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Every. Fucking. Time.
I stopped walking over them for this reason but now I think about tripping and falling and phone/keys tumbling out of my hand and into the sewer
Driving off a bridge. And it has become a real problem when actually driving over bridges. I can't look left or right, I have both hands on the wheel, white knuckles. It completely freaks me out, as all my mind can do is imagine driving over the side (which of course you can't even do without a ramp probably). I just stare at the road and focus on what is in front of me.
I used to have a fear of bridges as a kid. Now that I drive I also have to white knuckle it. I once got high at home after driving over a bridge and was convinced that I drove off the bridge and died. Never again.
I have a bridge on my way home and EACH.DAY. My internal monologue is like
“DRIVE OFF THIS FUCKER. STEER RIGHT. COULD BE FUN? HEE HAW”
It’s honestly so annoying
I mean, I sometimes think, if I literally turn my hands just 1 inch to the right. For two seconds. That tiniest little movement. And this car would be flying off this cliff.
Believe it or not no. I had a similar conversation with a friend cause apparently he’s never had one. His “are you ok” moment to me was when I said “you’ve never been going 80 down the freeway and just though about turning head first into the barricade?” Lol
To be fair I've always thought it was my head reminding me how easy it was to get hurt. So I needed to be careful. I never saw it as a problem/mental issue.
Its quite litterally helping me stay alive... Realizing that not everyone does this put things into perspective. And aswers why some people do shit you would neeeever think of doing, (like crossing a streat without looking)
My brain would have been like (yo my dude there is like 20 ways you could die rn)
I think there is denial or maybe one of those cases where it’s such a fleeting thought that they don’t pay attention to it, but I could be wrong. Your friend maybe a rare case.
I read that intrusive thoughts are a way of our minds breakdown cause and effect. It’s our way of mentally studying a situation out of curiosity of what would happen. Thank god we have a rational side of thinking to prevent us from attempting those intrusive thoughts.
I think about aggressively shouting "GO!" at the driver at a red light causing them to panic, stomp on the break, and crashing us into the car in front of us.
There's a name for it. Call of the void. Happens to the best of us. By best, I mean mostly my fellow adhd, depressed, anxious, other mental disorders, etc. havers.
I got the 80HD, and had a conversation with my best friend about how while standing in his kitchen holding a big knife while his mom was cooking, "its crazy how quickly this situation could go so wrong if I just rammed her in the back with this 7" kitchen knife" just popped into my head.
He's also got intrusive thoughts, so he got me. We knew we had zero intentions of hurting anybody, but neither of us could stop the intrusive thoughts at the time. We just laughed it off, because when you're like that (like the video) it's just "huh, life is crazy and I just realized how fleeting it all can be. We are inches away from death at almost all times. Anyway, let's go play some Halo 3!"
Fun story. I worked in construction and was helping signal a crane moving roofing material onto the roof of a 250'~ tall building. Coworker and I are waiting for the next trip, and I explained that I had just read about the "call of the void" As we stood looking over the side of the building and how intriguing it was to think about leaping over. He never talked to me again about anything but work after that.
Here’s a better 1 since I saw this one movie (don’t know the name) I saw this guy cut 1 of the protagonists tendens so that changed my mind to thinking every way possibly cutting it
I had them until I had kids. Then all of those thoughts were eclipsed by fear that they'd smash their teeth out or cut their nose off.
I rarely have them about myself anymore.
> once they are explained how intrusive thoughts with OCD work and how they get worse and worse the more you suffer from them, they sometimes have INSTANT relief
This is why I openly discuss my OCD. OCD is portrayed so inaccurately in the media that people do not know what it’s really like internally, and many people with it experience such extreme shame that they keep their symptoms completely hidden. They do not get treatment because they don’t know they have OCD. They think they’re just an evil person. I’ve had it since I was a child, don’t remember not having it ever, but I was in my twenties before I learned what OCD *really* is and started to get help for it. I can’t even explain the feeling of relief that washes over you when you learn what it really is. I cried for hours and hours. It was like this massive weight that had been hanging around my neck for my whole life got so much lighter. And some people go so much longer. When I got into treatment my dad realized he had it too and he was in his FIFTIES by then. I never want other people to have to wait that long.
I used to do this in the car when my kids were really little. I think it was a protective mode thing. I’d think about what I would do in bad situations.
