Anyone have intrusive thoughts?

[littlelady774]

I can just be sitting somewhere, then suddenly I start worrying/ obsessing over the details of a conversation I had over 2 years ago. I get extremely nervous about what might have been said because I can't remember, and have no way to go back in time and check it.
Then I have horrible intrusive thoughts or dreams about murdering my pets or those who I love. I wake up feeling so disturbed..
I would never never do that! :( But these thoughts come and I try to block them out.
Anyone else have intrusive thoughts? Please share

 

[Pentobartbital]

Before my crash, intrusive thoughts were the bane of my existence.

It felt like having some figurative mental gremlin push aside everything and upset me. Unspeakable sights and stimulus flew through my mind, sometimes making me rub my temples or make it seem as if I had constant headaches.

I have been told that it's not blocking these thoughts, but confronting and accepting them that works. Acknowledgement. You may be asking yourself, "why in the Hell should I acknowledge these types of things!?" yet in doing so we are given an opportunity to analyse and trace back to a root cause, if any. By applying fear and suppression, we are placing the equivalent of a bandaid over a gaping wound. If we give an appropriately timed pause or thoughtful reflection as to the how, where and why, we are building a channel, an outlet to relieve such annoyances and move on with our lives, if only until the next trouble appears.

 

[Roberto]

I constantly have these kind of thoughts. I recall conversations constantly. And try to answer what I really wanted to say because I was blocked mentally by emotions or I didn't find the right words. Sometimes I have disturbing imagination images in which I harm my cats. I never do that. But It is like a desire inside of me that I want to avoid. I try to say my self 'I love the cats', 'I need the cats' to try to avoid those thoughts.
I daydream constantly. Imagining conversations, how they were or how they should had been.
I leave alone in my flat and I don't speak to anyone. So I tend to think and live in the past. The problem is while I use to work. It happened the same and reduced my productivity.

 

[21Neberg]

They're bothering me too. I'd often cut myself to calm my head, but my therapist suggested I'd start excercising instead. It's worked a bit, maybe that's something you could try too? I often go for bike rides.

 

[littlelady774]

They're bothering me too. I'd often cut myself to calm my head, but my therapist suggested I'd start excercising instead. It's worked a bit, maybe that's something you could try too? I often go for bike rides.

Yes, pain is such a great way to distract yourself. Instead of cutting, I pull my hair out.
Your therapist is right. &The pain from exercising would definitely be more constructive

 

[WhiteRabbit]

All. The. Time.

 

[AhG]

Literally every hour of the day.

 

[Exile]

All the time. I want to divorce that part of my brain.

 

[Wolfjob_dayjob]

They're bothering me too. I'd often cut myself to calm my head, but my therapist suggested I'd start excercising instead. It's worked a bit, maybe that's something you could try too? I often go for bike rides.

21 I remember you said you don't eat a lot and exercise your body hard. Sorry to be annoying. Be safe... It's all crap I'm sorry everybody is hurting.

I haven't been having spikey thoughts lately but I've also been staring into space at my job...this isn't real, all fuzzy and very much inconsequential except when i worry at night. :(

 

[21Neberg]

21 I remember you said you don't eat a lot and exercise your body hard. Sorry to be annoying. Be safe... It's all crap I'm sorry everybody is hurting.

I haven't been having spikey thoughts lately but I've also been staring into space at my job...this isn't real, all fuzzy and very much inconsequential except when i worry at night. :(

Youre not annoying at all... I really appreciate you taking the time to tell me to be safe. I really do. I'm sorry you're hurting, I know the torture of worrying at night. I hope tonight will be better though, I hope you sleep well!

 

[Kyrok]

Unless I'm writing, absolutely. It is frequently the case I can't follow conversations, what I'm reading, or tv because of them... worries and/or thoughts about stupid mistakes I've made.