Steven45
06-25-2008, 07:43 PM
Hi people
Does anyone else here ever have negative, repetitive or obsessive thoughts enter their mind for no apparent reason and just "out of the blue"?. I can be sitting there just watching TV and relaxing when all of a sudden my mind drifts toward something that happened 10-15 years ago when someone said or did something that really irritated me and so I'll sit there stewing over it and miss half of the program I was watching and then suddenly realize that the person I'm getting angry about has been dead for 8 years!.
Or, I'll have these images in my mind where a loved one has passed away and I'm bawling and crying over their coffin or perhaps I suddenly (and for no reason at all) begin thinking about a loved one getting into a horrible automobile accident.
Then, there are the obsessive sexual thoughts that come and go and drive me crazy. They just hit me out of the blue and no matter what I try, they just don't seem to go away. I've also had these "images" in my mind of me hurting someone or someone hurting me and usually, it's a loved one. Of course I would NEVER hurt a loved one but these thoughts are still there and they come and go at random time (like when I'm watching TV, working outside, washing dishes, etc). Sometimes I feel like I'm losing my mind because I don't even WANT these thoughts to begin with and I wish they would just GO AWAY.
Other times, I'll be having a really good day and plan to relax but just about the time I sit down with a bowl of popcorn and get ready to watch a movie or something, my mind will fill up with all sorts of depressing thoughts about people and pets dying, me ending up on the streets, losing my job, nasty people in the world and rotten people I have met in my past. Sometimes these thoughts make me feel really cynical about people and life in general.
Can anyone here relate??.
- Steve
Does anyone else here ever have negative, repetitive or obsessive thoughts enter their mind for no apparent reason and just "out of the blue"?. I can be sitting there just watching TV and relaxing when all of a sudden my mind drifts toward something that happened 10-15 years ago when someone said or did something that really irritated me and so I'll sit there stewing over it and miss half of the program I was watching and then suddenly realize that the person I'm getting angry about has been dead for 8 years!.
Or, I'll have these images in my mind where a loved one has passed away and I'm bawling and crying over their coffin or perhaps I suddenly (and for no reason at all) begin thinking about a loved one getting into a horrible automobile accident.
Then, there are the obsessive sexual thoughts that come and go and drive me crazy. They just hit me out of the blue and no matter what I try, they just don't seem to go away. I've also had these "images" in my mind of me hurting someone or someone hurting me and usually, it's a loved one. Of course I would NEVER hurt a loved one but these thoughts are still there and they come and go at random time (like when I'm watching TV, working outside, washing dishes, etc). Sometimes I feel like I'm losing my mind because I don't even WANT these thoughts to begin with and I wish they would just GO AWAY.
Other times, I'll be having a really good day and plan to relax but just about the time I sit down with a bowl of popcorn and get ready to watch a movie or something, my mind will fill up with all sorts of depressing thoughts about people and pets dying, me ending up on the streets, losing my job, nasty people in the world and rotten people I have met in my past. Sometimes these thoughts make me feel really cynical about people and life in general.
Can anyone here relate??.
- Steve
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FitnessCook35
06-26-2008, 04:09 PM
Read my post...in the OCD boards...
seekcalmness
08-08-2008, 10:40 PM
I can relate because recently I was in the grocery store, and all of a sudden I caught myself staring at the bags of lettuce because I had gone almost numb from my reaction to my thoughts...I walked in the store feeling okay and like 10 min later out of no where, I feel terrible. Its hard.
pandorakitten
08-09-2008, 06:10 AM
I can relate. what you are getting is called intruive thoughts. what you have to realise is Everyone gets them from time to time, but the difference is people who have obsessive minds will analys the thoughts to a great degree and come to a conclusion that isn't real.
seeing your doctor would be the next best step, they can explain to you better what you're experiencing.
hope i was of some help.
take care.
seeing your doctor would be the next best step, they can explain to you better what you're experiencing.
hope i was of some help.
take care.
Goulet
08-09-2008, 09:59 AM
I have had very similar thoughts, usually it involves someone close to me betraying me and I come up with very elaborate scenarios. I'm not convinced its bad enough where i would think i have OCD, but I'll describe the general process.
They usually involve three things...
1) Someone I love
2) Something tragic happening
3) How I would deal with it
This can vary from a car crash to betrayal to them finding out some dark secret about me. Usually i lose time when I think about these things, but am able to bring myself out of it.
They usually involve three things...
1) Someone I love
2) Something tragic happening
3) How I would deal with it
This can vary from a car crash to betrayal to them finding out some dark secret about me. Usually i lose time when I think about these things, but am able to bring myself out of it.
sweetmarie14
09-01-2008, 05:59 PM
I have had very similar thoughts, usually it involves someone close to me betraying me and I come up with very elaborate scenarios. I'm not convinced its bad enough where i would think i have OCD, but I'll describe the general process.
They usually involve three things...
1) Someone I love
2) Something tragic happening
3) How I would deal with it
This can vary from a car crash to betrayal to them finding out some dark secret about me. Usually i lose time when I think about these things, but am able to bring myself out of it.
yeah it always happens to me as well. it just goes on my mind - pictures of hurting someone I love like saying bad words to them or hurting them emotionally. ( although you don't mean those words or you don't really want to hurt them, it just goes on your mind over and over ). then you get back those words by yourself in your head by saying "sorry, i didn't mean that " so you don't feel so guilty.
