Intrusive thoughts are too much!

I know they are common...do yours ever start to scare even yourself and feel like too much?

I find them annoying because it makes it hard to power think.

Do they ever cause anxiety because they slightly become urges?

It just starts pissing me off, it gets in my way. I can tell the difference between my alters talking over intrusive thought, unless they're screwing with me which I seriously doubt.

I guess when you hear voices in the head all the time, one gets used to it, lol

Yeah i once spent five hours with intrusive thoughts to cut my finger off
No fuuun

Intrusive thoughts suck, Yes I scare myself.

My do tend to scare me, especially if I am manic or mixed because no matter how hard I try, i cannot control them. Some of the things that pop into my head are just evil...

Yes. This. ^^

Whats in my head is unlike me and crazy

Yeah I have terrible intrusive thoughts, evil, mean thats why I always think I am a bad bad person because I have these UNWANTED thoughts and urges. They do get too much at times but my best techniques has been to acknowledge the thoughts for what they are "this is just an intrusive thought and it means nothing" and then I dismiss it and move on with my day. They come back but again its acknowledge and dismiss constantly.

Ive had them since forever but when i learned what they were and that thrre was an actual NAME for them it made me feel somewhat better
Like ohhh this is a thing...and other ppl have them tooo. Im not sick/evil/the spawn of satan after all!

Yeh, they scare me a lot too at times, especially when they are destructive thoughts. I am sorry you are struggling with them. What do you do Halliebeth to manage them? I use distraction a lot but sometimes nothing seems to help so would be very interested in what helps others too. Hang in there!

I try to just ignore them.

They're only at their worse when I'm in a mixed state or depressed. So annoying. Withdrawling off a drug it's freaking bad. They scream at me.

Mine is just a little scary

Mine are just a constant stream, hard to think without it leading into one. I normally try to sing over mine.

Luckily I'm afraid of guns so I don't think I'll bd going to buy one

Same here!

This is what is going on with me. I had a bit of a fiasco with insurance this year, so mine didn't actually kick in until Feb 1st. So I've had like 2 weeks where I haven't had Ativan, which I am supposed to take 3x daily. I almost pierced my own septum the other day. I was like, "OH I WANT TO PIERCE MY FACE." Luckily, I didn't. I am a paralegal and I can't exactly have facial piercings.

I still have no idea where the idea to pierce myself came from. I just had this urge to poke a hole in my face.