them occasionally. It is a totally normal human experience. But sometimes we give the thoughts too much attention and worry what it says about us as people. That’s when it starts to be a problem.
I just try to let the thought float through my head without paying too much attention to it. I just say, “Huh. I had a thought that means nothing and that millions of people have every day.” Then I try to move on with my day. He key for me has been to stop trying to avoid having these thoughts. If I try not to think a thought, it causes me stress and makes it more likely that I will think something especially awful. But if I just accept it as a normal part of life, it happens and goes away and that’s the end of it.
Thank you😃 they have my husband on seraquel, zoloft, abd trazadone. He
has been in the hospital for 2 weeks and still having delusions. I hope it
helps him. Im sorry you have go thru this. Take care and thank you
I get intrusive thoughts like this as well. Sometimes it’s a thought like “I’m gonna kill you.” other times it’s flashing images of stabbing or cutting someone. Sometimes I even get those thoughts about hurting myself. It’s def scary.
Believe me, the thoughts can be even more distressing than voices for some people. At least with voices we can pretend they’re coming from something outside our own minds. Intrusive thoughts are quite obviously self-created. Not that it’s a contest. Both are unpleasant.
Hi Anna, I also think of severe intrusive thoughts some violent and I know I would never do any of them. Best I can do is that no one can read your mind therefore place less importance them. Even though I think people can read and see my intrusive thoughts. This makes it hard for me to cope. Hope that you will have peace. I take Zyprexia and Clozaril. And Clonazapam for anxiety.
Sometimes it takes two for this to happen. In other words, someone who is unusually fearful of an attack might trigger a violent thought in another person. What gets me is when I use the phrase “want to”, like I WANT to kill that angry baby. For some reason the word wanting has more power.
they definitely reduced them though