It is bothering for me, it caused emotional guilt on my part. I thought I was so bad having those unpleasant thoughts. I mean how could I be so bad thinking of those things? But now, certainly, I can feel I am somehow normal, there are other people who are actually going through this tough times.
They usually involve three things...
1) Someone I love
2) Something tragic happening
3) How I would deal with it
This can vary from a car crash to betrayal to them finding out some dark secret about me. Usually i lose time when I think about these things, but am able to bring myself out of it.
yeah it always happens to me as well. it just goes on my mind - pictures of hurting someone I love like saying bad words to them or hurting them emotionally. ( although you don't mean those words or you don't really want to hurt them, it just goes on your mind over and over ). then you get back those words by yourself in your head by saying "sorry, i didn't mean that " so you don't feel so guilty.
It is bothering for me, it caused emotional guilt on my part. I thought I was so bad having those unpleasant thoughts. I mean how could I be so bad thinking of those things? But now, certainly, I can feel I am somehow normal, there are other people who are actually going through this tough times.
sweetmarie14
09-01-2008, 06:02 PM
Hi people
Does anyone else here ever have negative, repetitive or obsessive thoughts enter their mind for no apparent reason and just "out of the blue"?. I can be sitting there just watching TV and relaxing when all of a sudden my mind drifts toward something that happened 10-15 years ago when someone said or did something that really irritated me and so I'll sit there stewing over it and miss half of the program I was watching and then suddenly realize that the person I'm getting angry about has been dead for 8 years!.
Or, I'll have these images in my mind where a loved one has passed away and I'm bawling and crying over their coffin or perhaps I suddenly (and for no reason at all) begin thinking about a loved one getting into a horrible automobile accident.
Then, there are the obsessive sexual thoughts that come and go and drive me crazy. They just hit me out of the blue and no matter what I try, they just don't seem to go away. I've also had these "images" in my mind of me hurting someone or someone hurting me and usually, it's a loved one. Of course I would NEVER hurt a loved one but these thoughts are still there and they come and go at random time (like when I'm watching TV, working outside, washing dishes, etc). Sometimes I feel like I'm losing my mind because I don't even WANT these thoughts to begin with and I wish they would just GO AWAY.
Other times, I'll be having a really good day and plan to relax but just about the time I sit down with a bowl of popcorn and get ready to watch a movie or something, my mind will fill up with all sorts of depressing thoughts about people and pets dying, me ending up on the streets, losing my job, nasty people in the world and rotten people I have met in my past. Sometimes these thoughts make me feel really cynical about people and life in general.
Can anyone here relate??.
- Steve
yeah it always happens to me as well. it just goes on my mind - pictures of hurting someone I love like saying bad words to them or hurting them emotionally. ( although you don't mean those words or you don't really want to hurt them, it just goes on your mind over and over ). then you get back those words by yourself in your head by saying "sorry, i didn't mean that " so you don't feel so guilty.
It is bothering for me, it caused emotional guilt on my part. I thought I was so bad having those unpleasant thoughts. I mean how could I be so bad thinking of those things? But now, certainly, I can feel I am somehow normal, there are other people who are actually going through this tough times.
Does anyone else here ever have negative, repetitive or obsessive thoughts enter their mind for no apparent reason and just "out of the blue"?. I can be sitting there just watching TV and relaxing when all of a sudden my mind drifts toward something that happened 10-15 years ago when someone said or did something that really irritated me and so I'll sit there stewing over it and miss half of the program I was watching and then suddenly realize that the person I'm getting angry about has been dead for 8 years!.
Or, I'll have these images in my mind where a loved one has passed away and I'm bawling and crying over their coffin or perhaps I suddenly (and for no reason at all) begin thinking about a loved one getting into a horrible automobile accident.
Then, there are the obsessive sexual thoughts that come and go and drive me crazy. They just hit me out of the blue and no matter what I try, they just don't seem to go away. I've also had these "images" in my mind of me hurting someone or someone hurting me and usually, it's a loved one. Of course I would NEVER hurt a loved one but these thoughts are still there and they come and go at random time (like when I'm watching TV, working outside, washing dishes, etc). Sometimes I feel like I'm losing my mind because I don't even WANT these thoughts to begin with and I wish they would just GO AWAY.
Other times, I'll be having a really good day and plan to relax but just about the time I sit down with a bowl of popcorn and get ready to watch a movie or something, my mind will fill up with all sorts of depressing thoughts about people and pets dying, me ending up on the streets, losing my job, nasty people in the world and rotten people I have met in my past. Sometimes these thoughts make me feel really cynical about people and life in general.
Can anyone here relate??.
- Steve
yeah it always happens to me as well. it just goes on my mind - pictures of hurting someone I love like saying bad words to them or hurting them emotionally. ( although you don't mean those words or you don't really want to hurt them, it just goes on your mind over and over ). then you get back those words by yourself in your head by saying "sorry, i didn't mean that " so you don't feel so guilty.
It is bothering for me, it caused emotional guilt on my part. I thought I was so bad having those unpleasant thoughts. I mean how could I be so bad thinking of those things? But now, certainly, I can feel I am somehow normal, there are other people who are actually going through this tough times.
meowkittymeow
09-14-2008, 07:14 PM
I totally relate, and I am also in seek of help!