Intrusive thoughts

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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  • Hi. I can see that having your intrusive thoughts validated by the justice system can be most distressing. I also felt my thoughts were being used by actors to validate intrusive thoughts as true, *** my core beliefs and upset me.

    The support I have received in the last has two years has help me, and the act course with its toolkit has given me a foot step into the door. I’ve been lucky to have such support, and I know it’s only there because the trust wants to get it’s butt out of special measures. I can now ridicule the intrusive thoughts with other thoughts, generated by me, that I know aren’t true.

    Sorry I can’t seem to be able to copy and paste a link. Try searching fo Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation trust. There is a search box on the right. Type in recovery college for further details. I wouldn’t be surprised the college was as only for NSFT patients, as before it wasn’t online.

    I hope in time you will be able to accept and move on from what’s happened.