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HALF of US Can't Understand Normal Thinking is a candid look at many national afflictions most Americans are afraid to discuss. I've known Steve Horner since.
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I will repeat it - we are all "normal" in the context of anxiety sufferers. No, we are not normal for people who don't dont have anxiety. That would be the psychopath. But I have such high anxiety that it wants to make my life terrible, but I don't let it. I recently read up on limerence as I got in touch with a woman I had a short affair with over 27 years ago. I noticed that intrusive thoughts happen to people in this state of mind and it has me bummed. I can't get her out of my mind and feel the same sort of love sickness I did almost 3 decades ago. I know this too, shall pass, but what a phenomenon.

Conventional wisdom say "do some activity that requires concentration so you can get it out of your head, but even then it intrudes. It wasn't quite the same as your story, but I know this feeling. It has been explained to me that I fear intimacy with others and so my mind finds someone completely unavailable - someone I could never be with and who I am not around - to attach itself to.

It is interesting that I never feel this attachment to people who I actually, know, in my actual life, who are actually available to me. I assume you are the same. It is a problem that derives from early childhood when attachment to a caregiver was both frightening and desired perhaps your mother or father had mental health problems or large mood swings or could otherwise be frightening to a child?

The problem with the unwanted intrusions comes about in my case because there is something I have to face in my life in the moment - perhaps there are other relationships under threat or I would feel pressure to be close to someone - then I might start to experience obsessions or intrusions about either people I have never met or people I know I won't see again. It is not about the person you experience these thoughts over - although it is easy to come to that conclusion because it seems logically to be about 'something to do with them' - but the clue to your discomfort likes in the fact the relationship was 'brief' - you did not know them well so you can make them up in your mind to be an 'ideal' person.

The very fact that those you know in real life turn out to be perfectly normal human beings is exactly why they disappoint and fail to have the same allure as the imaginary ideal in your head. The ideal is very convenient, because it can never happen, so you never have to risk real intimacy with anyone. Can you think of any time you had a chance for intimacy and have pushed them away in some way? If so, you are like me. You do not want closeness, you find it disturbing, so you find ways to have closeness only in your perfect imagination.

I am so glad I found this. I have been so worried about my intrusive thoughts and what they ment as far as my mental stability. I have not been diagnosed, but I suffer from anxiety and depression. I have decided to make an apt to see someone about it. I too feel like I am going to freak out and go crazy one day or become out of control of my own mind.

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I think that is one of my biggest fears. It is sad we have to live with excessive worry, but nice to know I am not alone in how I feel every day. In some small way it helps. Thanks to all who share here.

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I'm not sure if i'm completely OCD or if it's just an intrusive thought and I don't actually have the disorder. So about 3 weeks ago, I was sitting in the kitchen while my mom was washing the dishes and a very unwelcome thought popped into my head.


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I thought "Wow, it would be so easy to kill someone because nobody would expect it from me" I have good grades, model student, good upbringing, got scholarships for college, etc And god it just completely filled me with regret and anguish. I felt so scared for having thought that, I felt like I was going to go crazy and it was really scary. I had the thoughts for about a week, and then they calmed down because I know I would never act upon them.

But they started again last week and they've been bothering me ever since. I hate that this has plagued me for so long. Again, i know i would never act upon the thought because honestly I cant even bring myself to kill a spider, much less a human being.

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And also, it just comes as a thought. I can't actually imagine myself doing it like it just doesn't happen. But it still scares me because it's like I think I would actually enjoy it though I know I wouldn't. I'm honestly just messaging you because I hate the fact that I had the thought in the first place, and it's really scary. I feel like I have nobody to talk to because that's not necessarily something you say in public. I know it's just a thought and that I would never act on it but it's still scary. Hey, I feel you! I really do! I've been there. It's been kind of bad lately, but I know it's my anxiety.

I had my best friend over a few weeks ago, and I was fine. I didn't really do it. But now? It's happening more because I'm stressed with school.

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Don't think you're a bad person. It's part of our way of being anxious. I am a lot like you - the model student. I think, at least, that part of our issue is everything we hear. We are anxious and hypersensitive, so we take it all in. How many murderers were the "guy next door" type? That's all they say!

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It's all we hear. But, then, in the small print it has to say "actually, he was weird. I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one going through this, thank you for replying! I've never really been diagnosed with OCD or anxiety so I just don't know where this is coming from. I was able to contact a doctor upstate because I saw his web page and I emailed him about what I was going though. He said the thoughts are completely normal, and that people tend to have them but most people just brush them off saying "wow what an odd thought" while others keep thinking about it which leads to the vicious cycle of OCD.

He told me the best way to really get rid of them is to remind yourself they're just thoughts, which I have been doing for the past few days and its really helped.