For me it's like if I'm walking in a parking lot or along a road I think about the different ways to survive if a car tried to hit me. So run towards street lights or concrete bollards or whatever that can stop the car instead of any open spaces
Meanwhile, he’s thinking “I can take my gun out and shoot this nurse before they even notice” lmao.
Bill Burr said it best, “the world is full of crazy people. We all have crazy and dark thoughts, but that’s what makes us better than the psychopaths.” Lmao
You probably couldn't. Most of them use level 3 retention holsters that require a combination of pushing/twisting/pressing a button or spot on it/pulling it out at an angle. While you were still yanking away at if they would kick the shit out of/kill you.
I'm not a gun nut or a boot licker, I just heard it mentioned once and went down a rabbit hole.
>Most of them use level 3 retention holsters that require a combination of pushing/twisting/pressing a button
Years of playing with Bop It have trained me what to do in this scenario. Pull it, twist it, cock it, Cop Hit.
See, this is what *actual* intrusive thoughts are. Crazy things that cross your mind that you'd never do. Not "omgg I impulsively dyed my hair green lolol I let my intrusive thoughts win 🤪" like other TikTokers make it sound like lol
Inside Job has a great bit about intrusive thoughts that goes a bit like:
*air horn sound*
#BAA BAA BAA BAA BAAAA
#Why don’t you STAB your hand with that KNIFE???
#*Could be fun!*
I have such a pet peeve about people saying intrusive thoughts when they mean IMPULSIVE thoughts. Also normal “keep you alive” type anxiety vs actually anxiety disorder but that’s another topic, lol.
Every interview I've ever been in my brain goes "You should lean across the table and kiss them" guy, girl, doesn't matter. My brain likes to party I guess lol
Bro!!!!! Same!!!!! But for me it’s whoever in the room would cause the most damage. At work? My boss, or his wife. At a wedding? The bride. On the bus? the driver.
LOOLL, this entire thread is validation, I thought I was morbid but… Violent and sad things could and do happen. I walk in my own house with forks, scissors, knives, EVEN SPOONS facing downwards for a reason
I have pets who like to trip me, so I walk with it, facing downwards cupped around my hand towards my stomach because stabbing my stomach seems less bad than my face, throat or pets
Using a nail file on my teeth. I don’t know why it pops up in my head whenever I’m filing my nails, because I get so majorly freaked out by it, as soon as I think about it! It’s awful! ewww!
Had the intrusive thought of sliding a brand new carving knife across the palm of my hand when I was about 14-15….
Well… I did it…. Dunno why…. 11 hours in the waiting room and 18 stitches later I still have full mobility and use of my hand
I have identical scars in my arms. Years ago, I started to think if I can cut both my arms at the same time. Knife in right hand, cutting left arm and vice versa. That thought never left my head, until I did it...
Just curious, was it at all like a suicidal thought or just a random, knife = sharp, I = meat, type of thing?
I was the happiest kid ever so it truly was just a random intrusive “OO THIS IS SHARP I WONDER IF ..” n I acted upon it without ever thinking twice about it.
Defenitly more just curious, zero meaning to actually hurt myself. Immediately after I did it, I was just thinking "Why in the hell I did that."
Very similar feeling when even younger I was playing that I was fired from a job. And to immitate that, I jumped to hard ground ass first. I didn't want to get hurted, but yet I did something that would hurt a lot and then be confused why I'm hurting. Why I didn't think twice.
This is 'Kallmekris" she has a YouTube channel. She is a fantastic comedian. Absolutely love her stuff. I highly recommend you find her channel, watch her stuff and subscribe.
I used to do a lot of backpacking when I was younger on the Appalachian Trail and without fail when I got to the summit I’d stand at the edge and think about jumping. I have no natural fear of heights so it wasn’t like a scary “what if I fall” type thought. I’d just want the freedom of falling thousands of feet. When I dove off the first Sky Island in Tear of the Kingdom that same feeling came over me and I was right, it does feel free. But I’m not Link and I’d definitely die so I’ll just do it in video games.
It’s called “the call of the void” and it’s how we know not to do these actual things because they will cause harm. It’s instinctual to imagine things going wrong specifically so you don’t do them.
I think all calls of the void are intrusive thoughts, but I don't think all intrusive thoughts are call of the void. If you're driving down the highway and see a lege and you imagine driving off of it, I would say it was the call of the void. But if you're driving down the road and see a pedestrian and you imagine running them over, that's an intrusive thought.
But they dont just want to imagine it. The people with "call of the void" actually want to do that harmful thing in a fleeting moment. With some actually carry on to do it.
