[Closed] What's your intrusive unwanted thoughts?

Taking a shatterproof ruler and carving my way out through the accounts department and into forensic history.

i regularly crave Pot Noodles

seriously though to the OP, you're not alone. Had similar thoughts. I recall the comedian Richard Herring making a remark in one of his podcasts about falling down the stairs holing his new baby- not out of fear, but by making a conscious decision.

experienced similar morbid thoughts.

screaming like a banshee during "a minute's silence"

"You're going too fast, you'll probably crash, better pull the brake levers, that drop looks a bit sketchy, etc."

punching people full on in the face... a genuine 100%er too... i'm talking friends/family/colleagues etc... and i just keep thinking, what's stopping me?

i mean, i [b][u]never[/u][/b] would, but genuinely... what is stopping me?

even my 90 year old grandma....

i disgust myself at times

i also wonder what i'd do if my cat went from being a placid lap bound cuddle blanket to being a full on feral/wild animal, he could seriously eff s**t up

and how many 4 year old , hell bent on my destruction, would it take before i would become over powered?

i have problems 😐

Throwing awkward customers off the roof or out of the windows, or maybe just scalding them with hot tea..

"I should probably get back to work and stop browsing forums."

a full on ferrell

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Hanging myself. Even when I am happy, I may spy a rafter or some post or something, and think, 'yep, that'll do.'

Kicking away walking sticks/crutches

no-one admitting to any sexythoughts then?

Ah, "unwanted". As you were.

Kicking away walking sticks/crutches

PMSL

(had that one too)

Wonder what that would taste like fricasseed?

I do wonder if each of these thoughts is the spawning point for a parallel reality where they were acted on.

Hanging myself.

Ive just typed it out, then thought better of it before posting.

jumping off a tall building / bridge. It's not a depression thing (although I do have that going on at times) - it's always been there. Just it suddenly comes into my head, what would stop me just throwing a leg over that wall and jumping off, almost like a 'to see what it would feel like' kind of thing.

What's your intrusive unwanted thoughts?

Eating chicken.

It used to be jumping off something high (like hotel balconies), this nagging thought about what it would be like to do it. But since kids came along, I get more thoughts about horrible stuff happening to them 🙁

I’ve got dozens if not hundreds. Typically I get a flash-back of something I did that was embarrassing and caused me anxiety at the time. It could be 5 years ago or 30, they come out of nowhere and cause me to shudder and sometimes say odd words. It’s weird.

What's Binners wearing?

What's Binners wearing?

Naught but a cheese and onion pasty and a smile.

There, that should change the thought

#strangest

I need a pee 🙁

"If any of you has reasons why these two should not be married, speak now or forever hold your peace."

That I am Nosferatu

sometimes when on a normal road I get a sort of compulsive thought about pulling in front of an HGV coming the other way. resulting in a BIG smash and possible death

its a woody allen gag in annie hall, based around his first visit to see annie's parents and then her brother taking him to one side and confessing the same. the joke being that the brother then drives them back to the airport or wherever they were going (havnt seen the film in years).

I've had the one about swerving into the path of a lorry ever since I seriously considered it in a depressive episode about 20 years ago. Every so often the idea pops into my head, I think it's just my mind scaring me with how easy it would be.
The other one that occurs to me is when I was in freefall down a railway bank (tried to ride it and got kicked otb at the top by a hidden stump). For some reason this was the moment I remembered that I hadn't bought any mayonnaise when I was doing the shopping that morning

I have an inner voice that, every now and then, tells me to kill myself. I have no intention of doing so. I always assumed I was a bit mad (too much acid in my late teens/early twenties can't have helped).

Some of the above comments are reassuring in that other people get the morbid thoughts as well. It's not something I've ever mentioned incase people worry I might actually do it.

Stamping on people's feet if they're wearing 5 Fingers shoes or similar. It's not if, it's when.

The other one is so bad I can barely even type it but, trypophobia. It's like a divide by zero error for my brain, as soon as I get the idea or the image in there it absolutely destroys me- I'm really carefully skirting around thinking about it just now and now I'm going to put some effort into thinking about other things so it can't sneak in. Think it's exactly the sort of thing Jekyll is talking of.

If anyone posts a picture of this, they're a proper **** by the way, it wouldn't be even a little bit funny. And if you google it and it freaks you out, don't say you weren't warned! For most people it's fine, for us chosen few it's brain disease.

Take it you dont like crumpets then @northwind lol.

Every time I see a hacksaw blade I imagine it sawing through my collarbone.
I have absolutely no idea why!

I get the punching one too 😕 it's so awful.
My mother in law, she's a lovely sweet woman and as I was talking to her the other day I had a compulsion to just punch her in the cheek. And for a moment I pictured the consequences, her crying, my wife shouting at me, my father in law rolling up his sleeves. Me ultimately having to leave the marital home and my kids behind, like in a movie flash scene. & 3 2 1 you're back in the room.

