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<blockquote data-quote="keista" data-source="post: 513301" data-attributes="member: 11965"><p>Yup! And I'm like Step. Every once in a while I start talking out loud to myself. Sometimes even arguing.</p><p></p><p><strong>Intrusive thoughts:</strong> These are thoughts that pop into your head out of nowhere and you start obsessing about them. </p><p></p><p>Examples: I was going to the gas station convenience store to get a pack if cigs. Left son in car because it was a direct line of sight. As I"m crossing gas pumps an intrusive thought pops into my head - what if a red corvette comes zooming through and runs me over right in front of my son? The thought is so real and so vivid it was almost like seeing it happen. By the time I finish walking the ten feet into the store I'm in tears.</p><p></p><p>DD1, trying to get to sleep, gets a thought about the house catching fire. She can't figure out how to get out of the house and worse, can't find her favorite stuffed toy. Of course all this thinking and devastation puts her in tears and she comes to me and it takes me about an hour to console her and find out why she is so upset.</p><p></p><p>These thoughts do not have to be imagined "fantasy" type thoughts like above. It could be a sudden memory of something that happened that day, or years ago, generally an unpleasant memory and you thought you had processed it, but you can't get it out of your head. It's almost like PTSD but the incident is not some sort of huge traumatic event - is a simple everyday event. Like when you say something stupid and embarrass yourself. Yeah, OK if it happened that day, it makes sense that you are still processing it. But if it happened 10 years ago? And in the grand scheme of things it's truly inconsequential? = Intrusive thought.</p><p></p><p>For both me and DD1 the intrusive thoughts generally come at night and make it very difficult to fall asleep, but they can come at any time of day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="keista, post: 513301, member: 11965"] Yup! And I'm like Step. Every once in a while I start talking out loud to myself. Sometimes even arguing. [B]Intrusive thoughts:[/B] These are thoughts that pop into your head out of nowhere and you start obsessing about them. Examples: I was going to the gas station convenience store to get a pack if cigs. Left son in car because it was a direct line of sight. As I"m crossing gas pumps an intrusive thought pops into my head - what if a red corvette comes zooming through and runs me over right in front of my son? The thought is so real and so vivid it was almost like seeing it happen. By the time I finish walking the ten feet into the store I'm in tears. DD1, trying to get to sleep, gets a thought about the house catching fire. She can't figure out how to get out of the house and worse, can't find her favorite stuffed toy. Of course all this thinking and devastation puts her in tears and she comes to me and it takes me about an hour to console her and find out why she is so upset. These thoughts do not have to be imagined "fantasy" type thoughts like above. It could be a sudden memory of something that happened that day, or years ago, generally an unpleasant memory and you thought you had processed it, but you can't get it out of your head. It's almost like PTSD but the incident is not some sort of huge traumatic event - is a simple everyday event. Like when you say something stupid and embarrass yourself. Yeah, OK if it happened that day, it makes sense that you are still processing it. But if it happened 10 years ago? And in the grand scheme of things it's truly inconsequential? = Intrusive thought. For both me and DD1 the intrusive thoughts generally come at night and make it very difficult to fall asleep, but they can come at any time of day. [/QUOTE]
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