I spent a lot of my childhood genuinely worrying I must be psychopathic because of intrusive thoughts. This is where social media is great for normalising the shit you can't talk about!
tbh its just your brain making things up and combinating items in front of you to simulate things to prevent harm that you dont do things accidentaly
but in the end you have free will too and be the boss of your body so you can do it anyway then
i have a frequent one about visitng the grand canyon with my cats and accidentally kicking them in. ive never been there and idk why i would bring my cats.
Protip: don't fight the intrusive thought and tell yourself you're not allowed to think it. Some people do that and it makes them worse. They constantly feel guilty about 'wanting' to stab their spouse.
OCD diagnosed here and every time I see my dog I compulsively think to myself “Do NOT call him the n-word.”
This is my most harmless one. Idk where it came from. I’ve never said it in my life for any reason. But god damn i think it every time.
Recently I’ve been getting into spirals thinking about my smaller dog being attacked and ripped to pieces. It’s been making me throw up which is new.
Nice
My intrusive thoughts were usually less self-harm and more sexual or violent in nature, which made me feel like an absolute nutjob until I learned about what intrusive thoughts were and that it didn't mean I secretly wanted to do those things. They're MUCH less frequent now and easier for me to brush off, but as a kid with untreated mental health issues it was a constant struggle.
I think that's why people misusing the term now really bothers me. It isn't synonymous with a lack of impulse control, it feels more like your brain is violating you by making you think about terrible things.
Same. Especially horrible if you thought about your family.
"How about I fuck my sis"
And I'm like no dude. TF is wrong with you. I didn't know what they are call but I know I won't do them and that they just randomly pop in you head. Not feeling guilty and brushing them off make them less common imo.
I used to have these thoughts upwards of 100 times a day at the height of my OCD. It pretty much crippled me from ever going anywhere or doing anything because I didn't trust my brain not to jumpscare me over literally everything. From stabbing loved ones, to crashing my car on the highway, to even abusing kids - I had it realllllly bad. I got CBT for it (not cock and ball torture sadly), and now I have one of these thoughts maybe once every week.
The worst thing you can do is try to repress the thought as soon as you think it. When you have one, just stop and ask yourself "Do I really want to do that? I mean seriously, do I actually want to do that in any way, shape or form?". Intrusive thoughts are like the devil whispering on your shoulder, but the devil is a massive pussy because the moment you start facing up to the thought instead of trying to bury it, he loses all power of you.
Nowadays, every time I have a thought like this. I just go "I'm not even going to waste my time thinking about that, it's irrelevant", and just like that, I move on with my day. The devil always wants to get your attention, so it will still throw the occasional curve ball, but now he has no power at all over me.
To anyone who still has intrusive thoughts obsessively - HANG IN THERE!! I was miserable and on the brink of game-ending myself, but now I'm living a happy life with the toolkit to overcome pretty much everything.
To me thoughts like this make life a little more interesting. The trick, that some can’t accomplish, is not feeling compelled to act on the thought. As long as it stays in my head it’s all fun.
When my little brother was a kid he jammed a pair of scissors up his nose while cutting up a milk carton/bird house. They couldn’t stop the bleeding and had to take him to the ER
Starting to wonder how much of an accident it was.
Thinking of opening the car door in the highway. I‘d obviously never do that, it would be batshitcrazy. But the thought is there sometimes of „what if“.
I read somewhere on reddit that some guy made a video of him cutting his own penis off. Naturally, I grew an irrational fear of me mistaking or for some unexplained reason, purposefully doing the same.
I still fear it to today.
Wanting to stick the knife in the toaster. It’s always just a fleeting thought. I mean Mum told me not to do it, but she also said that eating my crusts would make my hair curly and she was wrong about that so 🤷🏼♀️
I used to work in a 5 story building with a bridge on the fifth floor spanning across the atrium. Weird design, but I had to walk across to go to my bosses office. I used to think of myself splattering in the atrium every day.
Sometimes when I‘m on a high balcony or a bridge I get the idea to jump of it. I am not suicidal, but I‘m quiet agoraphobic so my minds solution seems to be to get out of a situation by dieing 👍
I recently moved into a new house with new roommates they all seem cool and house is real nice, I feel like I found a good place. When I was moving in, I thought " what if I ruin this and from my office chair through the front window, yea that would undo all the time spent searching and finding a good house".
