Do you think "intrusive thoughts" (aka "disturbing thoughts") can contribute to making you stronger?
Do you think "intrusive thoughts" (aka "disturbing thoughts") can contribute to making you stronger?First of all, poor definition of intrusive thoughts. They are not just “disturbing thoughts,” since all people can have disturbing thoughts. Rather, they are brought on through mental illness and can occur without warning. They often have a serious impact on the individual experiencing them, preventing them from going about their daily lives as easily.Secondly, the thoughts themselves do not make you stronger. Again, they cause great weakness and often will temporarily worsen the symptoms of mental illness, sometimes even driving one to self harm or suicide.What does make you stronger is living and carrying on despite the thoughts. Strength is not about having the thoughts, but properly dealing with them, and, in the long term, moving on to a healthier mental state.
Why Do I always get disturbing intrusive thoughts while im masturbating?
Oh god i know exactly what you mean its such a turn off it'll be like a hot girl then boom your sister pops into your head or something. I think watching porn will help this out because you have some visual aid instead of letting your mind wander.
Gruesome, disturbing, intrusive thoughts?
About a year ago I started having these really gory intrusive thoughts. It wasn't like I wanted to hurt myself or anyone around me, but I'd imagine doing something day to day and it would end horribly. I gave myself an anxiety attack in the car on my way to work thinking about if i got into an accident with my mom driving and looking over at her mutilated body. The thoughts are very detailed and disturbing and only happen every once in awhile. I hadn't had one for a long time until today. My cat was hit by a car and my friend was the one that found him, she said he died immediately and put him in a box. I keep thinking about his body with a splattered skull or a burst rib cage and it's awful because I loved him so much, I'm mourning the fact that he's gone, and I have these awful thoughts about his mutilated body. Is there a reason for these thoughts? Are they normal? When they happen my anxiety is terrible, I cry and have a knot in my stomach and make myself nauseous. There have been many but these are just a couple examples. I suffer from generalized anxiety disorder and depression and have been medicated for many years, but these intrusive thoughts started out of nowhere a year ago.
Are disturbing and intrusive thoughts normal?
I think it's normal.Or at least definitely not abnormal.I'm pretty sure most people with OCD do, at some point in their life, have, at the very least, one bad phase where they have really terrifying intrusive thoughts. There might be people who don't, but I've never heard of them.For me, I don't have detailed-to-the-point-of-being-scared intrusive thoughts unless I'm stressed. Normally the thoughts just come, disturb me a bit, and leave.When I’m stressed though, they can be really, really terrifying.
IS IT OK TO HAVE DISTURBING THOUGHTS?
Does everyone have disturbing thoughts sometimes, or is it really just a sign of a mental disorder? Do disturbing thoughts make me a bad person? Like for example.. sometimes in my mind I can see me squeezing my cat to death, I dont know why, the image is just there. I love him more than anything and I would never do anything to hurt him. When i get these thoughts I usually stay away from the cat and try to focus on something else. I have other disturbing thoughts as well but that was just one example. Sometimes I worry that I am an evil person, because I have sick thoughts. Is this normal??
How to get rid of intrusive thoughts?
Yep, Im a counsellor and I've suffered these bastards for some periods of my life, after the birth of my children, my fathers death etc. A couple of things that I have found helped: 1 is to not try and challenge them, to say to yourself this is just a thought no matter how disturbed sick or depraved they try and become -its just a thought, try and visualise them simply passing by like leaves on a river, there it is there it goes mental junk, oh its back again let go again. I tried cognitive behavioural approaches, solution focused approaches, challenging the thought. All of these seemed to give the thought power and influence that it didn't deserve, by simply allowing the thought to go by, just notice it, if you get caught in it don't beat yourself up, just notice, relax let go laugh at how ridiculos they are. Eventually they pass but will usually flare up either when you are stressed and forgetting to look after yourself or when there is a significant event. They are essentially anxiety based and become circular, dont think it, I thought it, I hate it, I shouldnt be thinking it, what does this mean about me, I musn't think it, I thought it etc. Just nonsense. A strategy that I also found works is to take the thought to its absolute extreme, totally the worst you can think of spend time with it and then next time it comes up you can internally say - what you gonna do? This desensitizes you to the thought and can put you in some control. Hope this helps, best of luck :)
How do I get rid of intrusive thoughts?
I have OCD (or, rather, I now have obsessive-compulsive tendencies; after treatment it is no longer a disorder for me), and I had intrusive thoughts that were disturbing and graphic (deliberately crashing into oncoming traffic, stabbing people if I picked up a pair of scissors, etc). I spent five months seeing a cognitive-behavioral therapist, and I'm no longer troubled by intrusive thoughts. In therapy OCD patients learn both that everyone has random disturbing thoughts at some point (doesn't mean a person will ever act on them!) and the techniques that can be used to break the obsession on the intrusive thoughts. On the first day I saw my therapist, he gave me a long list (multiple pages) of answers from an anonymous survey asking people about their intrusive thoughts. These were people without OCD who were just found in the general population. Their thoughts were actually much more graphic, aggressive, and disturbing than mine had been (sex with family members, putting their dog in the oven and roasting it, pulling out their eyeballs), and it made me feel much better to see that intrusive thoughts do indeed happen to everyone. The difference is that for people without OCD, the thoughts don't cause them any anxiety. After treatment, my reaction became that of a "normal" person. When such thoughts come to my mind now, which they do far less frequently, they pass through without me giving them any attention and without increasing my overall anxiety level.In my experience and that of other OCD sufferers I've read about, the single best thing a person who is suffering from intrusive thoughts can do is see a therapist who has experience treating people with anxiety disorders. Cognitive-behavioral therapy has a good success rate with OCD patients, and if the disorder is particularly severe, various antidepressants can be used. There is help out there, and it's entirely possible to be a person with OCD (even severe forms) and after treatment go on to lead a perfectly normal life. I highly recommend finding a cognitive-behavioral therapist in your area if you're having this problem.
Does depression trigger disturbing intrusive thoughts?
Personally, I can’t recall that experience. But I do, periodically, get disturbing intrusive thoughts due to having OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder).
Why do I have dark/disturbing thoughts?
Perhaps, simply, because everything has a dark and disturbing side.I can think of a couple of things to contemplate.Frequency of the appearance of ddt.Is it that they are constantly coming into your mind, new events, new conversations, new input is creating these ddt?Time it takes to let go of ddtIs it that when a ddt occurs, you cannot let it go, and it continually circles around like an unwelcome guest.I can offer my own view on the worldWe have two things inside us. Some see it as good and evil, others see it as ego and self. Basically there is a force of creation and a force of destruction.Everyday people struggle with such duality. If you try to do the thing that in your heart of hearts you think is the best thing to do, then a part of you will shout and scream and pull you down. Or they may softly whisper and tell you you don’t have to do that.Perhaps understanding that it is natural to have opposing forces inside you. That with every ddt, you have a light pleasant thought.Treat each ddt as a test. Identify that it is preventing you from doing something that is beneficial for you. Thank it for pointing that out to you, as although I likened it to evil before, it is just as much a part of you as the opposite desires. The duality is normal. They are both part of you. The more you understand this, the more you will recognize what you really want to do.