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Originally Posted by Readytostop
Okay... I hear people talk about intrusive thoughts but I don't really understand what that means.... is it memories or bits of memories or just your mind telling you evil things?
In session this week, my T and I were talking about making friends and I said that I didn't know why anyone would want to be friends with me unless I could do something for them... T went off in another direction but in my head I was having this different conversation and I told myself why no one would want to be friends with me.... because you are a "worthless piece of sh_t".. but its not a phrase that I have ever remember hearing (although I have dissociative amnesia for parts of my childhood) or ever using... and its a phrase that has been stuck in my head since Thursday... Yet somehow it seems so familiar... so right when I hear it..
Could this just be me remembering something? or is this what people refer to as intrusive thoughts?
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if you are here where I live and work and the mental community believes what they do here where I live and work then no thants not what we believe here to be intrusive thoughts.. here we believe thats having an internal dialogue with yourself. people do that all the time even normal people..
an example of an intrusive thought is like right now Im reading posts here on Psych central. I read a post about DID but my head is thinking about an arguement I had with one of my parents some yrs ago..
the arguement my parents and I had, had nothing to do with my being DID, nothing in common with the post I read. my head just reverted to that annoying conversation out of the blue..
another example of an intrusive thought
this morning I was at my desk at the crisis center. the phone rang and I was talking with a victim of abuse but somewhere int he conversation my head went back to my wife telling me we were out of milk and could I pick some up if I happened to go past the store. the milk, the store and my wife had nothing to do with the conversation with the phone call and victim.. it just "intruded" where it didnt belong. it interrupted my thoughts, conversation and helping the client on the phone.
these are mild examples.
more major examples would be my having an intimate moment with my wife and my head starts thinking about something that happened yrs before I met my wife. my wife didnt abuse me and wasnt even around when i was abused but sometimes during intimate moments thoughts of the past intrudes upon what Im trying to do here in the present.