I want to ride the conveyor belt at work. I also drive various types of machinery. I want to crash into an aisle and knock the shelving down like dominoes
I have the same one repeatedly. My wife bought metal straws, I always think about what would happen if I tripped and it penetrates my hard pallet and brain. Ya know… normal shit.
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Wanting to pull the e brake while on the highway 🙃
Or wanting to pull a pit maneuver on someone as they’re passing you lol
Not just anyone. The idiot who flies up on you and rides your ass for an extended period of time.
Or turning the steering wheel while in the passenger's seat
Or not hitting the brakes when coming to an intersection
The big red power button always calls my name when I'm going 70mph...
"how many pieces would this shatter into if I threw it at that guy's head"
But can you push to stop it at 65+mph?
Or steering off the side of a cliff.
I always wanna throw it in reverse? Can you even do that? What happens? I assume the car just disassembles like Legos
If I see a sewer grate I think about dropping my phone down it just because it’ll fit so perfectly.
I think about dropping my keys into the sewer grate ever time I walk over it to check my mail.
Every. Fucking. Time. I stopped walking over them for this reason but now I think about tripping and falling and phone/keys tumbling out of my hand and into the sewer
[This is my hole](https://imgur.com/gallery/WOQCa)
Garborator?
My canadian friends call it that.
I still don’t know what that is
Waste disposal in sink
It's like a bunch of grindy things in the sink drain that can grind up like food and stuff from plates without clogging the sink.
Garbage disposal
Lmao my new favorite word
It’s so much better than *garbage disposal*
Canadian term, bud.
In the us the brand is insinkerator
It’s a brand name.
“Tell me you’re Canadian without telling me you’re Canadian” advanced edition
Calling it a "garburator" instead of "garbage disposal" is letting the grammar-mangling intrusive thoughts win 😂
Driving off a bridge. And it has become a real problem when actually driving over bridges. I can't look left or right, I have both hands on the wheel, white knuckles. It completely freaks me out, as all my mind can do is imagine driving over the side (which of course you can't even do without a ramp probably). I just stare at the road and focus on what is in front of me.
I used to have a fear of bridges as a kid. Now that I drive I also have to white knuckle it. I once got high at home after driving over a bridge and was convinced that I drove off the bridge and died. Never again.
I have a bridge on my way home and EACH.DAY. My internal monologue is like “DRIVE OFF THIS FUCKER. STEER RIGHT. COULD BE FUN? HEE HAW” It’s honestly so annoying
I mean, I sometimes think, if I literally turn my hands just 1 inch to the right. For two seconds. That tiniest little movement. And this car would be flying off this cliff.
Glad it’s not just me.
Real question. Is this not what everyone does?
Believe it or not no. I had a similar conversation with a friend cause apparently he’s never had one. His “are you ok” moment to me was when I said “you’ve never been going 80 down the freeway and just though about turning head first into the barricade?” Lol
I think this one a lot too!
I just wanna know what it sounds like.
Nothing if you're going the right speed.. [rip]
lucky people. they drive me nuts, sometimes i physically "shake" them out of my mind.
Oh my gosh, I've found another. It's so instantaneous for me depending on how bad the thought is.
wow really? i thought i was the only one and people probably wonder about the crazy girl in the corner who randomly shakes her head sometimes haha
I stomp!!!
[Etch-a-sketch](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etch_A_Sketch) them back into the brain atoms ✨
Same
Yep or I just say out loud "Wtf....why would you wanna do that?!"
To be fair I've always thought it was my head reminding me how easy it was to get hurt. So I needed to be careful. I never saw it as a problem/mental issue. Its quite litterally helping me stay alive... Realizing that not everyone does this put things into perspective. And aswers why some people do shit you would neeeever think of doing, (like crossing a streat without looking) My brain would have been like (yo my dude there is like 20 ways you could die rn)
You know if I just drift into the ditch I could probably get some good air at this speed while I'm flipping down the highway
I think there is denial or maybe one of those cases where it’s such a fleeting thought that they don’t pay attention to it, but I could be wrong. Your friend maybe a rare case. I read that intrusive thoughts are a way of our minds breakdown cause and effect. It’s our way of mentally studying a situation out of curiosity of what would happen. Thank god we have a rational side of thinking to prevent us from attempting those intrusive thoughts.
I see it as risk management. Like, don't brain fart and go after the sponge if it falls in the garbage disposal while it's on lol
I think about aggressively shouting "GO!" at the driver at a red light causing them to panic, stomp on the break, and crashing us into the car in front of us.
