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• tae_glas@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  intrusive thoughts are about fears and the things we least want to happen, not from any instincts or hidden/suppressed desires that we have. that’s why they’re so upsetting and sometimes end up getting worse when trying to avoid them, because it ends up fuelling that fear.

  sometimes intrusive thoughts are caused by the smallest things, too! i once had a minor accident with a knife, and then couldn’t be around knives for years without having intrusive thoughts about stabbing myself, for example. there’s no ancient instinct telling me to stab myself, nor did i have some secret suppressed desire to stab myself, it was just my brain processing fear badly and coming up with nightmare scenarios as a way of saying “don’t do this, this would be bad”.

  tl;dr: you’re not a bad person if you have intrusive thoughts, no matter what they are. they’re just examples of what you don’t want to happen.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, but…have you tried stabbing yourself? Could be fun! C’mon. Do it. Just a little stab. A stab for the good times. A stab for the bad times. Just…stabby stabby! Mwa ha ha!!!

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• gigastasio@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  This, but with my phone.

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• BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I would say Intrusive thoughts are us processing reptilian instincts, and our logic mind countering instinctual behaviours.

  People should let them flow through without giving them focus. But I know some people get stuck on them, which seems to make them more active.

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• morphballganon@mtgzone.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not limited to children. At my last job I imagined dumping my drink on my seated coworkers many times.

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• ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Loooool that’s a dad, passing, intrusive thought alright. I’m not even one but I can picture it. Yeah, we decide! Free will and all of that.

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  • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I’m a dad and it’s real. I had that a couple times. It’s a total fight-or-flight; just yeet and run and you won’t have to go through this.

    Of course, I did not and I would not have. Scary that it even came up though.

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    • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Oh I didn’t even think about it that way, I was thinking more like “crazy thought” like thinking “hey what if I jumped out this window” or “what would happen if I ran through busy the highway”?.

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