Vera, I do believe it is trauma related and more common than recognized in cases of severe violent trauma, rapes, ongoing domestic abuse and chronic childhood abuse.

Yes, vera this most definately has and happens with me too, yet more uncontrollably and frightening in my past. These days I'm able to flip over my imagined/ envisioned violent and sometimes horrific assaults and imagery and see what fears, emot.'s and still unresolved thoughts and/or trauma exist beneath it.

I'm yet to stop it completely, but rather do best with self-acknowledgement of it, accepting it and me, learning something from it and the it's power/ force is taken from it and I move on with my day.

I've learned not to let them scare me and this is true of even any intrusive, obsessive or hateful thoughts, that I too can out-of-the-blue get stuck in my mind.

Though these are a little different and almost entirely gone, then those occasional, violent visual imageries.

Both seem to have greatly lessened, to differing degrees, when I:

own,
understand,
accept,
forgive myself,
become willing to let go of
and move on.

Whereas, as a kid I'd turn and hate myself for such intrusive violent fantasies or compulsive bitter thoughts. Not own them and try anything or everything under the sun to forcibly distract myself from them. Often this did not work for me and sometimes it did work temp., but it still resulted in me misunderstanding, forbidding self-acceptance and in hating myself while thinking myself wicked.

Meanwhile, I neglected to admit to, own, or even broach still many specific areas of my hidden trauma(s), as I thought this would then kill me. This never helped this problem.

Hope this makes any sense at all vera, as I know it's wordy.

Anyhow, Take Care Vera and I think you've asked and opened up for some discussion, a very good question above.

((hugs)) You're not alone.
((and more ))


Hope