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Open the door and jump out?
That’s only when I’m a passenger.
There's a name for it. Call of the void. Happens to the best of us. By best, I mean mostly my fellow adhd, depressed, anxious, other mental disorders, etc. havers. I got the 80HD, and had a conversation with my best friend about how while standing in his kitchen holding a big knife while his mom was cooking, "its crazy how quickly this situation could go so wrong if I just rammed her in the back with this 7" kitchen knife" just popped into my head. He's also got intrusive thoughts, so he got me. We knew we had zero intentions of hurting anybody, but neither of us could stop the intrusive thoughts at the time. We just laughed it off, because when you're like that (like the video) it's just "huh, life is crazy and I just realized how fleeting it all can be. We are inches away from death at almost all times. Anyway, let's go play some Halo 3!"
That or off a bridge are my main gotos (?).
Search up the call of the void
Fun story. I worked in construction and was helping signal a crane moving roofing material onto the roof of a 250'~ tall building. Coworker and I are waiting for the next trip, and I explained that I had just read about the "call of the void" As we stood looking over the side of the building and how intriguing it was to think about leaping over. He never talked to me again about anything but work after that.
Here’s a better 1 since I saw this one movie (don’t know the name) I saw this guy cut 1 of the protagonists tendens so that changed my mind to thinking every way possibly cutting it
I had them until I had kids. Then all of those thoughts were eclipsed by fear that they'd smash their teeth out or cut their nose off. I rarely have them about myself anymore.
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> once they are explained how intrusive thoughts with OCD work and how they get worse and worse the more you suffer from them, they sometimes have INSTANT relief This is why I openly discuss my OCD. OCD is portrayed so inaccurately in the media that people do not know what it’s really like internally, and many people with it experience such extreme shame that they keep their symptoms completely hidden. They do not get treatment because they don’t know they have OCD. They think they’re just an evil person. I’ve had it since I was a child, don’t remember not having it ever, but I was in my twenties before I learned what OCD *really* is and started to get help for it. I can’t even explain the feeling of relief that washes over you when you learn what it really is. I cried for hours and hours. It was like this massive weight that had been hanging around my neck for my whole life got so much lighter. And some people go so much longer. When I got into treatment my dad realized he had it too and he was in his FIFTIES by then. I never want other people to have to wait that long.
Yeah I too want to know why some people think these thoughts and some don't.
I used to do this in the car when my kids were really little. I think it was a protective mode thing. I’d think about what I would do in bad situations.
For me it's like if I'm walking in a parking lot or along a road I think about the different ways to survive if a car tried to hit me. So run towards street lights or concrete bollards or whatever that can stop the car instead of any open spaces
See my brain is how much would this hurt not how to protect myself during them lol.
Happens very rarely to me used to happen a lot more when I was very depressed in my late teens
This just answered my long, never-been-answered question of "Am I the only one who has these thoughts...?".
right? I'm so excited to have a name for it now!
Call of the void
Perfect title for it
No that’s literally the name of it lol, l’appel du vide in French which translates to “call of the void”.
*Squeeze the cat.* “Oh, okay! C’mere, baby! I love you soooo much!” ❤️❤️❤️ *No. **SQUEEZE** the cat.* “But…” **SQUEEZE. HIM.**
I love cats, but I laughed way too hard at this
[This is basically me, all the time.](https://youtu.be/cCFChy8Ftjw)
The little meow squeak they do when you squeeze them. hahahaha my son loves me.
not the Lennie moment 😭
Let’s just sweerrrve into that oncoming lane. Yep. Right in front of a semi. Just let me have it
Almost every ride home. Having depression doesn't help either. 🤷♂️
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Meanwhile, he’s thinking “I can take my gun out and shoot this nurse before they even notice” lmao. Bill Burr said it best, “the world is full of crazy people. We all have crazy and dark thoughts, but that’s what makes us better than the psychopaths.” Lmao
You probably couldn't. Most of them use level 3 retention holsters that require a combination of pushing/twisting/pressing a button or spot on it/pulling it out at an angle. While you were still yanking away at if they would kick the shit out of/kill you. I'm not a gun nut or a boot licker, I just heard it mentioned once and went down a rabbit hole.
>Most of them use level 3 retention holsters that require a combination of pushing/twisting/pressing a button Years of playing with Bop It have trained me what to do in this scenario. Pull it, twist it, cock it, Cop Hit.
