Do You Have Intrusive Thoughts?

[EmoxxKid]

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[anthony]

Hi Emoxxkid,

Just for learning purposes, I changed your poll to more accurately reflect what your asking. When conducting a poll you must very accurately place your questions to cover all aspects, though never double tap a question worded differently nor should you use "never" "always" etc. Stick as much to possible as Yes or No with possible variations.

Example; you have the following:

Yes, I am being treated for them as we speak.
Never.
At times I have them, but they are not the most bothersome issue of mine.
Yes, they are one of the worst symptoms I have to deal with.If you look at the first one, it doesn't really reflect a conclusive answer apart from the person is in some form of counselling. The second is NO, the third replicates the first though does make a statement, being yes you have them though they are not a major aspect. The last is also accurate, making a clear statement.

The reason I changed it to the current one's is so your poll now reflects a definitive and conclusive result, hence why you have a poll, to get a definitive result without possible clashes.

Hope that helps, just trying to help you through your first poll experiences. Please do keep up the great work though and create polls. Please do not be offended by my changing it, merely a learning curve to creating polls; one we all learn, myself included.

[Marlene]

When the stress goes up, that little nasty voice that tells me whatever I do is not, and will never be, enough starts back up.

I hate having to use my energy to quiet that voice. I just wish it would go away.

Lisa

[EmoxxKid]

Oh god I understand Marlene!! When I am alone it's the worst for me.

[batgirl]

Me too, I wouldn't call it my worst symptom, but it is a lot worse when I'm alone, and gets worse and worse the longer I'm by myself. Even though I'm really not social, being around people helps with this. I think it keeps me distracted and concentrating on myself less.

[kers]

I don't consider it my worst symptom, but it's definitely something that I wish happened less frequently. I am less distressed by these thoughts since discussing them in some depth qith my counselor. I felt like the fact that they happen more when I'm alone meant I'm making it up or something. Like you all say, he suggested that it was a matter of being distracted from them when with other people.

[She Cat]

Intrusive thoughts......I don't have any other thoughts than intrusive ones......If I could buy an on and off switch, I would have had it installed..... like last year!!!!!!!! No not last year, in the last decade....

[EmoxxKid]

Me too, I wouldn't call it my worst symptom, but it is a lot worse when I'm alone, and gets worse and worse the longer I'm by myself. Even though I'm really not social, being around people helps with this. I think it keeps me distracted and concentrating on myself less.




I agree.....the distraction is the best for me.....or the worst..lol

[EmoxxKid]

Intrusive thoughts......I don't have any other thoughts than intrusive ones......If I could buy an on and off switch, I would have had it installed..... like last year!!!!!!!! No not last year, in the last decade....




Dude...I SOOOO understand....
I wish I could just tell me to shut down...but then...there's a whole nother issue..lol

[tankertoy]

this is an interesting poll to me.... i am told i have intrusive thoughts and i guess i do if that means that i have thoughts that i dont want and have a difficult time releaving myself of... but at the same time i guess i am in denial about them... i try to act as if i dont and try desperately to cover them up.. i tend to turn to rage to block all other emotions and my thoughts typically fall along those lines.... i am easily aggitated and at times for no reason i get thoughts of inflicting harm on others..... wow it is wierd talking about this stuff cuz i never talk to anyone about it but with it being online it is so much easier cuz i dont know any of you..... how therapuetic(sp) .... i am curious though if anyone has any techniques to help get through these moments of despair....
carlos

[goingonhope]

Yes, but not the worst of my symptoms.

This is a real tough one for me to decide what's greater or lesser in severity symptoms wise, bc when I'm in the worst of my symptoms, they're all apt to shout hopelessness, horrible frustration and despair, because I haven't felt one bit in control of them, or then hold hope of them ever passing; This though is one chief area, where I've grabbed hold of my mind, over the last yr., and have greatly been able to accept these times, (instrusive thoughts and flashbacks) while better fit, self-controlled and trained to positive thinking. Sometimes, now-a-days, I can actually know it's all going to pass, and still while experiencing it, but only sometimes; This I find is like a most precious reward of my willingness and struggles.

I must add though, that the symptoms take off (following my triggers, then intrusive thoughts), then decline, (following discussion of it) and afterwards places me in a far better position of self-control and peace. When I write about my flashbacks and/or intrusive thoughts, hand-in-hand, with the escalating anxiety that comes with them, I always feel better, if only a little at first. And, then better and better. Or, when I write about, sometimes talk about, whatever it is that is really bothering me, withholding little to nothing, and how I feel about it; It seems to wipe away the force and threat of my symptoms and re-adjust my level of functioning, to somewhat greater than it had been prior.

[EmoxxKid]

You know I am not sure on how to work on them yet....god knows I should be but I am not. I try to watch tv and really just ignore.....that prolly not the best way. I have some of those same thoughts of hurting people ...then I get ones of hurting me for even thinking those things. Sometimes I think I her whispers or something...but it's never of anything I can understand really. In my head I make them out to be my mother or fathers voice for some reason....whoa just saying that makes me feel bad and "crazy"...but...it is what is I guess.

this is an interesting poll to me.... i am told i have intrusive thoughts and i guess i do if that means that i have thoughts that i dont want and have a difficult time releaving myself of... but at the same time i guess i am in denial about them... i try to act as if i dont and try desperately to cover them up.. i tend to turn to rage to block all other emotions and my thoughts typically fall along those lines.... i am easily aggitated and at times for no reason i get thoughts of inflicting harm on others..... wow it is wierd talking about this stuff cuz i never talk to anyone about it but with it being online it is so much easier cuz i dont know any of you..... how therapuetic(sp) .... i am curious though if anyone has any techniques to help get through these moments of despair....
carlos

[Marine0311]

I have a lot of triggers, that put me in that twilight. Combat and EMT work. I'm alone a lot and prefer to be alone, but I can see how Intrusive thoughts would ramp up. Never thought about that hmmm. I have no hobbies or Interest in anything, no friends really other than Marine buddies that are far away. I tried Kayaking once and about freaking drowned. I'm proned to accidents. I guess I dont have the fear of death so I take too many risks.