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Intrusive thoughts

DaveAsperg

I am a gentle person, always avoided and abhorred violence, but have been plagued with thoughts of suicide and was shocked once to have had thoughts of harming someone .

I gather such thoughts are common in most of us, but usually fleeting eg standing at a station wondering whether to jump under a train, driving wondering about a fatal accident.

In autistic thinking it seems these thoughts can become obsessive as part of the over control efforts to banish them. This is the ironic mental process. Just like trying to not think of pink elephants.

The greater the efforts to banish the thoughts, the more likely they are to persist.

any other thoughts of this stuff?

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  • Everyone has dark intrusive thoughts, I read this in an article  in the Guardian so it must be true. I was plagued with these thoughts a couple of years ago and still am to a certain extent. I’ve learnt to shut them down. It’s taken me a couple of years to do this. I have needed help of various medical professionals and recovery college courses. ACT was the best course I took. What I needed to do was not take myself or my thoughts seriously and laugh at them. Ridicule them do they had no power over me.

    Autistics seem to have this condition because they worry and want to be seen as socially correct. This doesn’t seem to plague a NT mind.

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  • Everyone has dark intrusive thoughts, I read this in an article  in the Guardian so it must be true. I was plagued with these thoughts a couple of years ago and still am to a certain extent. I’ve learnt to shut them down. It’s taken me a couple of years to do this. I have needed help of various medical professionals and recovery college courses. ACT was the best course I took. What I needed to do was not take myself or my thoughts seriously and laugh at them. Ridicule them do they had no power over me.

    Autistics seem to have this condition because they worry and want to be seen as socially correct. This doesn’t seem to plague a NT mind.

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