intrusive thoughts

Ok Krystal, You are not Crazy, not even close, unfortunately this fear is all to common. Something to think
about, Yes you are good otherwise these thoughts would not bother you, if you will hang around here and
read the other posts many of the others will jump on here with better ideas than I have, just stop worrying
you will walk away from this and be a stronger person for having gone through it, Peace

Larry ***

I had a lot of anxiety when I found out my brother was very sick. It built to the point that I had some pretty strange intrusive thoughts. I went to the Employee Assistance Program at work and spoke with a therapist over several weeks. It's comforting to tell someone your thoughts that you think may be strange and have them not react. He told me we all have intrusive thoughts, all people, anxious and calm, but the anxiety prone people tend to spend time thinking about those thoughts, where other people would just dismiss them and move on.

It seems like the more we don't want the thoughts, the more we may get them if we have anxiety. In the subconscious mind, thoughts exist without judgement, good and bad together. Our conscious minds determine what is right and what is wrong. Just because those thoughts pop up doesn't mean that you'll do what the thoughts are. Try to relax and let the thoughts go by remembering that all people get intrusive thoughts, there is nothing wrong with you.

I am glad to read that you are in therapy/counseling! This will no doubt be very beneficial to you.:)

It does take time, so be patient with yourself and the process.

Whether you take your Rx or not, is up to you, and what you feel most comfortable with of course.

Some people find that meds help to get the anxiety and symptoms to a place of being able to focus on their work in therapy...rather than being less productive/distracted due to the high levels of anxious symptoms.

However, I took the route of trying therapy first, with the option of using medication if the therapy did not suffice. I found that though it was a rough start...this was what worked for me, and I never ended up needing to fill my prescription.

You will just have to go with what you feel is right for YOU! :)

Keep talking with us, and we will support you along this journey.

S.C.

Hey I have the same thing ! I am having a lot of problems because of taking prescriptions, none work for me I get tons of side effects. Well what has helped me is to realize that I have Pure Obsessional OCD. I had every intrusive thought you just mentioned. Every intrusive thought that comes from it is not real and its just a weird thing that my brain is focusing to blame the anxiety on. The deep problem of my anxiety is that I get anxious about something and I start to find ways to reassure myself that I don't have nothing and that I am not crazy and I am ok. For example if I see some random show about being psychotic , I say OMG what if I have that ? And I start thinking and worrying and wondering. What has helped me is to think " Yes I could be psychotic and I could be evil and do many bad things" and yes I freak out bit but then I feel peace because I realize its just my anxiety. I do this because if i keep trying to reassure to have control and to make sure that I am ok, I will always live in fear. tomorrow you can be scared of something else, anything ! Believe me you know who you are, you have to learn to accept uncertainty! that is the whole problem about intrusive thoughts if we said " Yeah that is scary and don't care" we would not have anxiety. That is what normal people do , they let go of things and worries like this. Everyone has thoughts like this we just think to much about them. You can try any SSRIs maybe it can work for you, for me it didn't I think I just have to learn to deal with this myself.

Take care !

I have thoughts like this as well. They are something I live with every day. The meds really don't help me with them, I have to learn to TRY and handle the obsessive thoughts.


I hope you can as well. We are here for you.