The other weird one is on a car ferry, travelling back from France, wouldn't it be awful if these car keys in my pocket just dropped off the boat into the water. LOL. How would we all get home, the ferry people would be so annoyed at the car unable to move. I can picture them dropping into the surf and the ferry just keeps on going.

This is a brilliant story on the subject 🙂

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imp_of_the_Perverse_(short_story)

Launching myself off of anything high above the ground. Walked across a high suspension footbridge the other day and the narrowness of the platform combined with the openness really exaggerated the feeling of wanting to jump. So much so that I stopped and really thought through the motions of it for a couple of minutes before carrying on with my walk.

Work when I'm not there.

OMG, I thought it was just me... 😯

I've got a really long kitchen knife, I can be having a lovely normal conversation with someone. drinking wine, chopping an onion while all the time thinking about driving it between their shoulder blades or into thier tummy...

I can see the window to one of my old classrooms in that Rubberbandits video Gee. 😀

And plenty of familiar scenes from my childhood.

I’ve got dozens if not hundreds. Typically I get a flash-back of something I did that was embarrassing and caused me anxiety at the time. It could be 5 years ago or 30, they come out of nowhere and cause me to shudder and [b]sometimes say odd words[/b]. It’s weird.

Not just me then - I get exactly the same, the 'odd words' bit causes endless problems with the wife as I can't explain what I've just said as "I" didn't consciously say it.

M5 over the Avonmouth bridge. There's no way that those barriers would stop a car at 70mph, 80, 90...
The question is would I do it tide in, landing in water, or tide out, landing in 10m deep mud. How much air time would I get? Seatbelt on or off. Jump out and swim for it, or wait for the splat. Window open or doors locked.

Makes me smile even now.

I get morbid ones when I'm feeling depressed. On a lighter note, when I was a kid I used to get an urge to jump up in the middle of assembly in the school hall and shout and swear!

I've got a really long kitchen knife, I can be having a lovely normal conversation with someone. drinking wine, chopping an onion while all the time thinking about driving it between their shoulder blades or into thier tummy...

I recognise too many of these for comfort. The knife one particularly disturbs me.

jumping off a tall building / bridge.

I think the urge to jump off stuff is quite a common one. I'm uncomfortable staying anywhere with a balcony or open window. Fine most of the time...but then I think, what if I got really drunk and lost all inhibitions?

I get a few of the to some degree to be fair. It's an anxiety/OCD thing.

Jumping off the side of buildings/bridges/cliffs is a regular one.

I think the view on the way down would be calming 😆 😯

I’ve got dozens if not hundreds. Typically I get a flash-back of something I did that was embarrassing and caused me anxiety at the time. It could be 5 years ago or 30, they come out of nowhere and cause me to shudder and sometimes say odd words. It’s weird.

Another one who does that 😀

The urge to slap my boss is a regular one. But that's more to do with her being a complete moron.

Brilliant! My brother and I call this "Thought tourettes", we get it all the time! Didn't realise it was so common.
Just today I passed this twonk from work in the corridor and vividly pictured myself punching him in the side of the head 😆
So many, always in meetings, telling the boss to just F of - not so much in this job, cos the boss is a good bloke (so good we don't have many meetings)!

Have you also just finished reading 'Defender' by GX Todd?????

As its all about the voices inside your head telling you to do bad things to yourself or other people. Its on offer in Tesco just now as well.

Sort of a mix of Book of Eli , and The happening

Northwind - Member

The other one is so bad I can barely even type it but, trypophobia. It's like a divide by zero error for my brain, as soon as I get the idea or the image in there it absolutely destroys me- I'm really carefully skirting around thinking about it just now and now I'm going to put some effort into thinking about other things so it can't sneak in.

Not gonna Google the name, but pretty sure I get this too. And once thought of, I end up in an endless loop of trying not to think about it but being unable to. Grim.

Getting to the top of a climb in Stoney Middleton, coiling up the rope and then just wanting to experience travelling through that space. I was there once when a bloke fell from the top. He landed in a bush (big noise), got up and walked away holding his back saying 'f me'. Absolutely astonishing.
These days it's the reverse, this week I struggled to look over the edge when walking over the Tate Modern's turbine hall.

Throwing people I despise out of my helicopter, currently thwarted by not owning a helicopter but I've compiled a long waiting list.

Driving into a bridge abutment at full spéed with my eyes closed.

I quite often fancy riding off the sea wall either into the sea where I'll drown or onto the rocks where I'd just hurt myself quite badly and lay there crumpled almost out of sight beneath the sea wall for a few hours until spotted by a passer by.

Thanks evolution for the survival instinct 😀

No one else feel the urge to stand way too close to the platform edge when a train is passing through?

