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chaz-gelf:beastlyart:boosket:ask-bloody-fundanny:roughkiss:spookytheford:did-you-kno:SourceOh god thank fucking christ.I usually don’t reblog these, but I feel like some of my followers could probably use the reassurance. I definitely have these kinds of thoughts sometimes.so i’m not crazy for randomly thinking such thoughts? what a relief!Edgar Allan Poe had a name for it too: The Imp of the Perverse. he compared the impulses to a demon that urges people to do the wrong thing simply because it can be doneThe compulsion to jump from high places is called “l’appel du vide“ in French. The call of the void. I think it’s specific to that one instance, but I think it’s a cool phrase for this phenomenon in general.I think about this with random sharp objects laying around, too. “What if I just jammed this into my eye or throat right now? … oh god WHAT.” Just… fucking christ, brain. Don’t.Glad I’m not the only one who’s thought things like this. Like if I’m having a conversation with my parents or my favourite teacher or my best friend sometimes my brain will give me thoughts like “Hey how quickly do you think this conversation would end if you up and punched this person in the face?”. I also commonly have intrusive thoughts about “What would happen if I jumped out the passenger seat of this car right now?” I always snap back to my senses though XD Like “Dude what the hell why were you thinking that?”And to add to this, intrusive thoughts are actually very common in OCD sufferers and are often triggers. My mental breakdown in 2009 was triggered by an intrusive thought that wouldn’t leave my head for several months, and since it was all my brain could think about during that time I was struggling to function. It’s referred to as Purely Obsessional OCD or Primarily Obsessional OCD (and sometimes shorthanded as Pure O) because the focus of this brand of OCD is on the obsessions and the only visible compulsion is repeated fact-checking to calm oneself down. Unfortunately, sufferers - myself included - often don’t find clear answers, and so searching for things often only makes the thoughts worse.Intrusive thoughts happen to everybody, but when they happen to someone with OCD programmed into their brain, they can be debilitating. (In my case, I had an identity crisis and thought that I didn’t know what my sexual orientation was even though I did, which happens to people of all sexual orientations with purely obsessional OCD - I thought that even though I was attracted to men I could have secretly been a lesbian without my brain and body knowing it for 19 years, whilst many homosexual people with OCD have believed themselves to be straight and many bisexual people have believed themselves to only be interested in one gender. It’s irrational, and we know it’s irrational, and it makes it worse.)Basically, OCD is not something to take lightly, and if an intrusive thought sticks with you and causes you severe anxiety for an extended period of time, you might have to consider the possibility that you’ve got it, too. -- source link
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