#actual intrusive thoughts

[l0vesickfool]

"I let my intrusive thoughts win"

HA HA OH DID YOU?

So you killed your pets? Had s e x with a family member? Screamed a slur in public transport? Scooped out your eye?

No? then S T F U PLEASE!

[tortuah]

Intrusive thoughts fucking suck I'm probably gonna have to spend today avoiding my family again

[wyrm-with-a-why]

A comic about grudges, intrusive thoughts and hatred from hurt

[thecharliechip]

Can we please destigmatize intrusive thoughts?

Intrusive thoughts are not random impulses you get, such as randomly yelling or touching something random, random things you want to do without thinking about the long-term consequences, or actions that you can resist.

Intrusive thoughts are disturbing thoughts that you do not want; they're often thoughts about hurting people or other disturbing subjects. Often, they can be violent, sexual, and possibly illegal. They may not even be thoughts about actions, just a disturbing piece of information. They are called intrusive because they intrude on your regular thought process. You don't want them there but you can't get rid of them.

[slugass]

oh that’s my brain saying horrible bigoted shit again

i did not ask for this

[wolfinlavender]

I wish more people were more educated about OCD. I don't even tell most of my friends I have it, because so many people think it means I like things neat, and how am I meant to tell them

"no, it actually means that my brain convinces me that if I don't place my cup down Just Right, my whole family will die"

or "no, it actually means that when I'm doing the washing up, I look down at the knife I'm cleaning and can't stop imagining pushing it straight into my chest".

People don't really want to talk to you after that, I find, and it's because people have no fucking idea that that is what OCD can actually be, not just being "a little annoyed because things aren't tidy".

[aoeability]

The joke is that I'm afraid of myself

[meimeikyu]

does anyone else get intrusive thoughts like in the form of daydreams? like sometimes ill get the kind most people talk about being like thoughts but a lot of the time what ends up happening is ill get vivid daydreams about doing horrid things and i hate it. im wondering if it manifests like that for anyone else

[ingyd-a-r]

tw intrusive thoughts about animal harm

me when i try to convince myself that my intrusive thoughts are temporary but i remember the reoccuring intrusive thought i had of crushing my dogs skull with my hands at 8 years old that got so bad i was terrified to even be near my sweet dog for months on end

[beenovel]

Ok I’m having a slight mental breakdown about the sun the last couple days (idk what’s happening but every time the sun touches me I get these horrible intrusive thoughts like “I’m not wearing sunscreen, my skin is going to peel off my body, I’m going to get melanoma and die of sun cancer”) so to reassure myself and spread awareness here are the signs of melanoma and when to get it checked by a doctor:

[webdoiis]

Paralyzing intrusive thoughts

Like bro let me do my dishes

[wyrmvents]

I hope he kills himself.

[fishwanderingforest]

Throwback to that one time where I opened up to a friend about possibly having (actual) OCD and intrusive thoughts and that my thoughts made me do certain actions because if I don't do this very specific action a specific amount of times my entire family will die a cruel death

And the girl I opened up to legitimately went like

"if they actually die then that was God's will and it's his plan"

Like what the actual fuck? It's so so funny to me now but back then I was younger and that sentence fuvking haunted me

Maybe that's why I haven't told anyone about this struggle I have had for YEARS cuz this was the first reaction I got

(I used to think this lil thing I have here will go away , but like I was like 14/15 back then and now I'm 18 so I kinda think it's staying

And I'm not tryna self diagnose but I've really looked into it and I need to give it a name or else I'll go insane)

[wyrm-with-a-why]

When the. Memory return so do the instrusive violent thoughts so you gotta start playing as much video game music as possible to shut it out

[accessibleaesthetics]

I don’t know who needs to hear this today, but intrusive thoughts are basically your brain’s (sometimes very upsetting) way of saying “If there were two guys on the moon and one of them killed the other with a rock would that be fucked up or what?”

I’ve personally found that adding the “would that be fucked or what?” part in myself really helps put the more disturbing thoughts we sometimes get into perspective. Helps me say “yeah thar sure would be fucked up” and move on with my day.

It’s not a secret desire, it’s not something that only occurs to you because you’re a bad person. It’s just your brain deciding to process the fact that it knows an uncomfortable thing exists in the world by feeding it to you in an absurd “what if” with you as the main character.

[slugass]

i saw it and my brain won’t shut up about that particular fucking shit right now i saw bigoted bullshit now it won’t shut up about bigoted shit for a while godddddddddd “make THIS shitty joke agree with THIS hateful bullshit” over and over