Intrusive thoughts

[Jilllayy]

Does anyone get intrusive thoughts? I tend to get these when I am anxious and find it hard to shake sometimes.

 

[bin_tenn]

Yep, used to experience them often. I still get them when I'm having an uptick in overall anxiety. Anxiety causes us to think the worst and jump to conclusions, even when they're not rational or likely. Combating intrusive thoughts is often accomplished, for me, by distracting myself and getting my mind on something entirely unrelated.

 

[Brad66]

Yea mine are present right now. Mine are definitely fear based around losing control of myself. I tend to get them when I am going through a stressful period and I am trying to relax by watching TV or a movie. During the winter my stress levels are definitely harder to keep down so it's no surprise to me that I have them now.

The best thing to do is just see them as a symptom of stress, don't engage with them by trying to figure them out, and don't try to stop them. They will pass eventually.

 

[triceps]

I'm rarely able to shake them completely but thankfully am able to see them as the irrational thinking that it is.

 

[MainerMikeBrown]

I do tend to obsess about certain things.

For example, I used to work with a case manager who kept ramming his opinion down my throat that I should do this, this, and this. He meant well. But I'm still annoyed at him and mad at myself for not standing up for myself as well as go with a new case manager like I should have. I think about it a lot.

 

[Lanchparty7]

I’m not in a good place right now and this is one of the many things I am struggling with.

 

[Hurt&Hopeful]

I’m not in a good place right now and this is one of the many things I am struggling with.

I'm right there with you. Hang in there!

 

[Kishore Kumar]

Anxiety feeds on our intrusive thoughts and i have been a long sufferer of this...i wish we could have been given a switch to switch 'OFF' these thoughts straight away....