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Shoutout to people with violent intrusive thoughts

Shoutout to people with intrusive thoughts about hurting themselves or others

Shoutout to people who can’t deal with these intrusive thoughts and have panic attacks because of this

Shoutout to people who don’t dare to talk about their intrusive thoughts

Shoutout to people with violent intrusive thoughts

depressionsdaughterxx

Guide to: Intrusive thoughts.

💛you are NOT your thoughts💛

1. Intrusive thoughts are common. Around 2% of the population live with unwanted recurrent and distressing intrusive thoughts, images or impulses.

Some examples of intrusive thoughts:

• Intrusive thoughts or mental images of harming/killing ones spouse, parent, child, or self

• Repeatedly worrying that one has or will physically assault another person

• Repetitive thoughts that one has said or written something inappropriate

• Mental images or thoughts that one considers sacrilegious or blasphemous

2. They cause distress because of the meaning. Often we question , what it means , are we bad?, am i going to hell? (no ur not bad and ur not going to hell! Remember you can’t stop a thought but you can choose what you do with it! Try to replace it with something happy if you can, like your safe space or happy place.

3. Intrusive thoughts are Ego Dystonic, This means that the thoughts are the opposite of what you are! They are contrary to your true nature.

4. Be assured you are NOT alone, my friend 💛 Intrusive thoughts are often kept secret due to the nature of the thoughts. Everyone experiences them so you are not the only good person to have a “bad” thought!!!

p.s. My inbox and asks are ALWAYS open if you guys need to talk about anything ! please do not be scared because I am your friend and I would never judge you 💛

bean-pd

if i could just reach inside my brain and choke the fuck out of my intrusive thoughts i’d kill every single one of those mother fuckers

glazecake

a lot of people make this post but intrusive thoughts are so utterly distressing and terrifying. they are by no means “eat a leaf” or [really random thought]. that’s called thinking. those are impulses. intrusive thoughts make you have meltdowns and cause you utter terror over the fact that your brain can even conceptualize such awful shit. it makes you feel horrific. i would wish intrusive thoughts on nobody. please stop misusing the term

hug-ghosts

💞 When you experience intrusive thoughts.

Stop. And breathe deeply.

Please know that it’s just a thought.

The mind had a thought.

The neurons transmitted some information.

An electro-chemical reaction occurred.

Imagine your thought as a tiny leaf floating away on the wind. A small and insignificant part of nature.

It’s alright. Just let the wind blow it away.

tarttvs

small reminder ❤

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Things no one tells you about Self-Harm

Everyone mentions the same things when they talk about self-harm. This is what I wish someone told me about self-harm before I fell into it’s tight gripping claws.

1) It’s not only the cuts/bruises/burns/scratches that you have to hide. You have to hide the bloodied tissues, the used plasters, the plaster sticker and the thing you used to harm.

2) When you shower the dried blood drips out of your plaster and down your body creating little dark red, almost brown, coloured streams. It scares you at first because you think it’s opened again.

3) It becomes an addiction. It becomes the only thing that helps.

4) It eventually doesn’t help anymore but you keep doing it in the hope it will.

5) Your body will scar and at first you will like it but eventually you get sick looking at them.

6) On a bad day, you run out of space.

7) Your plasters will soak through your jeans or top after a shower and make an obvious square patch.

8) They start to smell bad if not looked after.

9) You constantly think about them.

10) Your sleep will hurt and every move you make will too when they are fresh. You act like you like it. You don’t.

11) People will never take it serious enough.

12) They itch like mad whilst they heal.

13) You eventually get frustrated if it has no effect.

14) You don’t cry when you do it. You feel nothing. Not. A. Thing.

15) It’s so so so hard to escape it.

16) It isn’t beautiful. It isn’t a fairy tale. It won’t help you find love. It is a monster that ruins lives.

Please think of all these things before you hurt yourself. You don’t want to. I sound like a hypocrite because I do but trust me, you don’t want to fall down the dark hole that me and many other people are already in. Put down your fist, blade, lighter, cut your nail short and get help.

I would also like to enclose that I am getting help for mine right now. As of yesterday I am in recovery and want to try and help others from making the same mistake as me. It is never just 1 cut/bruise/scratch/burn. It escalates until you lose control.

Stay Strong

tastemyvalidation

Yes I know the intrusive thoughts aren’t true no that doesn’t mean I can stop believing them.

tempusedax-rerum

Nobody gets this. So frustrating.

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thorny-angel

spacemancharisma

so I saw a post about it that got the point across but had a very aggressive tone — that i disagreed with on the basis of, most people are ignorant about this sort of thing and I don’t want to hold that against them— and it also was (understandably) genuinely very upsetting and possibly triggering to read, so I’ll try to reiterate here.

People often use “intrusive thoughts” to describe thoughts like “eat that leaf” and “pineapple hustler” and other sort of Lawl Random XD thoughts that your brain sometimes just spits at you. These are not intrusive thoughts. These are impulsive thoughts. The difference is critical.

Intrusive thoughts are a symptom of mental illnesses. They aren’t just randomly generated thoughts that pop into your head sometimes. Intrusive thoughts are of a very specific nature. They are violent and deviant and frightening and sickening. They are things that come into your head without warning or cause, and leave you shaken and afraid. Intrusive thoughts disgust you and make you afraid of yourself, because you would never want that, you would never even think that, but you did just think that. It may not have been on purpose, but it did come from you. Intrusive thoughts aren’t funny and don’t make good tumblr posts. They’re the kind of thing you don’t share with anyone because they’d think you’re dangerous to be around. In the meantime, you wrestle with feeling like you’re a monster while trying to understand that it’s not your fault.

I don’t blame anyone for not knowing this; misinformation is powerful. But please go with this knowledge now and act accordingly.

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intrusive thoughts reminder!

Remember:

you have no control over them

they are natural

do not fixate on them, they don’t mean anything

let them go, don’t overthink it. it happens to everyone. relax.

theslytherinworld

That which does not kill me, only makes me weirder and harder to relate to.

!!!!Introverts Unite!!!! Separately… in your own homes…

whethervane

as I’ve continued my therapy adventures, I’ve realized that I actually have intrusive thoughts - I just didn’t recognize them because they didn’t fit the “voice in your head” description I’d always seen. mine is more like the worst future vision possible, and I’ve had thoughts like these on and off ever since I was a little kid.

also, that last scenario actually happened. I absolutely beaned myself in the face with a body wash bottle. didn’t see THAT one comin’, did ya, future vision

(((send me an ask if you’d like this tagged w/ a specific trigger!)))

plantmomstories

I can’t tell you how relieved I am that someone else does this!! Also including my bizarre thought of grabbing the burner on the stove while it’s on this was the reason I didn’t cook on there much because I was sure one day I’d do it because I thought of it every damn time…