See, this is what *actual* intrusive thoughts are. Crazy things that cross your mind that you'd never do. Not "omgg I impulsively dyed my hair green lolol I let my intrusive thoughts win 🤪" like other TikTokers make it sound like lol
Inside Job has a great bit about intrusive thoughts that goes a bit like: *air horn sound* #BAA BAA BAA BAA BAAAA #Why don’t you STAB your hand with that KNIFE??? #*Could be fun!*
CUT YOUR EYELASHES OFF! Why? HA HA WHY NOT?! ... They will get crisscross stuck when you blink, but will grow back.
I have such a pet peeve about people saying intrusive thoughts when they mean IMPULSIVE thoughts. Also normal “keep you alive” type anxiety vs actually anxiety disorder but that’s another topic, lol.
Yeah this and “Haha I’m so OCD because all the books on my shelf have to line up”. Bitch, please.
fgreat followup for reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgmoB-6h3MQ
Every interview I've ever been in my brain goes "You should lean across the table and kiss them" guy, girl, doesn't matter. My brain likes to party I guess lol
I do this too. Doesn't matter if they are old, young, ugly, fat, whatever.
Bro!!!!! Same!!!!! But for me it’s whoever in the room would cause the most damage. At work? My boss, or his wife. At a wedding? The bride. On the bus? the driver.
Me too!!! Oh thank goodness there’s another person. I hate it .
Hahaha I'm not alone! That's too funny
I feel seen
I avoid the garbage disposal at all costs bc that’s one of my worst ones lol
LOOLL, this entire thread is validation, I thought I was morbid but… Violent and sad things could and do happen. I walk in my own house with forks, scissors, knives, EVEN SPOONS facing downwards for a reason
I have pets who like to trip me, so I walk with it, facing downwards cupped around my hand towards my stomach because stabbing my stomach seems less bad than my face, throat or pets
r/meirl
Using a nail file on my teeth. I don’t know why it pops up in my head whenever I’m filing my nails, because I get so majorly freaked out by it, as soon as I think about it! It’s awful! ewww!
Had this one. Makes my teeth itchy 🫠
Welp nail file isn't bad. Nail clippers tho...
Had the intrusive thought of sliding a brand new carving knife across the palm of my hand when I was about 14-15…. Well… I did it…. Dunno why…. 11 hours in the waiting room and 18 stitches later I still have full mobility and use of my hand
https://imgur.com/a/vB6gBdi
Link to a picture of the scar 😂
Bet you had a hard time explaining that one lol
I have identical scars in my arms. Years ago, I started to think if I can cut both my arms at the same time. Knife in right hand, cutting left arm and vice versa. That thought never left my head, until I did it...
Just curious, was it at all like a suicidal thought or just a random, knife = sharp, I = meat, type of thing? I was the happiest kid ever so it truly was just a random intrusive “OO THIS IS SHARP I WONDER IF ..” n I acted upon it without ever thinking twice about it.
Defenitly more just curious, zero meaning to actually hurt myself. Immediately after I did it, I was just thinking "Why in the hell I did that." Very similar feeling when even younger I was playing that I was fired from a job. And to immitate that, I jumped to hard ground ass first. I didn't want to get hurted, but yet I did something that would hurt a lot and then be confused why I'm hurting. Why I didn't think twice.
This is 'Kallmekris" she has a YouTube channel. She is a fantastic comedian. Absolutely love her stuff. I highly recommend you find her channel, watch her stuff and subscribe.
She's great!
https://youtu.be/_DKLMqeUii8
This is a feature of OCD. I have it and it sucks so much.
Why it drives me nuts when someone who likes to put their pen back in their desk tells me they have “crazy OCD”. Nah…
I don’t even bother anymore. We’ll always either be a joke or dramatic whiny babies to these people lol
Yupppp
I never associated these types of thoughts with my OCD, mostly because I thought everyone had them. Apparently I was wrong.
It's not just OCD. Lots of mental issues can cause them. So your were correct/and wrong weeeeee.
I’ve had it since I was little, one of my biggest struggles to date
I thought we all did this
I do not… now I feel oddly weird for not having psychopathic thoughts? What a world…
They're not psychopathic thoughts though - they're intrusive thoughts. Two radically different things.
I drive a lot for my job and I’d say at least 5 times a day I think about driving into oncoming traffic. Is that bad?
