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Intrusive thoughts and hyper awareness

Increasing serotonin generally decreases sex drive, hence why SSRIs are famous for causing sexual dysfunction.
 
Not sure if this is intrusive thoughts but ever since my sister recently said she had bunked off school when she was a teenager, I've been feeling a bit depressed, because I never did bunk off school and I feel like the only one who didn't. My sister was quite a dork at school like me, but still somehow managed to bunk off (which means going off the school premises during classes). I think it was because she'd had a best friend who was a bad influence on her.
I know it was a long time ago now but it still reminds me how much of a social failure I was.
 
Misty Avich said:
Not sure if this is intrusive thoughts but ever since my sister recently said she had bunked off school when she was a teenager, I've been feeling a bit depressed, because I never did bunk off school and I feel like the only one who didn't. My sister was quite a dork at school like me, but still somehow managed to bunk off (which means going off the school premises during classes). I think it was because she'd had a best friend who was a bad influence on her.
I know it was a long time ago now but it still reminds me how much of a social failure I was.
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This sounds like rumination. Still difficult, but different than intrusive thoughts.

Intrusive thoughts are typically of a violent, sexual, or religiously blasphemous nature.
 
lovely_darlingprettybaby said:
It is ok, intrusive thoughts I have experienced it, some wrong thought at the wrong moment which sometimes ends up embarrassing too
One of my biggest issues for me this is in my ocd is constant ruminations
Like about kids, attraction to married men or attraction to women
I always know I am not attracted to the person. Or I knew I was not gay when I was young I went through like a few months of doubt because I did not understand the rumination or intrusive thought of attraction to women but it is just ocd.
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Ruminations and intrusive thoughts go in an unholy tandem, huh?
 
lovely_darlingprettybaby said:
It is ok, intrusive thoughts I have experienced it, some wrong thought at the wrong moment which sometimes ends up embarrassing too
One of my biggest issues for me this is in my ocd is constant ruminations
Like about kids, attraction to married men or attraction to women
I always know I am not attracted to the person. Or I knew I was not gay when I was young I went through like a few months of doubt because I did not understand the rumination or intrusive thought of attraction to women but it is just ocd.
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I found a thing! Can You Stop Ruminating Intrusive Thoughts? THANK YOU JESUS!
 
lovely_darlingprettybaby said:
It is ok, intrusive thoughts I have experienced it, some wrong thought at the wrong moment which sometimes ends up embarrassing too
One of my biggest issues for me this is in my ocd is constant ruminations
Like about kids, attraction to married men or attraction to women
I always know I am not attracted to the person. Or I knew I was not gay when I was young I went through like a few months of doubt because I did not understand the rumination or intrusive thought of attraction to women but it is just ocd.
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Has it ever caused you to develop a phobia?
 
Rodafina said:
@Misty Avich... this sounds like what you described.
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I do actually like ruminating, most of the time. I do spend a lot of time trying to make sense of my past. I think it's so easy for me to remember years gone by because I have such a good autobiographical memory, which I call a gift. I enjoy stepping into the past and reliving some of my favourite moments, and also reliving my worst moments too because it makes me glad that I'm not living through that any more. How the past all connects just fascinates me. The only problem that comes with this amazing ability is I can't always help ruminating on the negative things and beating myself up about what I should and shouldn't have done at the time. It's like the butterfly effect, where if something didn't happen in the past then maybe I might be different to who I am now.

I think I lived too much in the moment when I was younger, like under 15. I didn't stop and look around or appreciate things. I had very little concept of time. I was very spontaneous, yet at the same time I didn't react to things properly. Like when I got bullied at school when I was 11, I didn't let it bother me at the time, I tried ignoring it and moved on. Some may say that's an excellent thing to do, but really what was happening was it kind of built up inside me then started leaking out once I left school, causing my social anxieties around strangers and teenagers, and erupting into fits of rage from self-loathing and knowing how weak and pathetic I am. While I have passed that stage and can deal with emotions with more control, I still feel anxious or depressed whenever I'm targeted in public by strangers. I get the urge to punch them, but my conscience stops me of course. So instead I just back down and feel the weak, pathetic one.
 
Thank you brain :imp:... you've given me three new very disturbing intrusive thoughts. Thanks so much (sarcasm).

- Sticking knives into the toaster every morning
- Punching myself very hard in the nose (I can almost feel it when I have this thought)
- Pouring boiling water from the kettle on my dog (the worst one in awhile)
 
New mantra: Nothing I want, so nothing I need to fear.

Because I know I ain't into that stuff, thus I need not fear or worry about.
 
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