[RainyMood]

Hello there!
There is a stupid obsessive thought that I have a lot recently,and I am wondering if someone else has ever expierenced too.
I tend to think and day-dream a lot.One day while I was thinking something stupid,a thought crossed my mind...What if accidentally I was talking,I was ``pronouncing`` my thoughts,so others could hear me and know what I was thinking?Then they would perceive me as stupid,weird,they would hate me and I would be so embarrassed,so exposed,so vulnerable and my life would be destroyed.

[Direction]

I'm thankful that others can't read our actual thoughts...I've thought about this before. My mind is a lot like a ping pong ball going back and forth from stable to unstable, anxious to not anxius, etc. (as well as everything in between)

However, I am amazed at how quickly they all pick up on my body language. Obviously more telling that the actual words that come out of my mouth.

[mtd]

my experience is a bit different than this, but not much. I hate to admit it, but I'm more likely to worry that someone in the room can read my mind. I have to work hard sometimes to talk myself out of this, becuase it's really more than I'm worried about what people think of me and whether they are looking at me to judge me. Then I start to worry about whether I dressed o.k, or is my hair messed up, or whatever else I can worry about. At these times, I just have to repeat positive affirmations about myself until I believe that I am o.k.

Be well,

mtd

[RainyMood]

Hey,Mtd!It seems we deal with the same condition.Does it have a name?Maybe we should find one.
I hope you`re doing Ok.

[mtd]

I'm gonna call it, peoplearelookingatmeitis. I'm gonna try to treat it with those little cheese cubes they put toothpicks in to pick them up.

If that doesn't work, I'm gonna keep trying to believe in myself a bit more each day until the swelling goes away.

Be well, friend.

mtd

thought broadcast.

when you think that your thoughts are being broadcast outside your mind so other people can 'hear' them.

something that might help...

is to contemplate what you might hear if other peoples thoughts were broadcast to you so that you could hear them.

they would probably be more similar thoughts to your thoughts than you think (i.e., i'd be pretty darned scared / embarrassed / ashamed if other people could hear my thoughts too!)

[Estee1]

Hi. Sometimes I worry so muxh that I will speak out the thoughts that I am having. It is scary. I actually don't remember ever doing it though. I would die of embarrassment if I spoke out my crazy thoughts. I worry about what people would think of me. I do this quite often.

no one would want to hear my thoughts.....i understand........xoxox pat

[Fuzzybear]

I understand

xo Fuzzy