I have them all the time, just wondering if there’s any sane people out there that have relatively normal thoughts on a day to day basis.

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    7 days ago

    The people who say they don’t experience intrusive thoughts are liars. They are too anxious about how the world would react if they told anyone they sometimes think about jumping off a roof, or driving into oncoming traffic.

    The people who don’t actually have intrusive thoughts are psychopaths. Lacking empathy, they don’t even consider how such actions would affect anyone around them. They do, or do not, as they choose.

    The healthiest are the people who recognize in themselves behaviors they don’t observe in their peers, and they are concerned enough for everyone’s safety to risk being seen as abnormal.

    There is a difference between “intrusive thought” and “suicidal/homicidal ideation”. Experiencing these ideas as irresistible urges to partake in the behaviors might warrant a trip to a pshrink.

    Experiencing them as vivid scenes of violence and destruction, without a compulsion to actually act on them, is not unusual or concerning. They’re your own private action movies; Enjoy them.