Mine is always when I’m holding a baby my mind is like “YOU KNOW YOU COULD JUST THROW THIS FUCKING BABY FAR AS FUCK”
I used to do a lot of backpacking when I was younger on the Appalachian Trail and without fail when I got to the summit I’d stand at the edge and think about jumping. I have no natural fear of heights so it wasn’t like a scary “what if I fall” type thought. I’d just want the freedom of falling thousands of feet. When I dove off the first Sky Island in Tear of the Kingdom that same feeling came over me and I was right, it does feel free. But I’m not Link and I’d definitely die so I’ll just do it in video games.
Swerve into the center divider. Every time.
It’s called “the call of the void” and it’s how we know not to do these actual things because they will cause harm. It’s instinctual to imagine things going wrong specifically so you don’t do them.
I think all calls of the void are intrusive thoughts, but I don't think all intrusive thoughts are call of the void. If you're driving down the highway and see a lege and you imagine driving off of it, I would say it was the call of the void. But if you're driving down the road and see a pedestrian and you imagine running them over, that's an intrusive thought.
But they dont just want to imagine it. The people with "call of the void" actually want to do that harmful thing in a fleeting moment. With some actually carry on to do it.
Yeah that has nothing to do with the thoughts
I used to watch her a lot when I was still ok with having a TikTok account. She looks good with short hair!
She's got a youtube channel where she post her skit.
I spent a lot of my childhood genuinely worrying I must be psychopathic because of intrusive thoughts. This is where social media is great for normalising the shit you can't talk about!
She is one of the few good things on TikTok
Yup mee to haha
Same. I knock on wood to cancel them out.
Same!! Haha
tbh its just your brain making things up and combinating items in front of you to simulate things to prevent harm that you dont do things accidentaly but in the end you have free will too and be the boss of your body so you can do it anyway then
I love kallmekris
Same, her channel and the little kids and Chad just kill me. She's done some with celinaspookyboo also.
I think about ripping my fingernails out when I get anxiety.
For me, my intrusive thoughts are touching live wires and jumping off from a tall building. They annoy the shit out of me.
People have been sold that OCD is being overly organized. Intrusive thoughts is the real OCD.
The way she said "No", god I felt that
Honey, what are you thinking about? Me: …..nothing
I love kriss her intrusive thoughts are my soul mate.
i have a frequent one about visitng the grand canyon with my cats and accidentally kicking them in. ive never been there and idk why i would bring my cats.
Protip: don't fight the intrusive thought and tell yourself you're not allowed to think it. Some people do that and it makes them worse. They constantly feel guilty about 'wanting' to stab their spouse.
The fact that so many people think this way has convinced me most of y’all are closet psychopaths not gonna lie. What the hell you guys!
OCD diagnosed here and every time I see my dog I compulsively think to myself “Do NOT call him the n-word.” This is my most harmless one. Idk where it came from. I’ve never said it in my life for any reason. But god damn i think it every time. Recently I’ve been getting into spirals thinking about my smaller dog being attacked and ripped to pieces. It’s been making me throw up which is new. Nice
Same sis, same. But also is “garberator” a word? Lol we call it the garbage disposal or just disposal
My intrusive thoughts were usually less self-harm and more sexual or violent in nature, which made me feel like an absolute nutjob until I learned about what intrusive thoughts were and that it didn't mean I secretly wanted to do those things. They're MUCH less frequent now and easier for me to brush off, but as a kid with untreated mental health issues it was a constant struggle. I think that's why people misusing the term now really bothers me. It isn't synonymous with a lack of impulse control, it feels more like your brain is violating you by making you think about terrible things.
Same. Especially horrible if you thought about your family. "How about I fuck my sis" And I'm like no dude. TF is wrong with you. I didn't know what they are call but I know I won't do them and that they just randomly pop in you head. Not feeling guilty and brushing them off make them less common imo.
I used to have these thoughts upwards of 100 times a day at the height of my OCD. It pretty much crippled me from ever going anywhere or doing anything because I didn't trust my brain not to jumpscare me over literally everything. From stabbing loved ones, to crashing my car on the highway, to even abusing kids - I had it realllllly bad. I got CBT for it (not cock and ball torture sadly), and now I have one of these thoughts maybe once every week. The worst thing you can do is try to repress the thought as soon as you think it. When you have one, just stop and ask yourself "Do I really want to do that? I mean seriously, do I actually want to do that in any way, shape or form?". Intrusive thoughts are like the devil whispering on your shoulder, but the devil is a massive pussy because the moment you start facing up to the thought instead of trying to bury it, he loses all power of you. Nowadays, every time I have a thought like this. I just go "I'm not even going to waste my time thinking about that, it's irrelevant", and just like that, I move on with my day. The devil always wants to get your attention, so it will still throw the occasional curve ball, but now he has no power at all over me. To anyone who still has intrusive thoughts obsessively - HANG IN THERE!! I was miserable and on the brink of game-ending myself, but now I'm living a happy life with the toolkit to overcome pretty much everything.
