Hi adj92

Thank you for sharing this with us.

Yes, this does make sense to me the way that you have described this to me.

I get very confused too sometimes if I feel that I have no control of certain things as I am the kind of person who likes to have some reasonable explanation in my mind or at least clarity as to why I am thinking certain things.

And it can be distressing if I start to wonder if my thoughts are "normal".

Because when I think this I have to ask myself what is normal?

I don't know really adj if I have ever come up with a definition of normal in my personal life.

When I try to think of this word normal I think to myself normal works like this for me:

I ask myself are my thoughts / behaviour interfering with my day to day functioning? Like as in am I possibly dwelling a bit much on my thoughts / behaviours? When possibly I could be doing other things?

And then I think to myself well yes if I am becoming a bit pre occupied with these thoughts then yes this must be something that I must seek to address so that I can figure out the underlying cause.

I think this way adj because as humans we really are allowed to all have different tastes in what we think about and have subjective opinions on issues.

It's about whether or not these may be impacting us - and more specifically - impacting us negatively - that really counts.

This is my interpretation of this.

I hope that this is a little bit useful.

Please take care of yourself.