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Tyler
Tyler asked in Social SciencePsychology · 6 years ago

Can Harm OCD Intrusive Thoughts take over and turn you psychotic?

For the longest time I ve been afraid of these thoughts. The thoughts being of causing purposeful harm to people I care for and love.

My panic attacks have just recently reached a bad spike , and the intrusive thoughts keep flooding in with different variations of the same thing. I just wish I could not have these thoughts : I feel extremely sick typing this due to how repulsive and disturbingly psychopathic they are.

I know that I would never act upon the thoughts, but they make me feel like I m just going to randomly lose control and laugh maniacally. One of my compulsive behaviors is coughing, as if I was covering up a crazy laughing fit.

I also check and make sure I m not smiling so it doesn t look like I m enjoying the thoughts.

But bringing it to brass tacks; I loathe these thoughts with every fiber. But I m so afraid that somehow I m going to give into the thoughts, and have my worst nightmares become reality.

I don t want that to happen, and I ve never even intentionally thought about any of this. It just pops in my head and my first reaction was "NO".

So basically, I m just wanting reassurance that I m not going to lose my mind spontaneously and do something I truly don t want to do.

Sorry if this was really long.

Thanks!

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  • John
    6 years ago

    I used to get these a lot before I was diagnosed with ADHD. The psychological side effects of ADHD are anxiety and depression (both of which I have), as well as impulsive behavior, spouts of rage, etc.

    For me, I would get these thoughts because of the mindset that I was in. Being ADHD, my mind would take a small thing that bothered me and spiral it into a sadistic mindset where I was comparable to death, and therefore have the most gut wrenching thoughts of what I could potentially do to people simply because I was smarter than them.

    I would suggest seeing a psychiatrist as these thoughts probably won't make you psychotic per say, but will definitely spiral you into depression and suicidal thoughts due to self disgust. For all you know you could have ADHD like me, or some other psychological disorder that is a CHEMICAL IMBALANCE in your brain. I emphasized that because its not something that can be cured by holistic methods (usually), and getting a medication will turn night to day. :D

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

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  • nop
    6 years ago

    I used to have these thoughts. All I did was pray to jesus to stop these thoughts and they were gone gradually.

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