🧠 What Are Your Intrusive Thoughts Trying to Convince You of Today??

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Intrusive Thoughts - those unwanted, persistent, out of nowhere thoughts that ping into your brain randomly?

Mine have two flavors - A unhinged middle school bad kid always trying to get me I trouble (his name is probably like Axel and he shoplifts) OR the ethereal, slightly burnt out, well meaning girl (imagine Luna Lovegood at 35).

What are those little angels and devils on your mental shoulders trying to convince you of today?



PSA - I'm well aware these thoughts can be a serious struggle for people but sometimes they are funny or downright absurd, occasionally even out of character lovely. Let's keep it from getting too dark, though if you ever need someone to talk to seriousness, I'm around and I know there are lots of folks who would do the same.
 
Good thought - I saw this fuxking stunning girl working in Target yesterday and (after a loop around the store), in a very neutral way I told her that if no one told her she was gorgeous today that she is. She smiled, I walked away. It's easy to keep those thoughts inside but whenever someone has done that to me, it's made my month. Why not pass it on?? (Yes I know men can't quite get away with this like girls can)

Bad thought - while using my big industrial paper cutter, I thought.... how much would it hurt if just....eeek!
 
I'm on meds to keep the darkest, severest intrusive thoughts at bay. Usually it works. Sometimes it doesn't.

There's morning it's just a little voice in my head saying, "We're fucked, we're fucked, we're fucked, we're fucked," over and over again. But it's also leaving room to say, "remember we're going to the Kiwanis Fish Fry for dinner tonight, so that's nice."
 
I'm on meds to keep the darkest, severest intrusive thoughts at bay. Usually it works. Sometimes it doesn't.

There's morning it's just a little voice in my head saying, "We're fucked, we're fucked, we're fucked, we're fucked," over and over again. But it's also leaving room to say, "remember we're going to the Kiwanis Fish Fry for dinner tonight, so that's nice."

Fish fry JUST balances the fact that we're fucked. Yum!
 
I annoyed a good friend yesterday by being a bit too frank, so today the dark side of my mind is saying 'you've lost your friend! You've lost your friend! You've lost your friend!!" Trouble is that if I loose her I loose contact with the whole family, and they have all become rather dear to me.
 
I gave up on dating in January of 2011 because I realized that no matter how hard I try, I just can't compete with guys that are more desirable than I am. 14 years later, I'm more convinced than ever that I made the right decision, no matter how painful it is.
 
Today I had an intrusive thought that I'm not good enough for the one man who loves making me feel like I'm so great...
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