When someone is telling me something I sometimes get a strong urge to tell them to **** off you boring sad ****, this urge is intensified the more I like the person talking.

I get the urge to shout out really bad insults at the top of my lungs, including those of a racist or homophobic nature. I'm not either of those abhorrent things but I feel I just want to revel in the shocked silence that would follow.

Jumping off moving ships into the sea.

I try to stay inside.

Yup in serious meetings with customers / directors talking about leveraging synergistic unicorns for ringfencing I get the strong urge to go all falling down and start punching things.

Sometimes I get the urge to start asking highly irrelevant questions out of context..for example, How their weekend was.... If they really think all this rubbish we are discussing matters in life and will that bell end over in the corner just shut the flip up.

Also the jumping off things one.... I think that's quite common.

All of the above at some point, especially the kitchen knife one.

Also eating raw chicken - barely a meal preparation goes by without my wanting to try it.

When going down hill on the road bike I wonder what would it be like if the forks snapped or the front wheel failed or came out of the dropouts . Often I try to keep my mouth closed so that my teeth maybe wouldn't get knocked out and I look for soft landings which generally don't exist . Nothing has ever happened like that in over 35 years of cycling .

I have one and I have no idea where it has come from. It involves me driving on the motorway, undo-ing my seatbelt, opening the car door and me just rolling out the side of the moving car.

It worries me as I have never been diagnosed as depressed/suicidal, but at what point do people decide that these thoughts are more than idle curiosity and decide you actually need to seek help...

OK, so I'm not alone.
Told my girlfriend recently that although I loved our little weekends away to Paris/ New York etc ( in our early years before kids) at the top of every building I fantasised about just jumping.
Every train or tube journey, every day; it still comes into my mind to step off the platform.
Even now with kids, It is still there.
Im not going to do anything, especially now that I have kids, but I will always look over the top of the central staircase in a tall hotel and just think....
Same as Dawson, I as a passenger though, for many years, just want to jump out of the passenger seat and just be alone

The movie theatre scene from episode 5 of The Deuce.

Voting for Brexit ?

"I bet I could kick that pigeon/cat/dog/small child a good thirty yards".

Self destructive ones & the wish to disappear, rude & ignorant people.

I'm very surprised nobody has mentioned getting jiggy with an in-law or colleague

I often have “disaster” thoughts/dreams/daydreams which leave me very scared.

And then googling all that last night leads me to believe I have paranoid personality disorder, which doesn't surprise me at all what with my anxieties and constant anticipation of criticism on here, and my - as quoted by Mrs K - thoroughly defensive and isolate attitude to life.

Note to self ..if any of the above suggest a group ride ..politely decline !

I'm very surprised nobody has mentioned getting jiggy with an in-law or colleague

And back on track...

Jumping from a chairlift (yes, you can have my bike).

The other one that occurs to me is when I was in freefall down a railway bank (tried to ride it and got kicked otb at the top by a hidden stump). For some reason this was the moment I remembered that I hadn't bought any mayonnaise when I was doing the shopping that morning

And you didn't immediately fly up into the air? I think Douglas Adams may have been telling fibs.

It's not just me then.........

It just pops into my head every now and again. Caving my work colleagues head in with a hammer whilst he's leaning down looking at something......

Why?

Emergency Exit door on a plane, that big red handle, soooo tempting at 30,000ft.

No one else feel the urge to stand way too close to the platform edge when a train is passing through?

The promise of being sucked off does make it very tempting...

M5 over the Avonmouth bridge. There's no way that those barriers would stop a car at 70mph, 80, 90...

That's what goes through my mind too - when I'm cycling across it... All it would take is a quick, mindless swerve by a lorry and I'd be toast.

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Then there's the emergency pull cord on a train too...

The promise of being sucked off does make it very tempting...

😀

[i]When going down hill on the road bike I wonder what would it be like if the forks snapped[/i]

Every damn day! Out of work, turn left, downhill... even more so now that your post will go through my head!

I get a flash-back of something I did that was embarrassing and caused me anxiety at the time. It could be 5 years ago or 30, they come out of nowhere and cause me to shudder and sometimes say odd words.

yeah this. I have a couple in particular, they're not even that bad really (probably more a reflection of my mental health back then) that can still stop me in my tracks, wincing, almost tearful, biting my fist 20 years later 😐

also:

what would it be like if a lorry ran over my foot? how much would it hurt? If it was going quickly. A lot? Broken bones? Completely crushed? Or maybe the rubber tyre would cushion it? I could try it, just stick my foot out now. Bit dangerous though. Wouldn't really want all 6 wheels going over it either. But what would it be like?

M5 over the Avonmouth bridge. There's no way that those barriers would stop a car at 70mph, 80, 90...

someone tried that on the Humber Bridge