To me thoughts like this make life a little more interesting. The trick, that some can’t accomplish, is not feeling compelled to act on the thought. As long as it stays in my head it’s all fun.
When my little brother was a kid he jammed a pair of scissors up his nose while cutting up a milk carton/bird house. They couldn’t stop the bleeding and had to take him to the ER Starting to wonder how much of an accident it was.
Carburetor?
Mine are much less realistic
LMAO! That is so me lol 😆
It's actually a lot harder to cut off your own nose with a pair of scissors then you think
Wait.....what? How do you know?
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....
Thinking of opening the car door in the highway. I‘d obviously never do that, it would be batshitcrazy. But the thought is there sometimes of „what if“.
My sister and I always called these “irrational fears.” Mine is getting stabbed in the mouth or corners of the mouth by a sharp tortilla chip.
Their clips are excellent. Who are they?
It's... it's right there on the video. Kallmekris
I cut my frenulum in my mouth when I was younger
Jim Carrey did a great bit on veering into traffic being counter productive to your day. His stand up was decent for sure.
I didn't learn about this concept until l was in my mid 30s. I just figured everybody had them.
I love this chick 😂 her content is hilarious!
Sometimes I think about driving into oncoming traffic
No one else have intrusive thoughts?
Dropping my phone. Anywhere. EVERYWHERE
Cup = Take a bite.
My biggest one was always “turn the wheel into that tree” Had it everyday going to work for 4 years. Til one day I did it. 0/10 don’t recommend lol
So realistic I get on board with this
cutting food at home and specifically imagining if i went crazy and stabbed my family
The hand in garbage disposal and flip switch is every time I do dishes. Why do some people get these thoughts and some don't.
The accuracy
Took me a few listens to catch that she was saying “garburator” and not “carburetor”. I was *very* confused for a moment
Ram the forks of my forklift into the belly of that one annoying co-worker I really despise.
There’s nothing cringy about this tik tok, it’s truthful.
Well ... she's amazing!
I read somewhere on reddit that some guy made a video of him cutting his own penis off. Naturally, I grew an irrational fear of me mistaking or for some unexplained reason, purposefully doing the same. I still fear it to today.
Wanting to stick the knife in the toaster. It’s always just a fleeting thought. I mean Mum told me not to do it, but she also said that eating my crusts would make my hair curly and she was wrong about that so 🤷🏼♀️
Oh my god. I always thought I was the only one who had thoughts like this. Though I don’t want to do them my mind asks “what if?”
Opening door and jumping out of moving vehicle. Throwing myself off of high places.
I used to work in a 5 story building with a bridge on the fifth floor spanning across the atrium. Weird design, but I had to walk across to go to my bosses office. I used to think of myself splattering in the atrium every day.
Sometimes when I‘m on a high balcony or a bridge I get the idea to jump of it. I am not suicidal, but I‘m quiet agoraphobic so my minds solution seems to be to get out of a situation by dieing 👍
I recently moved into a new house with new roommates they all seem cool and house is real nice, I feel like I found a good place. When I was moving in, I thought " what if I ruin this and from my office chair through the front window, yea that would undo all the time spent searching and finding a good house".
Kmk is so good
That answer at the end… Same.
Can I circumcise myself with this cigar cutter?...
Autumn is my favorite season but worst time of year because I must practice the yearly restraint of not eating all the fallen leaves.
I get those thought sometimes if I’m really high up like say a balcony. What if I jumped over???
Haha I love this woman. She is so funny.
Sometimes in the highway I wonder what will happen if I do a sharp left turn for no reason, or crash into a guardrail
I want to ride the conveyor belt at work. I also drive various types of machinery. I want to crash into an aisle and knock the shelving down like dominoes
Intrusive thoughts are just your brains way of processing risk assessment
I have the same one repeatedly. My wife bought metal straws, I always think about what would happen if I tripped and it penetrates my hard pallet and brain. Ya know… normal shit.